This guide is designed for businesses seeking professional assistance in filling key positions. Material is arranged by method of payment (retainer or contingency), by geographical area, and by alphabetical list of key principal officers of recruiting firms.
The famous Red Book is the authentic source job-seekers trust when making career moves. Published since '71 & updated annually by a full-time research staff, this definitive guide to working with "headhunters" profiles over 4,300 firms. Listings include full contact information with fax numbers, e-mail addresses & web sites. Recruiting firms are easily targeted by industry, management function & geographical areas in the detailed indexes. In addition, over 12,000 individual recruiters are grouped by their specialty niche areas, making it easy for users to find the right recruiter. A free CD-ROM is included with tips on making a career move & strategies for working with recruiters. Mentioned in The Kiplinger Washington Letter, Marilyn Mcats Kennedy's Career Strategies, National Business Employment Weekly, Forbes, What Color is Your Parachute?, Knock 'Em Dead & featured on CNBC. Called "The bible of the executive recruiting business," in Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine.
Known since 1971 as the "Red Book," The Directory of Executive Recruiters has been called "the bible" of the industry by CNBC and Sylvia Porter. It is the largest continuously updated recruiter database in the world. This jumbo hardcover edition is specially designed to help corporate buyers of search services make informed decisions on which recruiting firm would best suit their hiring needs. It is also useful to search providers for competitive intelligence, acquisitions, and partnerships. The Directory lists over 8,000 offices of 5,700 search firms in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and contain detailed information on each firm: street addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail and web addresses, plus function and industry specialties. It is comprehensively indexed by function, industry, specialty and geographic location. The unique specialty index has 565 niche categories with the names and company affiliations of over 14,000 recruiters. In addition, the Corporate Edition reports firm revenues, number of recruiters and year founded and lists full contact information for international branch offices. It also contains a key contact index. Introductory pages give expert advice to corporate hirers on choosing and using executive search firms. "The Directory of Executive Recruiters is one of the most popular reference books in libraries nationwide." -- Lynne M Oliver, Reference Librarian, Morris County (NJ) Library.
What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary careers—while others equally talented never reached their potential or aspirations? Jim Citrin and Rick Smith of Spencer Stuart, the world’s most influential executive search firm, set out to explore this question. The result—based on in-depth, original research—is sure to be the most important and useful book for anyone seeking to crack the code of how to build a rewarding, personally satisfying career. Like weather systems and financial markets, careers contain patterns. What Citrin and Smith found from their research and extensive experience is that people with extraordinary careers are guided by five straightforward patterns that can be harnessed and used by everyone. These individuals: • Understand the value of you by translating their knowledge and experience into action, building their personal value over each phase of their career • Practice benevolent leadership by not clawing their way to the top but by being carried there • Solve the permission paradox, the dilemma of not being able to get a job without experience and not getting the experience without the job • Differentiate using the 20/80 principle of performance by storming past their defined jobs to create breakthrough ideas and deliver unexpected impact • Do not micromanage their careers, but macromanage them by gravitating toward the things they are best at and have a passion for, and working with people they like and respect No one manages your career for you. But with Citrin and Smith as your guide, you’ll be able to understand—and act on—the root causes of success. And what better source for strategic career advice than Spencer Stuart, the firm that over the past ten years has conducted more than 60 percent of the searches for Fortune 1000 CEOs?
The paperback edition of The Directory of Executive Recruiters is a quick but thorough reference for career changers and job-seekers to contact search firms that match their areas of expertise. Using the same database as the Corporate Edition above, it concentrates on North American firms. Internal information such as firm revenues, number of recruiters, etc., is not included. Introductory material helps guide job-seeker expectations with strategies for using recruiters as part of overall career management. "Anyone looking to turn headhunters' heads should have a copy of the Directory." --William Flanagan, Senior Editor, Forbes
Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book, the authors examine the key actors in the process of executive search globalization – leading global firms – and offer an interpretation of the forces producing the contemporary organizational strategies of global executive search. The Globalization of Executive Search documents the forms of institutional work that have legitimated the role of executive in elite labor markets and created demand for the services of global firms; this exposes not only the changing geographies of executive search, but also how executive search has established itself as a new knowledge intensive professional service. The authors reveal how the globalization of executive search is exemplary of the processes by which a range of new knowledge intensive professional services have come to be globally recognized, approaching the heart of contemporary capitalism.