What You Need to Know About Executive Recruiting
1/13/202628 min
Professional search firms play a big role in discovering and choosing leaders for senior roles. That’s why anyone with C-suite ambitions needs to understand the recruiting process and what these evaluators are looking for. Mark Thompson, chairman of the Chief Executive Alliance, and Byron Loflin, global head of board advisory at Nasdaq, explain the ins and outs of recruitment, how to develop your narrative and navigate formal assessments and reference checks, and the best ways to build ongoing relationships. Thompson and Loflin are authors of the HBR article "How to Stand Out to C Suite Recruiters" and the book CEO Ready: What You Need to Know to Earn the Job and Keep the Job.
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First 90 secondsAlison Beard· Host0:00
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Adi Ignatius· Host0:51
And I'm Adi Ignatius, and this is the HBR Idea Cast.
Alison Beard· Host0:54
[upbeat music] Adi, so many of our listeners, many people who read HBR, who go to business school, are or have aspirations to be senior leaders in their organizations, maybe the C-suite, maybe they even wanna be CEO someday, and that, of course, means building a resume that will impress a lot of stakeholders. But one increasingly important group is executive recruiters.
Adi Ignatius· Host1:24
Look, I, I co-ran HBR for a long time, and, you know, we're a different organization from a lot of corporate entities out there, but