The Secrets of Executive Search: Professional strategies for managing your personal job search

by Robert M. Melancon

Book Description: The Secrets of Executive Search Professional Strategies for Managing Your Personal Job Search is an insiders look at those secrets and strategies that seasoned executive search professionals around the world employ to ensure the success of their referrals. It features insider tips on how to properly package your background and experience, how to market that package most effectively, and how to separate yourself from the competition.

In the absence of your own personal career management consultant, Secrets can serve as your virtual coach. Its objective is to help you work smarter and more confidently, while avoiding the mistakes and miscues that cause so many other candidates to “come in second.” By putting these secrets to work on your behalf, your career will not only be destined for the right track, but also for the fast track!

Winning the Talent Wars

by Bruce Tulgan

Book Description: “Every page will grab you and change your thinking…great solutions to the greatest business challenge in the new economy.”
—Douglas McCracken, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Consulting

“Tulgan artfully blends timely insights with innovative solutions from the world’s best companies…a whole new perspective.”
—Terrence R. Ozan, Group Managing Director, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

Recruit & Retain The Best

by Ray Schreyer, John Lewis, Jr. McCarter

Book Description: The signs on the road to the new economy point to an all-out war for talent. Organizations increasingly encounter difficulties in recruiting and retaining top talent because they have yet to deal with today’s most critical human resource issues. To remain competitive, you must create a talent powered company consisting of highly motivated, skilled, and loyal employees. That’s the central message in Recruit and Retain the Best.

Two of America’s leading recruitment specialists cut through the clutter and confusion as they identify the key human resource strategies for creating a talent powered company. Focusing on five competencies for predicting success, they dispel numerous myths and specify what HR professionals and hiring managers need to do in order to energize their human resources and productivity. They provide a critical examination of the latest in effective recruitment methods, from the use of Internet recruiting to developing employee referral programs.

Talent powered companies not only recruit the best, they also retain the best through several employee-centered strategies. They focus on ten building blocks: · Treat the workplace as a system · Promote ethics, integrity, honesty, and trust · Create organizational feedback loops · Put people first · Instill an ethic of fairness · Accept diversity · Encourage openness · Make work and the workplace fun · Develop employee connectivity · View people management as a strategic business issue As the authors point out, smart managers not only identify and hire talented people based upon specific competencies; they also inspire a diverse and able staff to achieve their very best. In the end, creating a talent powered organization by hiring and retaining the best is all about putting your employees first.

The Global 200 Executive Recruiters: An Essential Guide to the Best Recruiters in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America (Jossey Bass)

by Nancy Garrison Jenn

Book Description: “The Global 200 Executive Recruiters is another proof of Nancy Garrison Jenn’s in-depth knowledge of the world’s executive recruitment market. Though interesting for recruiting companies to learn about their sector and their competitive position, the book is particularly of help to their clients and potential clients in assessing executive search firms and the recruiters with those firms. The Global 200 provides very useful and detailed information regarding recruiters and their expertise, both in terms of business sector specialization, as well as local, regional or global orientation. It is an excellent guide for both smaller companies and larger corporations on their path to find the executive talent they need to build a sustainable competitive edge.”
—Dick Buschman, Managing Partner Korn/Ferry Amsterdam