As an Austin based, executive search firm owner, I travel to Omaha and Lincoln Nebraska about 4 times per year for business development opportunities. About 50% of my book of business comes from this part of the country and I am grateful for the long term relationships and friendships developed there since 1997. Recently we [...]
Our Director of Recruitment, Kira Pozehl, weighs in on how to be a great partner with the client and adding value to the hiring process. Well said Kira and thank you! Last year we were running a search that was at first, yielding mediocre results. Our client had a strong need for a local candidate. [...]
As a retained executive search firm here in Austin, we have an interview process that heavily relies on active listening. The candidate will tell you everything if you listen and then you can make the best assessment. Get them to do most of the talking. This is my method for getting candidates to do most [...]
As you can imagine, as a Retained Executive Search Firm in Austin, Texas, I certainly do my share of reading resumes. Recently I received a very cool resume that incorporated a very simple idea. The candidate included a company logo on the left-hand side of each firm she had worked for and for the universities she [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
