How To Write A Good Job Description
A compelling job description will help you to attract the talent you need on board to reach your goals in 2025 and beyond. A badly written one will drive top talent to your competitor. But what exactly is a "good" job description? Based on what I have [...]
How To Make A Job Offer That Nobody Can Reject
Crisis? Corona? Where? The job market is overheated. Companies have trouble finding talent anywhere in the world: this is what we see in the Kennedy Executive Search network that spans 4 continents with it's 25 offices. Candidates have the choice. We here at Apollo [...]
Should You Hire That Very Candidate? The 5 Seconds Final Hiring Test
Hiring: I have done it 350 times for my clients and 50 times for myself since 2001! Phone qualification, personal interviews, reference taking - I have seen 'em all. Add personality and motivation tests, role plays or assessments centers for a more scientific touch [...]
How To Do A Reference Check
In my career as a headhunter, I have found new jobs for approximately 350 knowledge workers and interviewed thousands of candidates. And all of them saw themselves as above average candidates and often felt they understood both strategy and leadership better than their superiors. [...]
Three Reasons To Accept A Counter Offer
Counter offer! A candidate who has accepted a new job is "sold back" by his employer. The nightmare of the recruiter! What has happened until we got here? We have done a full search and talked to 150 candidates, sometimes more to identify those [...]