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Recruiting for the right talent is no easy feat. If you're in the business of hiring you know that sorting through hundreds of resumes can be time consuming and overwhelming. As a candidate, it's no picnic either. With digital making us all have the attention spans of a goldfish or less, candidates need to make every effort to stand out from the sea of paper. However, there gets to a point where candidates are taking artistic license too far. Last week, I saw a resume for a buying position that was pink and lavender with at least four different infographics and fonts. I joked that it looked like a Valentine's Day card, but in all seriousness, it inspired this post. It's time to set the record straight on appropriate and preferred resume styles, so I decided to ask the experts, the recruiters, who do this for a living. Full Story>
TORONTO (February 8, 2019) – Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Anthony Capodanno has joined the firm as Managing Partner in the Toronto office. Capodanno has more than 20 years retained executive search experience having led numerous engagements throughout Canada, the U.S. and globally, serving as strategic advisor, business partner and confidant to clients. Full Story>
Few organizations are meeting their innovation goals because they lack the right leadership, according to a recent global survey of 636 business leaders by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Full Story>
Wells Fargo & Co. has jettisoned a longtime strategy of growing its own leaders in favor of importing them as part of the effort to clean up its image. The San Francisco-based firm hired Steve Troutner -- a veteran of Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Wachovia -- to lead the community bank’s U.S. Western region. And it brought in Nyron Latif from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as the head of operations for Jon Weiss’s wealth and investment-management unit. Both moves were announced this week. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to open its first office in Switzerland. DHR has been looking to establish a local presence in the Swiss market for the last couple of years as Switzerland is a geographic hub for many of our global clients and will allow us to better service our core global practice areas in Life Sciences, Consumer and Industrial. Zurich will be the firm’s 10th European office. Full Story>
Which firms have reputations for developing superior C-level marketing leaders? And which firms provide the best training that enables marketers to become CEOs? These are two common questions I get from marketers, executives, and students. Full Story>
The biggest wish of employees is an increase in salary. Research institutions’ surveys have shown that employees in the financial industry were the ultimate winners in 2018. According to the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management’s Pay Trend Survey, the financial services sector enjoyed the highest pay growth rate both in base pay adjustments (5.3%) and in non-guaranteed bonus plans (17.63 months of base salary) compared with other sectors. Will the growth trend continue in 2019? Full Story>