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The Elephant in the Recruiting Room

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

what happens to recruiting when there's no-one to recruit

What happens to recruiting when there is no-one to recruit? In another 12 years, says a global survey, the world will be missing more than 85 million skilled workers.  That’s more than the current population of Germany. The survey is the most recent of Korn Ferry’s “Future of Work” series. It’s one of many recently […]

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting

Storm Clouds Gathering for Recruiters?

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

Recruiters facing a "perfect storm"

The world has become less friendly to recruiters in recent months. Surveys have singled out many and growing challenges facing those who search to find top talent in virtually any field. Allegis Group, a $2B giant in the field, put it in memorable terms a few days ago in the new 2018 Global Workforce Trends […]

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting Tagged With: executive search, recruiters, retained search

You Can’t Change the Result Without Doing Something Different

Laura Di Tomasso of Cornerstone Coaching

Feeling like you are one of many, no way to see a path to a more strategic role from where you find yourself. You know you are not completely fulfilled in your career. You pick a direction, any direction to find an alternative to the track you are on. This leads you to begin interviewing, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Life lessons

How Neuroscience Enhances Executive Coaching

Deb Elbaum

  By Deb Elbaum, PCC, CNTC Editor’s Note:  Deb introduces a new weekly series of posts on executive coaching contributed by our Leadership Development team..  She is one of 30 highly qualified and specialized executive coaches who have joined us recently, as we continue to expand our executive coaching services.” When coaching executives and leaders, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: executive coaching, neuroscience

Have Quotas Put More Women On Boards?

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

career woman on board of directors

With International Women’s Day approaching March 8, the latest Economist has a timely look at the progress made by women joining corporate boards in the last decade. It was 10 years ago that Norway decreed that 40% of the directors of listed companies must be women. At the time, the percentage in major countries was […]

Filed Under: Blog, Gender diversity Tagged With: women in business, women leaders, women on boards

The Transformation of the Workplace

Cornerstone International Group

Workplace transformation leads to generational diversity

Transformation of the workplace has made it the most diverse in history in generational terms. In a survey a few years ago Trinet, a provider of HR solutions, pointed out that the workplace is now populated by four generations of workers with the latest 20-year-old working alongside colleagues 50 years older. This is not that […]

Filed Under: Blog, Workplace

How’s Your Recruitment Marketing Coming Along?

Cornerstone International Group

recruitment marketing the old way

So, you up to speed with your recruitment marketing ? If you are not keeping up, that buzz phrase of 3-4 years ago has become a central element in adapting to the rapidly changing talent acquisition market. A recent survey by the Brandon Hall Group (10,000 global clients) indicates 40% of organizations regard a fully […]

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting Tagged With: recruitment

Should Recruiters Worry about Gender Diversity?

Cornerstone International Group

Does it matter if the new CEO is a man or a woman? Not to the people who put her there. And in most high-level searches that would include the recruiting firm. Executive search companies, particularly those known as retained search firms, earn their fees by finding the best candidate available. Not the best man, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Gender diversity Tagged With: executive search, gender diversity, women leaders

Does Losing a Top Candidate Worry You? It Should.

Cornerstone International Group

Star candidates

  There is no shortage of words about how to hire top talent – the best of the best. And there are plenty of cautionary tales about the picking the wrong one – the many thousands lost when the hire doesn’t turn out as expected. But there is really very little dealing with a different […]

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting Tagged With: Star candidates

Yes, A Bad Candidate Experience Really Does Hurt You

Cornerstone International Group

Here’s something you already know about recruiting.  Whether you hire the candidate or not (especially not), how he or she reacts to the experience matters a lot. The more difficult it gets to secure high-level/high quality talent, that interaction becomes more and more critical for two basic reasons. You miss an opportunity. Candidates have become […]

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: candidate experience

You Can Tweet Your Way Into A Job. Or Out Of One

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

social media twitter

One person who might claim to have tweeted himself into a job is US President Donald Trump. Now famous for (among other things) his distrust of almost any form of organized media, Trump counts on social media to tell his version of life directly to supporters. Socialbakers, a global social media analytics company, last month […]

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting

Are You Hiring for One Year Or 10?

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

Kenworth and Executive Search

What does a truck have to do with hiring the best people? Plenty.

Filed Under: Blog, Recruiting

Can You Teach Strategic Leadership?

Cornerstone International Group

Strategic leaders are hard to find, but you need them

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: strategic leaderhip

Women In Business – Still A Rocky Path

Cornerstone International Group

We’ve just marked International Women’s Day and wouldn’t it be nice if we could celebrate increased diversity in business leadership? We can if we really think 3% an improvement.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: women in business

Recruiting Content: the Long Way to the Best Result

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Recruiting Content infographic

Content Marketing is a big deal. Small wonder, then, that it no longer sells just products and services, but people. Recruiting content is the new buzz-phrase in the hiring business.

Filed Under: Blog

The Resurrection of Recruiting

Cornerstone International Group

  A recent U.S. survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that among those who have looked for a job during the last two years, 90% went online to search and 84% applied that way. There’s more.  Of that 90% who went online, 34% considered it their most important resource.  And among millennials (age 18-29), […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: resurrection of recruiting

Take Control of Your Employer Brand

Cornerstone International Group

The term “Employer Brand” is a comparatively recent arrival. But, for many organizations, it has become critical very quickly.

Filed Under: Blog

LIFE SCIENCE PRACTICE GROUP LAUNCHES IN CHINA

Cornerstone International Group

Shanghai, CH, October 20, 2015 –  Cornerstone International Group has established a new Health and Life Science Practice Group serving its seven member locations in China and Taiwan. The team leader is Dominic Yim, a seasoned executive with 20 plus years as corporate executive in the medical device industry, the last five years in executive […]

Filed Under: Blog, Life Science & Health, Press Releases

“Thanks. I’m happy where I am.”

Cornerstone International Group

talent management is becoming more difficult in workplace

Guess what contributes to the management talent shortage? Employees don’t WANT to be managers. Employers are no longer counting on a nice, full pipeline of managerial talent waiting for the chance to move onto the executive floor.   There’s a talent shortage, right? Most of that time, we blame that shortage on demographics and the global […]

Filed Under: Articles of Interest Tagged With: talent shortage

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