Each year, we try to find the new words (and repeating words) that are new yet have become part of our daily vocabulary (or will become part of our daily vocabulary). Here is the list for 2018. Enjoy - and start using them...
We interview people for a living. We don’t interview many, however. We talk to hundreds – many of those conversations are short. We explain why we are calling. We explore the basics of an opportunity to see if it is appropriate for the person...
Many of you know that I am a data junkie. Each morning I have a routine that includes looking at 3 newspapers (on-line, of course), oil and gas futures, Conference Board reports and stock futures. I tweet (follow me: @David_Magy)...
It is a relatively quiet week . . . . . so it is time to catch up on last year’s reading (the pile I kept) and plan for the year to come. I was reading HR Magazine and a quote caught my eye:
“Job security is a myth. Set up Me Inc. – a...
Search number 600+ started last week. The client is a wonderful organization that we have worked with before. We have had the privilege of placing and/or working with most of their senior team. We have worked with them for over eight...
I spent 7 years working in the outplacement/career transition industry. Four of the six of us at Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates came from the same outplacement company. Each person we worked with had their own story – about why they were there (in...
I was reading the September, 2017 HR Magazine (a SHRM publication) while waiting for a colleague to join me at a breakfast meeting. There was a small article in the HR News section on parents of employees who want to be involved in their adult children’s...
Clients often ask search firms how they are different from others. There are many angles from which to view a given firm’s differentiation—geographic focus, industry sector specialization, and functional focus, to name a few. However, one of the...
On August 1st (2017), we start year 22 as a Retained Executive Search firm. Ken and Mary Abeln, co-founders with me (David Magy), actually set up our firm a month earlier – working on all of the business and legal requirements to start operating on...