Search Firms Cautious About Expanding Staff Amid Economic Uncertainty

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: execunet, executive recruiters, joseph daniel mccool, search firms, search firm hiring index

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While economists debate the strength of the US economy and employers continue to express caution about new executive hiring, executive search firms are likewise adopting a "wait and see" approach when it comes to expanding their own recruiting and research teams, according to ExecuNet's latest Search Firm Hiring Index data.

Published on: Friday, August 27, 2010

Employers Moving More Cautiously on Executive Hiring

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: leadership, executive recruiters, joseph daniel mccool, the economy, search firms, business confidence, recruiter confidence index, hiring, executive employment market

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Slower hiring by companies – even when they have vacant leadership roles – has dampened executive recruiters' confidence in overall management hiring activity through the end of the year.

In August, ExecuNet's benchmark Recruiter Confidence Index revealed that 46 percent of 181 responding executive recruiters are "confident" or "very confident" the executive employment market will improve over the next six months, down four points from July and the first index reading below 50 percent since October 2009.

Published on: Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Personal Reinvention

Posted By: David Topus
Filed Under: job search, david topus, reinvention, career change, reinventing

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People think about the matter of "reinventing" themselves as some kind of epic event – that it takes great planning, preparation and courage to become something new. But, no matter where you are, and no matter what you're doing now, if you look back over your life you will see that you have reinvented yourself multiple times along the way in order to get where you are right now. In fact, you reinvent yourself every day, every time you do something new. And most of the time you probably don't even realize consciously that you're doing it.

How many times have you been given an assignment from your boss to take on a project you've never done before? Probably often, and yet each time you will have to figure it out for the first time. That means reinventing yourself into that capability.

Published on: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Management Today is Outdated

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world innovation forum, robyn greenspan, execunet, leadership, innovation, strategy, expert insight, ceo, management, gary hamel

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Why have there been advances in virtually every technology invented in the last 100 years, yet management is woefully out of date? At the 2009 World Business Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported, strategist and innovator Gary Hamel asked the delegates, "Could technology management change in this century the way it changed in the last century? Almost all organizations are running on 19th century management systems."

Management was created, the author and co-founder of the Management Innovation Lab at the London Business School said, to "get people to show up every day and do the same job over and over again like robots."

Published on: Friday, August 20, 2010

Do the Impossible - Ignore the Lizard

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world innovation forum, robyn greenspan, innovation, marketing, seth godin, cmo

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"Innovation means doing stuff that is impossible, otherwise people would have done it already," said author and marketing expert Seth Godin at the 2010 World Innovation Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported for attendees.

Marketing, Godin said, has largely been about advertisers trying to figure out ways to get consumers to buy more, and, while never a great approach, that is even less effective now. "Mass marketing is to bombard people over and over again. That model — 'I'm going to interrupt my way to success' — is flawed and will stress you out."