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Recruiting & Retaining Talent

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Strategic Leadership Talent Acquisition: A Comprehensive Guide

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Bridging Borders: Lessons from Establishing a Medical Cryogenics Business Across Two Continents

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Why SMEs Have the Edge in Attracting Top Talent

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What Matters Most to Retain and Motivate Your Team? Insights from LinkedIn Poll Results

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Do SMEs Undervalue Their Appeal to Top Candidates?

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5 Key Steps for Business Leaders Facing a Resignation This Week 🚪💼

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Why the Research Phase is Crucial to Finding Top Talent

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Keeping candidate engagement during a slow interview process

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Offer Strategies to Secure Great Talent for Your Business

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Unlocking Success: The Essential Qualities of a Top Headhunter

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Looking to partner with an Executive Search firm? I bet you’re not asking these essential questions!

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What to consider when recruiting an Innovation Director

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The Benefits of Talent Mapping

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What is Employer Branding and How Can You Use it to Lead Candidate Attraction?

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Benefits of Using Psychometric Assessments as Part of a Robust Recruitment Process

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Burn Out and Succession Planning in Cyber

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Why invest in a Headhunter before they successfully recruit a role for you?

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Have you Created a Recruitment Process or a Candidate Experience?

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Succession Planning to Achieve the Vision

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Winning Teams – What Does “Winning” Mean to You?

10 Bulletproof Steps to Selecting a Recruitment Partner to Support your Business

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Executive Search - A Cost or Investment?

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15 Interesting Recruitment Facts

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Is Executive Search the Dream Answer to Your Senior Recruitment Nightmares?

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Key Differences Between Retained Executive Search and Contingency Recruitment Agencies

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When Should You Engage with a Professional Executive Search Firm?

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What is Talent Pipelining? And Why it is a Better Option Versus Standard Recruitment

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How I recruit managers with board-level potential

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Headhunting – A guide to help you decide if it will benefit your business

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Why Companies Should Move from Working with Contingency Recruiters to Partnering Executive Search Specialists?

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Why do Companies Believe that Contingency Recruiters Proactively Headhunt for them?

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Key Factors You Should Consider When Recruiting A Sales Director

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Storytelling is Far More Effective than Glossy Employer Branding

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A Robust Recruitment Process that isn’t Only Relevant for Board Roles!!

Strategic Leadership Talent Acquisition: A Comprehensive Guide

In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate leadership, the most successful organisations understand that talent acquisition is not a reactive process, but a strategic, forward-looking endeavour. Pursuing exceptional leadership talent requires a nuanced, proactive approach that goes far beyond traditional recruitment methodologies.

Bridging Borders: Lessons from Establishing a Medical Cryogenics Business Across Two Continents

At Collingwood Executive Search, we have been supporting start-ups and SMEs in the medical, medtech, and medical devices sectors for nearly 27 years. Our experience recruiting globally across 35 countries and our integral talent mapping service allowed us to provide the client with critical insights that shaped their market entry strategy. This article delves into the lessons learned and key takeaways from this project.

Why SMEs Have the Edge in Attracting Top Talent

One of the most common things I hear from SME leaders when we talk about recruitment is: “How can we compete with the big players?” And honestly, I get it. Global corporations often have more money to throw around, a shinier employer brand, and a reputation that precedes them. But here’s the thing: SMEs offer something different—and in many ways, better.

What Matters Most to Retain and Motivate Your Team? Insights from LinkedIn Poll Results

As leaders, we’re constantly grappling with one of the most pressing challenges of today’s business landscape: retaining and motivating top talent. At Collingwood Executive Search, this issue resonates deeply with us as we devote significant energy to identifying exceptional talent for our clients. Yet, finding the right people is only half the battle—keeping them engaged and committed is just as critical.

Do SMEs Undervalue Their Appeal to Top Candidates?

We partner a lot of SME businesses to recruit high calibre leaders to help them achieve their growth objectives. At the start of a lot of our relationships, we find that SMEs believe they are less attractive than larger companies and we are constantly having to convince them that this isn't the case!

5 Key Steps for Business Leaders Facing a Resignation This Week 🚪💼

The key thing is NOT to panic. ❌ The first working week of January is consistently one of the top three weeks for resignations. Why? • Sales professionals often wait until their bonuses hit the bank. • Others take the New Year as a time to reflect, reset, and pursue new career opportunities. If you’ve received a resignation this week, you’re not alone. But how you respond will make all the difference.

Why the Research Phase is Crucial to Finding Top Talent

Our Executive Search Delivery Consultant, Chris Mayers, discusses why thorough research underpins every successful search and why we place so much emphasis on it.

Keeping candidate engagement during a slow interview process

In today’s competitive job market, maintaining candidate engagement during slow recruitment processes is crucial. This article explores the strategies you can adopt to ensure a positive candidate experience, even during delays.

Offer Strategies to Secure Great Talent for Your Business

We write a lot about the value and benefits of executive search, as well as the employee/employer value proposition and candidate journey, but what happens at the end of that journey?

Unlocking Success: The Essential Qualities of a Top Headhunter

This article covers the key characteristics that make a good headhunter.

Looking to partner with an Executive Search firm? I bet you’re not asking these essential questions!

In this article, Mark Goldsmith shares his first-hand experience of being compared against another executive search firm for a crucial leadership role, highlighting the critical importance of asking key questions to ensure successful candidate engagement and recruitment outcomes.

What to consider when recruiting an Innovation Director

If you're looking to increase innovation within your company, it's important to have the right team in place. One of the most important roles within this team is the innovation director. This person is responsible for spearheading new initiatives and driving change within the organisation.

