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Technology will never compress senior executive search into a six-week process
“The length of time to complete searches has not shortened. Because it is a people business, it is, it's based on personal relationships, meeting people in person, building trust, establishing credibility, both with the search firm and the candidate, and then t…”
David Barrett Sep 25, 2017 ▶ 33:44 David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
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Executive search's commission structure encourages selfish recruiters over client focus
“In the search business, it's really hard to live by it, which is, don't hire assholes, because there's a lot of people in search that are, it's all about them, you know, there's, it's, you know, it's a professional services, and it's a revenue business. So to …”
David Barrett Sep 25, 2017 ▶ 41:25 David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
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