The Ten Things You Can Expect From a Top Search Consultant

by John O. Burdett

“BRAND means Better Results And No Disappointment.”

There is no shortage of search consultants. The challenge? Sorting the wheat from the chaff. When hiring a key executive can mean betting the farm, you don’t need a “trusted advisor.” You need a masterful partner prepared to get into the trenches with you.

In The Ten Things You Can Expect from a Top Search Consultant, John O. Burdett explores what sets the true search professional apart – from asking great questions, to business intelligence, marketplace mastery, making attraction matter, measuring culture, developing a scorecard, building future-oriented leadership competencies, team fit, and ensuring that the candidate hits the ground running.

Executive search is strategic. Always. Merely replacing the most recent occupant of the role is a mandate for mediocrity. The right candidate is, at a minimum, a strategic fit for the emerging culture, the results demanded, future-oriented leadership competencies, and the team’s future needs. When search is treated as a commodity, you significantly increase the risk of a miss hire and, at the same time, dramatically reduce the number of top candidates who will be willing to pursue the opportunity.

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Contents:

  1. Business intelligence
  2. Marketplace mastery
  3. Make attraction matter
  4. Measure culture
  5. Build a simple scorecard
  6. Develop leadership competencies
  7. Orchestrate team fit
  8. Ensure that the candidate hits the ground running
  9. Asks great questions
  10. Listens, listens, listens

This article is an extract of content © Orxestra® Inc. The download is available from the TRANSEARCH International website.

John O. Burdett is founder of Orxestra® Inc. He has extensive international experience as a senior executive. As a consultant he has worked in more than 40 countries for organisations that are household names. John has worked on organisation culture for some of the world's largest organisations. His ongoing partnership with TRANSEARCH International means that his thought leading intellectual property, in any one year, supports talent management in many hundreds of organisations around the world. Get in touch with John O. Burdett »

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