When unemployment is as low as it is now, hiring often proves challenging. It’s particularly challenging for those in specialized fields like IT or data science. And it’s even more of a challenge to find executive and C-level talent in specialized and technical fields. Fortunately, these issues are not without solutions. In fact, an effective solution to… Read more »

There have been some major paradigm shifts in the way that hiring at the executive and C-level is done. The importance of culture fit and emotional intelligence are now highly considered, for instance. There’s also the trend of prioritizing potential over experience. Which can be a good thing, for some situations. However, it can also… Read more »

For decades, some nearly ubiquitous hiring principles, practices, and precepts regarding what to look for in a candidate, and what to look out for, have been considered commonplace.There are features of their background, history, and experience that—whether it’s for sales and marketing roles or the emergence of positions in the fast-growing ecommerce arena—ecommerce recruitment specialists… Read more »

When leading businesses look for top talent to fill their executive and C-level positions, they often utilize professional executive recruiters. They do so because these recruiters have the connections, insights, relation ships, and expertise to match the top candidates with the top positions. Recruiting at the executive level is demanding, difficult work that requires the… Read more »

Our biases are unavoidable. We evolved to have them, making them a hardwired feature of who we are. That’s not an entirely bad thing. Pattern seeking and behavior recognition allowed us to survive and can still alert us to high-risk or dangerous situations. On the other hand, our bias can also be responsible for irrational… Read more »

Recruiting is an incredibly important factor in any business’s success or failure. Companies that focus on a recruiting strategy as earnestly and consistently as they focus on advertising and sales, do better than those that don’t. That seems to be the case whether the focus is the CPG industry or data science and analytic recruiting…. Read more »