Category: Interviews

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The Hiring Game: One More Secret

Turns out just when I thought I knew many of the tricks of the trade in the world of executive search consultants (also known as headhunters), one more tip crossed my radar.

While meeting this week about a very interesting corporate global role with a San Francisco firm (more on the opportunity in an upcoming post), I got to also shoot the quick breeze (time is, in this business, money if you’ve got a full slate of searches) with a couple of senior consultants about a headhunter’s life.… Read the rest

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3 Easy Ways to a Great Start in the New Job

Two conversations with two people last week, each with a new job; one was ecstatic, the other terrified.

There are three things you can do to get off to a great start with a new job. This post tells you about them.

Despite  advice, people don’t always leverage the interviewing process to collect the type of information that fuels a good starts with the new role.… Read the rest

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Should You Hire Your Own Boss and Other Mistakes

Like dipping into the summer water of Northern California (Wow! Pretty cold!) if you’re teaching someone to swim in the San Francisco Bay, I spend time for the executive and career coaching part of my work with recruiters, executive search consultants, and sometimes applying for jobs.

How else to know how the job market works if you don’t experience it first hand?… Read the rest