Executive hiring can be such a long drawn out affair. For instance there are the endless referrals (that usually are not even close to the profile), the pre-screened resumes to review, the pulling together of interview panels, candidate follow-up. The list goes on and on.

But most often hiring managers aren’t able to clearly articulate their executive hiring requirements succinctly and clearly. Therefore, filling the executive role takes that much longer. And, in the majority of cases the person hired rarely fits all of the original job description criteria. I’ve basically told hiring managers, “You said you wanted a ‘race horse’, yet you hired a ‘Camel?” Read more…