This is third in a series related to clients I learn from and admire. Mike Klockenga is the President/Owner of Progressive Electric in Lincoln. I have known Mike since 1990 when we both worked for Sundstrand Aerospace (now Hamilton Sundstrand). Mike was a Plant Manager for Sundstrand in York, Nebraska and I reported to him [...]
Rosemary Hook, Director of Executive Recruitment for Salvatore Balistreri Consulting, an Austin based executive search firm, is a guest blogger who makes a great point that there are executives out there (either laid off or put on the shelf internally by companies) who can rise up again. Well said! Where Corporate Executives and Olympians [...]
As an executive search firm in Austin that engages with many diverse candidates, we sometimes make honest mistakes. For example, this morning we had reached out to a candidate who we had already interviewed in May and we had rejected for an opportunity. My team did not document properly this information in our data base [...]
As an executive retained search firm in Austin, I would estimate that 60% of our candidates are actually "SKYPED" (free video interview discussions). I would also guess that 25% are interviewed in person with the remaining 15% over the phone. In my opinion, the best way to interview someone is definitely in person. However, sometimes [...]
As an Austin retained executive search firm, we have a fiduciary duty on behalf of our company clients to know when a candidate for a position will not work out in the end. In other words, when it becomes clear that you will not be able to help the client hire the candidate because of [...]
About 50% of my retained executive search practice is made up of long term clients in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha and Lincoln are usually not on everyone's top 5 places to live but it does offer a wonderful quality of life. In selling candidates on the Big Red State, I discuss the following positive [...]
As an Executive Search Firm based in Austin, Texas, I am often asked for references on an executive candidate that clients have a great deal of interest in and may offer the position to. As I have mentioned before, I learn a great deal from my clients. Vickey Thayer Kleinsmith, the former VP of Human [...]
This morning I sent a wonderful person some names of business people she may want to contact in the Austin community. This person is looking at a career change and is interested in pursuing networking referrals that will eventually lead to her next job. When I decide to help someone with networking referrals I try [...]
My Austin based executive search firm recently completed an important multiple search assignment for a valued client. We filled three crucial positions for them. My client suggested that I survey the candidates who had been hired about the executive search recruiting process (evaluating both the company and Salvatore Balistreri Consulting from the candidate's point of [...]
This is a continuing series about clients I learn from that have helped me become better at what I do as an Austin area Executive Search Firm owner. I am blessed with some wonderful, long term client relationships since I started in the Executive Search business in 1997. The first person I wrote about recently [...]
