Acquiring senior-level recruits might feel like a transaction: you pinpoint a candidate, make an offer, negotiate the deal, and close. If so, it’s a transaction on the most human possible level. For that reason, you’ve got to create comfort—or risk […]
Every so often, a company needs to take stock and examine its values. As MJS Executive Search edges closer to our 10th anniversary, we wanted to see if we were on target with ours. So we took our current values […]
Last Thursday, we launched a new group on LinkedIn, and we’re excited to tell you about it. It’s called Transformational Talent, and it’s a global network dedicated to the re-imagination of business worldwide. As corporate America continues to shrink, there […]
In a world of tightened regulations in finance and other sectors, retained executive search remains a largely unregulated zone. Although there are guidelines from the AESC, our leading trade organization, there is nothing to require search firms like us to […]
Where stakes are highest, it’s even more crucial that your candidate fit in: culturally and personality-wise. Our clients have rolled out DISC assessments, Myers-Briggs indicators, Enneagrams, and other diagnostic tools dating back to the mid 20th century—and administering them to potential Presidents, CMO’s Directors/VPs of Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, and the like.
As a retained executive search firm in a rapidly shifting digital age, we are often asked where social media fits in. Questions we hear include: Should the ability to create, manage, and execute social media programs and campaigns fall into […]
You’re looking to retain a new executive search firm. You meet a recruiter while networking, and you take that as a sign. He or she is with a reputable firm, and seems professional, knowledgeable, and aggressive. So you seal the […]
In the world of retained executive search, the accepted protocol is clear. Posting or socializing active search listings is a major no-no. Why? One perception is that it’s easier to post a search than to work one’s network…and therefore lazier. Another […]
It’s triathlon season, and to me, there’s no better allegory for executive recruiting. As I prep and train for two upcoming Olympic distance triathlons (2012 Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon on June 24, followed by the 2012 Aquaphor New York City Triathlon […]
Retained search firms always partner with their clients to search for candidates on their behalf, interviewing them before they do, and then presenting only the top candidates. Over my 17-year career as a retained search consultant, I’ve created a list […]