One would think that in a time of tough-ish, tight-ish global markets, where GREAT executive positions with fantastic companies, excellent prospects, and wonderful career challenges are not exactly hanging on trees, that executive candidates would be lining up with tongues hanging out, desperate to sign on the dotted line when a really GOOD opportunity arises. [...]

Let’s face it – making the wrong appointment at any level is costly and frustrating. But at a senior management or executive level, the wrong person in the wrong job in the wrong company is just….well….VERY wrong! Which everyone realises, hence the laborious rounds of interviews, the psychometric assessments, the risk profiling, the reference checking, [...]

It’s my first blog of 2012, and I was hoping to start on a relaxed note, with a light topic such as ‘Executive Summaries are a waste of time in CV’s’ or ‘What to wear at the 12th interview with the same company’ – BUT, with all the heavy news around, it’s hard to keep [...]