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Struggling to Recruit Executives on LinkedIn It’s a Feature, Not a Bug

Struggling to Recruit Executives on LinkedIn? It’s a Feature, Not a Bug.

Corporate executive search has reached a breaking point. Boards and CEOs are drowning in a sea of AI-generated applications while candidates, feeling the pressure of a stagnant market, apply to thousands of jobs at companies they rarely hear back from. Undergirding this chaos is a platform never designed for precision matching. To make executive search easier, you must first recognize that the tools you’ve been told to trust are designed to keep you inside a “walled garden,” not to help you find the right leader.

3 Questions Not to Ask Search Firms (And What to Ask Instead)

3 Questions Not to Ask Search Firms (And What to Ask Instead)

If you are shopping for an executive search firm to conduct a high-stakes senior-level search, be cautious of “cookie-cutter” selection questions used to screen recruitment firms you’re considering. These lists are rarely objective. Most are designed by large retained firms to favor their specific business model—framing their structural limitations as client benefits.