If the unthinkable happens, if the “never has happened before” actually happens and the U.S. defaults on its debt, 640,000 jobs would vanish. That’s just one of the really bad things that centrist think tank The Third Way suggests will take place if our nation hits the legal limits of its debt. Of course, defaulting
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No Comments » Just as employers are finding is increasingly difficult to fill job openings, their own employees are thinking of leaving in droves. The results of a March 2011 Deloitte survey of 356 employees at large global companies indicates two out of every three employees are considering exiting, stage right. Among employees surveyed in March 2011, only
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Within each of us, in the collective unconscious, there lies a hero — an archetype that Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung believed lays dormant until called to action. Studying world mythology, Joseph Campbell built upon Jung’s work, discovering that no matter what the myth, a hero’s journey remains the same. All heroes must leave what is
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For Immediate Release The Good Search, LLC Named One of Connecticut’s Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses. Westport, CT: In recognition of the economic power of privately held businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading business-to-business internet site, has named The Good Search, LLC as one of the Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses in Connecticut – 2010. Companies on the
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Comments Off A fascinating piece in the Sacramento Bee made me think about how life for many executives these days is starting to mirror that of our Founding Fathers more than two centuries ago. Reporter Anita Creamer filed a report that examined the trends associated with “a growing cohort of boomerang commuters – baby boomers who are
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CEO searches are on the rise. That’s what we’re witnessing in our Board & CEO practice at The Good Search, a trend that Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting in a recent article, The Recession Is Gone, and the CEO Could Be Next. “After three years of declining turnover among CEOs, churn at the top is back.
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“The idea is to start befriending recruiters and developing relationships with influential people well before you need them, “ says Krista Bradford, a two-year IEEE member who runs Bradford Executive Research LLC, a technology-focused recruitment and research firm in Westport, Conn.
This is a post about intangibles. We once had a client ask for candidates who had “gravitas.” Come on. Gravitas? What is that, really? A kind of wine? A Greek side dish? Waiter, I’ll have the souvlaki with extra gravitas, parakalo. Where does one detail gravitas in a resume? Under accomplishments? References? Skills? In “The
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In the world of executive search, candidate slates often grow to six candidates or more, when research suggests that we should limit finalists to a number we can count on one hand — as in “eeny meeny miney”. Psychologist Barry Schwartz has conducted research that demonstrates abundance robs us of satisfaction. The research suggests we
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As I listened to Scott, it dawned on me that not only does it make sense for candidates that we recruit and for the recruiters themselves (the micro), but for search practices as a whole (the macro). In order to take talent acquisition to The Next Level, we not only must adopt new “best practices”, but we must also let go of what isn’t working.
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