In selecting your provider of Technology Executive Search and Assessment services, does your company apply the same criteria as it does for all of its other procurement activities or does it have specific criteria that address the rapidly evolving Technology sector?
Often the process of getting the right people employed into the right jobs at the right time to achieve operational objectives has lagged behind because the yearly budget process gets finalized too late.
It has become a common misconception that the advent of Social Networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook has eliminated or reduced the need for professional Executive Search services.
Staying on top of technology is the only way that the vast pools of information that the Internet and Social Networks provide can be rendered coherent and useful in the search for leadership candidates.
One of our partners has had the unique experience of rotating more than once between Senior Executive positions in the high-tech industry and the Executive Search and Assessment field, and he gives some insights on this subject.
With the Coronavirus spreading all over the world, it is essential to start applying alternative solutions to carry on our daily routines. Even locked in their houses, many people keep on actively looking for a job opportunity or want to recruit someone to fill their open positions. That’s why never like during these times, remote interviews have acquired a crucial role.
In this interview, conducted by Dale Zupsansky - Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief at Hunt Scanlon Media our MD Raffaele Jacovelli shares the value add of working with a search firm, points out the differences between a boutique and generalist firm, and describes his firms “glocal” approach to recruiting
With all of the traditional recruitment tools available today along with in-house recruitment organisations, why should a company pay an up-front fee to a search firm to help them fill a position?
There is no question that internal recruitment organisations can be effective at high volume recruiting. Moreover many of them get help from so called e-Researchers who solicit cv's from a large population of potential candidates and pass them on to client companies.
The world of Executive Search and Assessment has changed. These days Clients require a variety of additional and complementary services, provided on increasingly flexible terms from their chosen Search firm.
Among the growing concerns of our clients has been diversity and parity at senior levels of management. This has been fostered by pressure from organizations themselves and from legislators in several countries. At Hightech Partners we have seen these concerns emerge in the technology sector across Europe.
