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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 I share on this webs…

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…

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…

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…

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 offers r…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 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 …

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…

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…