by John G. Self | Feb 21, 2012 | Recruiting
Candidates complain about recruiters – how they do not communicate effectively, how they do not provide real transparency, how they gloss over critical cultural, political and operational issues because to acknowledge them would complicate the search, or because the...
by John G. Self | Dec 13, 2011 | Recruiting
Video Summaries of your search firm’s recommended candidates can help organizations avoid a costly leadership miss-hire; not video conferencing, which is widely overused in executive search, but edited video summaries of your recruiter’s in-depth face-to-face...
by John G. Self | Nov 15, 2011 | Recruiting
As the business climate experiences dramatic changes in our new normal economy, one industry will face dramatic upheaval: executive search. The record of the executive search industry is mediocre even under the best of economic conditions. The time has come for...
by John G. Self | Oct 28, 2011 | Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
I have always believed that a good leader is a work of art, and that a bad leader is a tragedy — for the organization and for the people with whom they interact. There are far too many leaders who cannot see beyond their own office. They do not engage...
by John G. Self | Aug 20, 2011 | Healthcare, Recruiting
There are four critical questions I believe that physicians should ask before submitting to the wooing calls of a recruiter. I need to disclose that I began my search career recruiting physicians. Secondly, while I no longer recruit physicians strictly for clinical...
by John G. Self | Aug 16, 2011 | Recruiting
Employees cherish a gross sense of entitlement in the form of their annual performance review and the almost certain yearly raise. In many organizations, this “right” extends to the very job itself, regardless of performance or economic conditions....
