Leadership Hiring Strategies

Just a decade ago or so, organizations had only a few options when it came to hiring senior leaders and professionals. For the most part they could use internal recruiters, external headhunters, newspapers or employee referral. The late 1990s gave birth to the large Internet job board. From there, specialized websites emerged that focused exclusively on six figure hires. More recently, hiring managers are exploring the use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools. But traditional or new, which of these alternatives works best? Which delivers the best candidates at the lowest cost and requires the least investment of time on your part?

And at a high level - what about the 100k+ hiring segment. How large is it? How important is it? Does one solution fit all or should organizations now dedicate a specialized solution to this category.

Join us as we unveil new HCI research into 100k+ Hiring. We'll share the results of our survey and interviews in which hundreds of recruiters shared their experiences with traditional and new recruiting tools. You'll learn what's best, what's most promising and which methods deliver the best bang for the buck.

All participants will receive a copy of "$100K+ Recruiting: What's Working and Why." A new HCI "How to" white paper based on hundreds of survey responses and interviews. more »

Succession management best practices suggest that the appropriate balance between hiring leaders should be 70% internal and 30% external. Leadership readiness programs, however, have suffered in the recession and been traditionally disparate from recruiting and retention activities. Talent acquisition teams, meanwhile, often lack visibility into the development pipeline at an organization.

It seems only natural that the two should partner; the leadership hiring team is great at identifying talent and the leadership development staff excels at bringing out potential in talent. How can your organization remove talent management silos and forge a connection between the teams of hiring and developing? With stakes like the high costs of re-recruiting, knowledge loss and executive turnover, it's critical to master now. more »

The economic recession spotlights how critical hiring and retaining the best leadership talent is to an organization. The financial meltdown, perhaps, could have been prevented had executives at the Wall Street banks demanded stronger corporate governance and led with sharper business acumen.

Clearly, recruiting the right leaders is paramount to the success, or failure, of any organization. Yet executive recruiting at many companies is still run like the good ol' boys club: the focus is on who you know rather than what you know. How can today's recruiters ensure the best leadership is hired? more »

Top business schools share a common mission: producing educated and innovative leaders equipped to manage even the most challenging of today's organizational issues. The best have even turned the traditional silo approach on its head to a curriculum of multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial-style management functions.

Is it possible to hire great young leaders from global business schools? Yes. In this webcast we'll hear from innovative employers who have devoted part of their recruitment efforts to capturing the best and brightest emerging graduates. more »