News & Insights

This past month, Recruiting Trends ran a two-part series authored by Carl Kutsmode on measurement and the best – and worst – ways to go about evaluating the effectiveness of your talent acquisition function. The articles examined data from a recent TalentRISE and Illinois Institute of Technology survey.  When asked about  measurement methods, respondents’ answers ran the […]

The Arthur Andersen Alumni Newsletter recently published an article on the critical role relationships play when selecting an executive search firm. That comes through, loud and clear, in the latest TalentRISE 2014 Recruiting Innovations and Best Practices Survey. Conducted with technical assistance from the Illinois Institute of Technology, the survey shows that the top reason […]

Are Talent Acquisition Departments wishing for something they already have? That’s certainly something that an article, recently published on the ERE.net website, speculates. Using data drawn from our recent survey, our article analyzes the answers when we asked survey respondents one particularly revealing question: “If you had unlimited resources and dollars to invest, what would you invest […]

Onboarding not Working? Learn from your Offboarding Practices. A feature article in this month’s Workforce Solutions Review (a publication of IHRIM, the International Human Resource Information Management association) by Gayle Norton discusses how lessons learned from exit interviews can inform and improve onboarding programs. Interested in learning more about how to promote employee engagement, retention and productivity? […]

The International Association of Coaching (IAC) just published my article titled, “How Coaches and Recruiters Can, Together, Protect Our Clients’ Investment – A Headhunter’s Perspective on the Value Coaches Provide”. In the piece, I discuss the expensive challenge of keeping newly hired executives…and what to do about it.  One very viable approach is coaching during the onboarding […]

A recent article in the International Association of Coaches newsletter, The Voice, by J. James O’Malley offers our perspective on “How Coaches and Recruiters Can, Together, Protect Our Clients’ Investment”.  Please link here for the entire article.

Recently published in the National ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives) Consultants’ Forum, newsletter, this article answers the question, “Why are some healthcare consultants more successful than others?”  Having worked in executive search consulting for more than 20 years, I agree that the difference between an average consultant and a great one can be hard […]

The latest issue of the Chicago Chapter of ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives) newsletter includes an article on how to get the most out of working with an external executive search provider. The eight tips range from budget-setting to background checking – and all are key to ensuring you get the maximum impact from […]

This month’s Consulting Magazine features an article by Jim O’Malley, “Executive On-Boarding: Protecting Your Company’s Investments.” Read the article here.

The Andersen Alumni newsletter, in its most recent issue, published an article on “The Myths and Realities of Recruitment” authored by J. James O’Malley. In it, Jim covers – and busts – the prevailing myths about recruitment held by leaders at professional services firms. These myths, contends Jim, can have a lasting negative impact on […]