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Executive Search Consultants (or headhunters or recruiters – as we are also known) spend their days dialoguing with people (prospective candidates for hire) who represent prospective solutions to client problems. These conversations give us rich insight into companies, the people who lead them, and how they react to and resolve problems. While each search consultant has their own litany of observations from these conversations, this blog post is the culmination of observations from some of our consultant’s conversations with leaders about career satisfaction and attainment of personal and professional goals.
We commonly observe what we term as “passive talent” (those candidates that are not actively seeking a new job or role, also known as candidates that are so buried in excellence that they have no time or interest in looking for a new job) that express varying degrees of dissatisfaction with the direction their career has taken them. Oftentimes, such candidates seem to possess shockingly little mental clarity over which aspects of their career achievements can be tied to things they control such as experience attained, competencies developed and appropriately leveraged and which aspects are a result of things that in some cases are beyond their control, such as the people they lead, their employers, their subordinates and challenges unique to their environment. Gaining understanding of these aspects is critical to gaining the self awareness to begin the process of getting what you want. After all, we are speaking about the portion of our lives that we dedicate to work which is of course deserving of introspection. Gaining happiness and satisfaction in your working life is critical to finding balance in your overall life. Read more »
I had an interesting discussion with one of our clients recently that’s worth sharing with our friends and clients. She had spent fourteen years crossing the border on a daily basis and working full-time in Mexico where she held several middle-management and executive positions. In our discussion, she reflected on the truth a consultant told her early in her career as she was just beginning to work in Mexico. 
The QualiFind team collectively speaks with a myriad of hiring managers and leaders on a daily basis. We work with them to solve their problems through enhancing their organizations with the best and brightest people. Here’s an example, we’d like to share with you….
