9 Steps To Get A Promotion This Year
2024 is your year and it is time to move on, internally or externally! Here at Apollo Executive Search and in all the markets we serve through the global Kennedy network, we see that companies have difficulties finding the right talent. And in a [...]
5 Reasons Santa Claus Is A Better Manager Than You
Ho, ho, ho – Christmas is near and this special year will end soon. Maybe, it brought you as a manager and leader to your limits. How did you do after all? What is the one leadership skill you evolved with last year, what [...]
Onboarding: 10 Sure-Fire Tips To Demotivate Your New Hire As Of Day 1
Here comes what looks like an easy read—but not a banal one. The truth is that many many many companies manage the onboarding or their new managers or employees badly and they know it—and the candidates know it too. The factor that might save [...]
How To Answer Stupid Interview Questions – And What They Really Mean
In my career as a headhunter, I have conducted approx 2,500 job interviews myself and assisted to hundreds my clients led with my candidates. Since 2001, I have learned a lot from my clients on clever questioning that brings [...]
Should You Pay A Retainer To A Search Firm (Teaser: Yes, Especially To Us)
If you want to be sure to find the best talent in the market available, there are many advantages going through an executive search firm. Especially for the executive search firm because this is how we pay the salaries and the rent. Be careful [...]
Salary Negotiation: 33 Things To Negotiate Other Than Money
Congratulations! You have mastered the job interviews, left all your competitors behind and enter the final phase of your job search phase: the salary negotiation. What can you expect? A typical salary negotiation is unfortunately very often minimal to inexistent: you will be asked your expectations - and then, an offer is made. A real negotiation, however, [...]