{"id":1280,"date":"2007-11-09T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/worklife-balance-has-reached-executives\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T12:46:28","slug":"worklife-balance-has-reached-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/worklife-balance-has-reached-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Work\/Life Balance Has Reached Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/managing\/content\/nov2007\/ca2007111_387979.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\">BusinessWeek.com offers up a good summation<\/a> of today&#8217;s hiring market in terms of executive recruitment.\u00a0 We could have wrote this article &#8211; it describes exactly what we are encountering in a couple of executive searches.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s unpack a couple points from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This new environment requires that executive headhunters and companies&#8217; human resources and business leaders delve deeper into what&#8217;s really important to senior-management candidates and calibrate the recruitment process accordingly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very true.\u00a0 Part of this understanding comes from assessing their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Motivations.html\">motivations<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Rewards.html\">rewards<\/a>, the other part from interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/the-value-of-flexibility\/\">I posted on the need for flexibility<\/a> when hiring since candidates desire work\/life balance far more than in previous times.\u00a0 An example (my order):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many headhunters say search assignments used to be considerably easier to orchestrate when more management-level career climbers were willing to commit\u2014with little or no hesitation\u2014to do whatever it might take to succeed in a new job if it promised big career opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that in today&#8217;s market for executive talent, sought-after leaders hold the bargaining advantage because they&#8217;re facing a resilient economy, multiple job offers, and likely a steady stream of calls from headhunters who want to move them.<\/p>\n<p>The issues that motivate today&#8217;s top management talent to pursue new career opportunities have themselves grown more complex, in large part because of leaders&#8217; desire for more work\/life balance and\/or the need to protect their assets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The work\/life balance topic is at the forefront of hiring and retention.\u00a0 Companies that do not proactively address this topic will flounder in the hiring arena.\u00a0 Unfortunately, one of our customers would not adjust despite our pleas and they ended up losing a strong candidate because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek.com offers up a good summation of today&#8217;s hiring market in terms of executive recruitment.\u00a0 We could have wrote this article &#8211; it describes exactly what we are encountering in a couple of executive searches. Let&#8217;s unpack a couple points from the article: This new environment requires that executive headhunters and companies&#8217; human resources and business leaders delve deeper into what&#8217;s really important to senior-management candidates and calibrate the recruitment process accordingly. Very true.\u00a0 Part of this understanding comes from assessing their motivations and rewards, the other part from interaction. Yesterday I posted on the need for flexibility when hiring since candidates desire work\/life balance far more than in previous&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/worklife-balance-has-reached-executives\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,24],"tags":[36,37,39,38,1767],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends","category-worklife-balance","tag-executive-recruiting","tag-hiring-trends","tag-management-hiring","tag-sales-hiring","tag-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1543,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/executive-hiring-a-challenging-priority\/","url_meta":{"origin":1280,"position":0},"title":"Executive Hiring A Challenging Priority","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Herman Trend Alert newsletter (sorry, no link): The economic slowdown here in the United States is not having the expected effect on the demand for qualified executive talent. 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No one's suggesting employers do away\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1650,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/countercyclical-market-segments-are-hiring\/","url_meta":{"origin":1280,"position":4},"title":"Countercyclical Market Segments Are Hiring","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Career News (sorry, no link) references an article regarding job market growth in 3 specific sectors (my bold): While hiring in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors has clearly been impacted by the continued fall-out from the mortgage market collapse, the technology, healthcare and defense sectors are all adding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1703,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/2-jobs-in-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1280,"position":5},"title":"2 Jobs In 1","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal offers an article about companies combining 2 jobs into 1 and then hiring based on the lower level job.\u00a0 The author explains it better than me: Some job hunters have been encountering a new kind of downsizing: companies that aren't eliminating positions entirely, but are combining\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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