📈 The numbers are in and the landscape of Q2 2023 witnessed a fascinating contrast between private equity and startup funding. While private equity experienced a slight decline in exits, startup funding faced its share of challenges. Let's check out the data from PitchBook and Crunchbase and look into the dynamics at play. 🔍📊 📉 According to a July 26 report by PitchBook, [...]
You’ve finally got your team assembled, working together productively and making you look real good. 🤚🏻Hold it. Operative phrase/concept – THEY are making YOU look good. So how do you keep this going? Through the years as a recruiter, I've witnessed and heard from financial professionals the impact that 👏 appreciation and edification can have on team morale and productivity. When leaders take [...]
🤝Big interview this week? Whether it’s a first with HR or a final with the CEO or Area Managing Partner, make sure you are prepared for all situations. 💡 Job interviews can be stressful, and it's normal to feel nervous. How about this one - what if you freeze up or draw a blank during the interview? Here are a few tips to [...]
So let’s start that job search. You’ve got an already busy executive schedule without a lot of extra time in your day. Where to begin and what to expect? 🕵️♂️ Job searching can be tough, especially for senior level executives. Based on what I hear and read, here are 4 of the hardest parts, along with some solutions: • Lack of transparency or [...]
Another workplace term for you this week. How about this one – fake flexibility. It’s a situation that I’ve bumped into a few times over the last month or so in sort of a bait and switch kind of way. Fake flexibility 🤦 is when companies offer employees the ability to work remotely or flexibly, but then make it difficult or impossible for [...]
How am I doing in my job? It's that time of year for many 📅 – performance reviews along with those awkward “career counseling” lunch meetings. How much do they actually help employees though? Performance reviews 📃 have been a staple of the workplace for decades, but their effectiveness has been called into question in recent years. A study by Gallup found that [...]
Is the white font technique the ultimate solution to get past ATS software and land your dream job? First – what is “white fonting”? This is the practice of placing keywords in the white spaces of a resume in a white font so they are not visible to the human eye, but they can be picked up by an ATS. This practice is [...]
Jump Start Your Career! 📈 Looking for ideas and angles to get ahead of the pack & advance your career? According to recent studies, 78% of professionals are looking to boost their careers this year. But where do you start? Let’s look at some ideas. 📈 1️⃣ Embrace Lifelong Learning 📚 Continuous learning is the key to staying relevant and adaptable in the [...]
Time to move on. You’ve navigated the interview process and accepted the offer. Now you must give your notice. How long should you make that notice period? NewCo wants you to start ASAP but you want to be professional and don’t want to leave your current teammates hanging. Let’s dive into the topic of notice periods and see what’s minimum, what's appropriate and [...]
🌟 Is the interview process starting to feel like an endless maze? 🤔 Stories are (once again) popping up about overextended hiring processes. A candidate told me this week about being in step 8 😮of an interview process wondering if they should withdraw. Sorry – with 30 years of recruiting experience - I feel pretty comfortable saying that any interview process that’s 8 [...]