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The Good Search CEO Krista Bradford is here to help make executive recruiting smarter, easier, and less stressful for you. Ms. Bradford digs deep to share leadership talent acquisition secrets and best practices. The Executive Search Blog features three special collections: Careers, Diversity Recruiting, and Executive Search.
- The Careers Collection is dedicated to career advice from executive recruiters themselves.
- The Diversity Recruiting Collection highlights the importance of diversity in executive search and shares diversity recruiting best practices.
- The Executive Search Collection features blog posts to help executive search firm selection and to share our executive recruiting best practices.
Best of Blog Posts
Meet AI: Your Next CEO
Meet AI: Your Next CEO Artificial Intelligence could become your next CEO. And if you follow the logic of what that really means, you might very well end up in the dystopian rabbit hole where I am today. As the Founder of The Good Search, I have recruited senior executives in technology since the da…
To Recruit Rock Stars, It Helps to Know Them
To Recruit Rock Stars, It Helps to Know Them Headhunters regularly say they recruit rock stars, but few know what that really means. The vast majority of executive recruiters have never known a single rock star. They haven’t a clue what it takes to perform at that level — at the very top…
What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs
What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs. You may wonder what a blog post entitled, “What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs” is doing in a blog about executive recruiting. Adoption is the reason I became a recruiter and the reason I became an investigative journalist — a story about The Good Searc…
Why Local Hiring Is More Important Than Ever with COVID-19
For Essential Leaders, Go Local Since COVID-19 arrived, it has created significant challenges for companies seeking leadership talent. Those challenges are making local hiring more important than ever before. The reason? The more the Novel Coronavirus mutates and then spreads (again) and the more th…
AI Executive Search: Recruit the Unrecruitable
The Secret to AI Executive Search Executive search is hard. Recruiting AI executives is even harder. That’s because there is a growing shortage of best-of-the-best Artificial Intelligence minds. That shortage has turned AI leadership compensation packages into wealth creation opportunities. Mi…
Top Executive Search Firms List | How to Build Your Own
Executive Search Firms Lists How to Build Your Own A trusted list of the best executive recruiting firms comes in handy whenever you have an important senior-executive opening but lack the right search firm to fill it. The are plenty of lists out there, but it is hard to determine which one off…
Why Executive Searches Fail
Why Headhunters Fail (Don’t Search With Your Eyes Closed) The reasons why executive searches fail are many. Some of the causes are out of your control, but there is something you can do to ensure important senior executive positions are filled. While social networks and software applications c…
Neurodiverse Candidates for Genius Hires
How to Recruit the Next Genius Imagine if you could recruit the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, both of whom are suspected of being neurodiverse on the autism spectrum. Recruiting the next genius isn’t as hard as one might think. But to hire candidates who think differently, you must recru…
AI Recruiting Tools No So Smart
Are AI Recruit Tools Worth the Hype? Algorithms, schmalgorithms — AI recruiting tools may be hurting a company’s ability to hire senior executives. The latest technology elixirs and outsourcing approaches are not designed to fix what is broken with hiring top leadership talent. In fact, …
When Do You Need an Executive Search Firm?
When to Use an Executive Search Firm You have a C-level executive opening. Your gut tells you a VP-level search will be incredibly hard to fill. Your startup has hit the hockey-stick inflection point in its growth and needs more experienced leadership to scale. Those are all good reasons to turn to …
What Executive Search Costs
Executive Search Firm Pricing Search firm pricing is a top concern of executive search buyers. Whenever employers have an important board or senior-level opening to fill, it is reasonable to ask, “What does an executive search cost?” Of course, there is no easy answer. it all depends on …
How to Recruit the Right Executive
How to Recruit the Right Executive Chief Executive Officers regularly grapple with how to recruit the right executive. I have recruited top executives and technologists for the past decade and a half. Over that same period of time, I have also made hires to my own team. I can tell you with absolute …
Client Blockage Cripples Executive Search
How Client Blockage Cripples Executive Search (And What to Do About It) Client Blockage Explained The world’s leading retained executive search firms have a client blockage problem. A big one. And that problem makes executive search buyers and the leading retained search firms a bit wary of on…
AI in Executive Search
AI in Executive Search is the Baseline Artificial Intelligence in executive search, by now, is a given. Siri. Alexa. Facebook. LinkedIn. Tesla. If you can name it, talk to it, search it, or drive it — AI is your co-pilot. Yes, it is omnipresent in business. The software we use and the social n…
Gender Diversity Documentary a Star-Studded Must-See
Star-Studded Must-See Gender Diversity Documentary If you haven’t yet watched the must-see gender diversity documentary This Changes Everything — currently streaming on Netflix — we recommend that you do so immediately. Like, stop reading right now and start viewing the documentary…
Covid Weirdness in the Not-So-New Normal
Executive Recruiting in the Ongoing New Normal Covid Weirdness in the Not-So-New Normal COVID-19 has forever changed business, and in turn, recruiting as we know it — and it is not done with us. How we find and recruit senior executives keeps mutating along with virus variants. Executive recru…
7 Warning Signs You Need a Retained Search Firm
Signs You Need a Retained Search Firm 7 Signs You Need Retained Search Retained executive search represents a significant investment. Executive search retainers start at $100 thousand per search engagement for the largest global retained executive search firms known as the Big Five (Korn Ferry, Russ…
Popular Pages
We also offer dedicated pages for some of the most commonly asked questions about executive search.
- What Top Executive Search Firms Lists Can You Trust? shares our analysis of 7 popular top search firms lists. We also tell you how to build your own top executive search firm list.
- Top Executive Search Firms in NYC reveals our list of retained executive search firms in the greater New York City area.
- What does executive search cost? addresses questions you may have about the pricing of executive recruiting services.
- What is the difference between contingency and retained search firms? details the differences between the two business models, and discloses the advantages of a third.
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