The power of networking
For those of you who have been spending any significant time surfing the job boards may I suggest you stop and turn that energy to networking? I had the great pleasure of speaking with an old friend of mine some time ago (yes, most of my friends are old, but this one is actually just a little younger than I am). Anyway, this friend has been a retained recruiter for most of his career. He has been through the good times and the bad times. One of the topics we covered was how senior level executives tend to get their jobs. The astounding number he quoted me from a study he was sent was that only 2% of senior executives [ Read more… ]