Ah, what a grand title for my last blog of the year! In the interests of transparency, let me contextualise my ‘world’ as: ‘the obsessive quest for executive and senior management level talent on behalf of corporates in desperate need of scarce skills’ (a relatively narrow world, but there you have it)! And my narrow [...]

My blog today started out on a very different subject – I was about to comment on another executive interviewing tip – which IS important, and could nail you the job (or be the nail in the coffin)….but in light of yesterday’s events in parliament seems utterly mundane and superficial! Yesterday, which will go down in [...]

I’ve been writing this blog for over a year, and during this period have commented on executive candidates, executive clients, executive interviews, executive  CV’s (snore), and although I continually have new and fascinating tidbits on these topics, I’ve decided to go for a radical change and talk this week about….executive headhunters!  Let’s be honest, it’s [...]

In the last few weeks, I’ve had some interesting feedback from candidates after their first, second, third (or in some cases sixth or seventh) interview with a prospective new employer…..along with a bit of a moan from them about ‘stuff’.  The ‘stuff’ includes such petrifying experiences as being kept waiting in the reception area before [...]

On Monday I returned from the IRC Global Executive Search Partners’ annual conference in Santiago all fired up and inspired from interesting discussions on ‘global best practice’ on the million and one things that we do as executive headhunters.  It was particularly good to note that as the (exclusive) South African partner to this global alliance, [...]

It’s been a heavy week or two of interviewing for some of our candidates, who are engaging on some top executive roles with prospective new employers. The employers (our clients) are trying hard to maintain the balance between ‘wooing’ the best people (our candidates), who are not actively looking for jobs and therefore require some [...]

I’ve been hearing for years about ‘Generation Y’, mostly from professionals who are members of ‘Generation X’, moaning and whining about the ‘poor work ethic’, the demands for ‘work life balance’ and the expectations regarding quick promotions (amongst other quirks) of their staff or team members who are in the ‘younger than 30’ age bracket. [...]

Of course you do!  And I’ve discovered that one of my greatest contributions to humanity (well, just the broader executive community) is as a source of information on packages. Or more accurately, I’m the person your brother, your cousin living in Joburg, or your old digs mate – all of whom are now relatively far [...]

It’s with all the noise on executive packages that has come about in our current ‘strike season’ (did you know, in South Africa, we apparently have 5 seasons….Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn and…Strike) that I thought to comment on an interesting angle to the usual boring chant about high executive packages.  So here is the interesting [...]

I usually blog about stuff that’s going on in the various industries we work in related to our executive clients and candidates, their career moving and grooving, and the trends associated with executive search….as I see them.  Well, not today folks….today I’m going to beat Jack’s drum a bit (I started to type ‘blow Jack’s [...]