The Benefits of Talent Mapping

Let us begin by defining talent mapping. It is a process by which individuals are identified and mapped for a specific role requirement using secondary research. Talent mapping is commonly used when HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) leads are devising recruitment strategies, however, as will be explained below, this exercise is not just limited to recruitment, but it can also strongly influence HR policy.

What is Employer Branding and How Can You Use it to Lead Candidate Attraction?

If you are in a position to bring in new talent to your team, and if this responsibility falls to you, now more than ever you will be met with a challenge – especially in the world of technical recruitment. You may have seen the phrase Employer or Employee Value Proposition, generally shortened to EVP while networking on Linked in or reading an industry newsletter or article – but have you had the time to understand what this is, and how it can be beneficial to you?

Benefits of Using Psychometric Assessments as Part of a Robust Recruitment Process

It is no secret that recruiting new employees can be a daunting task. Not only do you have to find the right person for the job, but you also have to make sure that they are the best possible fit for your company and your team. This is where psychometric assessments can play an important role.

Burn Out and Succession Planning in Cyber

Burn out in Cyber Security is not a new subject, but it is one that has had much more coverage over the last 18 months. The most significant change during this time has obviously been the pandemic, which saw a rise in cyber-attacks – dealt with by teams working remotely…it all adds up to increased pressure.

Why invest in a Headhunter before they successfully recruit a role for you?

A headhunter is a company or individual that works on behalf of an employer to help recruit exceptional talent. Companies invest in headhunters to find talented people who fit specific job requirements. Headhunters are also known as executive recruiters, and the service they provide is typically referred to as executive search. Some head-hunters are very specialist in the industry they partner and can work from a “black book” meaning they probably know the potential candidates needed by their clients. Other head-hunters provide a robust and bespoke service to research and engage with required candidates.

Have you Created a Recruitment Process or a Candidate Experience?

I recently watched a great chat between Google Dave and Hung Lee at the Brainfood gathering and they discussed candidate experience over recruitment process. We all know that it is currently really tough to find the talent we all need to satisfy job vacancies and enable our businesses to deliver the exciting growth opportunities we have. However, it seems that MOST companies are still running a recruitment process based on their needs rather than creating a candidate experience that will motivate high calibre talent to want to be involved.

Succession Planning to Achieve the Vision

To achieve the vision and mission, organisations must have a strategy, and that strategy needs to be brought alive through a number of activities, namely: effective leadership, policies, workforce planning (resources and skills currently required) and succession planning (future resources and skills).

Winning Teams – What Does “Winning” Mean to You?

What does “winning” mean to you? How would you define it? I guess this may appear to be a stupid question to most, but I think we can translate a “winning team” in a multitude of different ways.

10 Bulletproof Steps to Selecting a Recruitment Partner to Support your Business

What does “winning” mean to you? How would you define it? I guess this may appear to be a stupid question to most, but I think we can translate a “winning team” in a multitude of different ways.

Executive Search - A Cost or Investment?

Is hiring an executive search firm an expense or a strategic investment? Let's explore the true value of executive search in today's competitive market

15 Interesting Recruitment Facts

As an executive search company, we regularly read articles highlighting some of the stats linked to our sector.

Is Executive Search the Dream Answer to Your Senior Recruitment Nightmares?

Like any industry, recruitment has its own terminology and buzzwords. These words, when used without context, can often cause confusion for those simply trying to invest in the best service and compare like with like

Key Differences Between Retained Executive Search and Contingency Recruitment Agencies

Like any industry, recruitment has its own terminology and buzzwords. These words, when used without context, can often cause confusion for those simply trying to invest in the best service and compare like with like.

When Should You Engage with a Professional Executive Search Firm?

The answer is, only when you are ready to invest in your business.

What is Talent Pipelining? And Why it is a Better Option Versus Standard Recruitment

Talent pipelining is more commonly conducted by large US technology companies and is gaining popularity amongst large European businesses. However, talent pipelining should not only be available to those with internal talent teams; it is arguably more relevant to growing or evolving SMEs.

How I recruit managers with board-level potential

We’ve listed some traits of interview candidates with board-level potential, I wonder if other talent leaders or business leaders might agree

Headhunting – A guide to help you decide if it will benefit your business

We've explored what exactly a headhunter is and why you would consider one for your business

Why Companies Should Move from Working with Contingency Recruiters to Partnering Executive Search Specialists?

We have explored some frustrations of working with contingency recruiters and why you should partner with executive search specialists

Why do Companies Believe that Contingency Recruiters Proactively Headhunt for them?

We have explored why companies should work with a proactive executive search partner rather than a contingency recruiter

Key Factors You Should Consider When Recruiting A Sales Director

Are you looking to hire a Sales Director or Sales Leader? Costly mistakes are often made in the hiring process due to lack of initial input in working out what you require. Get it right first time! Collingwood Executive Search have put together this helpful guide - 12 key factors you should consider when recruiting a Sales Director, which will help you make the right decisions before you start your hiring process.

Storytelling is Far More Effective than Glossy Employer Branding

ERE.net have published a report by entrepreneur Alon Laniado on employer branding which really resonates with my experience as a head-hunter. Here are some tips to improve your story brand

A Robust Recruitment Process that isn’t Only Relevant for Board Roles!!

There is a misconception that executive search is a recruitment process relevant for only hiring board level roles. It is, in fact, a robust recruitment process that adds values to a range of roles up and down the hierarchical ladder

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