When interviewing job candidates, most recruiters focus on the past, asking questions like “What were your biggest accomplishments?” or “What did you learn from that experience?” But there’s another strategy that can help HR professionals determine whether a candidate will be a good fit for the organization, especially at the executive level. The technique is called behavioral interviewing and it focuses on how a candidate reacts when faced with a […]
How To Make the Switch Lisa Thompson, Managing Director, Professional Services In this employment marketplace, many senior executives are facing weighty decisions in their career paths, including whether to make a switch to an entirely different industry. This decision can be either voluntary, such as when an executive is no longer challenged in the industry he or she has been in for years, or involuntary, due to changing market […]
Today, smartphones, tablets and laptops are essential communication tools for almost everyone from globetrotting CEOs to students. But the wide diversity of devices, applications and users has created a policy headache for large enterprises, small businesses, governments and educational institutions. There are myriad practical, legal, technical and financial questions to consider in a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. What is BYOD and how do you set up a BYOD policy? Just some […]
How To Make the Switch Lisa Thompson, Managing Director, Professional Services In this employment marketplace, many senior executives are facing weighty decisions in their career paths, including whether to make a switch to an entirely different industry. This decision can be either voluntary, such as when an executive is no longer challenged in the industry he or she has been in for years, or involuntary, due to changing market or […]
Lisa Thompson, Managing Director, Professional Services Executive coaching is an important part of the corporate culture in many organizations. When done effectively, coaching can boost productivity and help build new career skills. Yet, many organizations don’t extend their coaching programs into the C-suite. Coaching the CEO can be one of the best investments an organization can make, since the impact goes far beyond the C-suite—and it’s especially vital during […]
Restaurant Chain Orders New Chief Marketing Officer: Pearson Partners Delivers While astounding growth is what most companies are aiming for, growing rapidly can have its challenges. As SONIC Corp. quickly expanded to become the largest drive-in restaurant chain in America, the Oklahoma-based company found itself taking a deep look inward to ensure that its managements’ skills and experience were able to keep pace. “We’re very happy with how well SONIC […]
Assessment Helps Association Reorganize to Better Serve Growing Membership When a membership organization outgrows its association management company, restructuring is a necessary but onerous task. As the world’s largest independent community of SAP customers and providers, the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group has spent the last 17 years providing education and peer networking and serving as the collective influential voice of customers shaping the future of SAP solutions. At 50,000 members […]
