Founder and CEO of Intellerati | The Good Search. Retained executive search headhunter. Former investigative journalist. Wife of saxman. Mama of MD. Co-worker of Hamlet the Corgi. TikTok addict.
What Your LinkedIn Member ID Means Lower Linked Member ID Gravitas In certain social networking circles, a low LinkedIn member number gives the user nerdy gravitas. You must be pretty connected to industry VIPs, specifically…
How to Crush Candidate Sourcing Intellerati regularly steps in to help companies with candidate sourcing and executive search research. Clients often come to us when their internal candidate sourcing teams have not yet surfaced the…
Closing Executive Searches Faster Executive searches are moving more quickly. In 2023, the presentation of the executive who is ultimately hired usually occurs during the first month. In Q1, it was in 27 days. In…
How to Conduct In-House Executive Search: Differently If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that work will never be the same again. That also means in-house executive search will never be the same.…
Candidate Sourcing Advice inspired by Steve Jobs Corporate sourcing teams could take some candidate sourcing advice from Steve Jobs. The Apple founder understood better than most that “less is more”. While other tech companies opted for…
Skip Using LinkedIn to Recruit C-Level Executives Is LinkedIn Recruiter a Senior Executive Recruiter? LinkedIn is a tool — a useful one — that can be deployed to help recruit candidates for any company. For example,…
Executive Search Cost Executive search prices vary wildly. It is challenging for search buyers to determine exactly how much an executive search will cost. Further complicating matters: most search firms do not list their pricing…
Why Headhunters Fail Most traditional retained search headhunters are not candidate sourcing or recruiting research experts. Headhunters would rather focus on “more important” things like reeling in the next client. There’s a reason. Headhunter compensation…
Secret LinkedIn Filters Disappearing LinkedIn Filters It is not easy to find the people you want on LinkedIn. That is by design. As LinkedIn has monetized its offering, users have seen incredibly useful search filters disappear…
800 Million LinkedIn Member Profiles LinkedIn Member Profiles are a beautiful digital mirage for executive recruiters and candidate sourcers. We see so many candidates, like heatwaves, glistening in the distance. Yet as we get closer…
Talent Mapping Makes Search Smart Talent mapping is an executive search best practice. It goes a step beyond simply identifying and profiling potential candidates at a target company for an executive search engagement. The recruiting…
5 Secrets to Recruiting in Uncertain Times Change Brings Opportunity Ask Your Candidate Sourcers and Recruiting Researchers to Develop Market Intelligence Recruiting in uncertain times could be the theme of the past couple of years.…
The Good Search, LLC has been named to DiversityBusiness.com’s Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in Connecticut 2012 and Top 50 Women Owned Businesses in Connecticut 2012. Recognized as one of Connecticut’s “Top Entrepreneurs”, the DiversityBusiness.com awards recognize The Good Search for its overall leadership and economic achievements. Intellerati is the research brand and division of The Good Search, LLC.
When LinkedIn Recruiter Falls Short LinkedIn Recruiter is “a social media platform for finding, connecting with, and managing candidates.” It claims to surface quality candidates and member signals, enabling talent acquisition professionals to prioritize candidates…
Investigative Research and the Power of Data Investigative recruiting research combined with data analytics holds the power to transform executive recruiting.The Executive Search Information Exchange advises Fortune 500 companies on how best to utilize retained…
Banish Google reCAPTCHA in Executive Search Recruiters and candidate sourcers hold the power to banish Google ReCAPTCHA in executive search. You just have to know how. While searching for candidates or doing other forms of…
Why Org Charts Beat LinkedIn at Executive Search Org Charts Do What LinkedIn Does Not LinkedIn Was Not Designed for Executive Search Org charts super charge executive search because they literally show you every executive…
Calibrate Candidates with Pre-References In many cases, the reference-checking process consists of calling names given by the candidate. Those references are often anything but objective. No candidate in his or her right mind would direct you to…
Top 10 Reasons to Use a Recruiting Research Firm Recruiting research firms, such as Intellerati, are positioned as an alternative to traditional executive search firms. Executive search research firms uncover and map prospective candidates —…
Case Study of Diverse Executive Talent Pool Case Study Scenario In our case study of a Diverse Executive Talent Pool, a global media and entertainment company retained Intellerati to identify and profile top diverse senior-level…
A technology giant engaged Intellerati to fill a mission-critical opening for which failure was not an option. The engagement was the ultimate needle-in-a-haystack search. In fact, our client informed us that it had “no idea where in the world the ideal candidate might be located or whether the candidate even exists.”
Case Study of M&A Talent Ecosystem Research Case Study Scenario Our client, a Fortune 100 technology company, retained Intellerati to conduct talent ecosystem research, a study of the talent involved in developing exciting new applications…
Candidate Calibration in Executive Search Candidate calibration is a key ingredient in executive recruiting. It is the best way to tell whether an executive is a dream candidate or your worst nightmare. Calibrating a candidate…
Diverse Talent Research Learning how to discover diverse talent is essential for diversity recruiting. Often, diverse executive candidates are overlooked or missed entirely. So companies are realizing they have to do more to increase diverse…
Case Study of Executive Search for President Case Study Scenario A case study of a President Executive Search. Intellerati was retained to help an advertising agency recruit its next President. Our client was one of…
How to Find the Right Candidate How does an executive recruiter find the right candidate? From our perspective, the answer is simple: search differently. You must understand that “right” is. Speaking directly with the hiring…
Supercharge Executive Recruiting Supercharge your executive recruiting at a time when it is harder than ever. A growing number of in-house executive recruiting teams have told us they are struggling to fill critical openings. Historically…
How to Recruit Executives in a Pandemic It’s a question you never thought you’d still be asking, “How do I recruit executives in a pandemic?” But more than a couple of years since COVID-19 arrived and…
Executive Search Research Video Sourcers and Recruiters Blinded by LinkedIn? Our latest executive search research video tackles one of the biggest issues in executive recruiting. LinkedIn is how most passive candidates are identified. Yet, due…
Talent Pipeline Case Study Case Study Scenario Our case study features a talent pipeline that we built for executive recruiting at a global management consulting firm. Our client, one of the world’s leading management consulting…
Recruiting Data Executives Recruiting data executives is critically important for virtually all technology companies and most mid-tier and large corporations. With more and more companies harnessing the power of big data and analytics, the demand…
The Secret Power of Org Charts Org Charts are powerful things as you learn in our Definitive Guide to Org Charts. You may not know that by looking at them. True, they simply detail the…
Passive Candidate Sourcing on FEC.gov You can search FEC.gov for executive recruiting — if you dare. Just because you can conduct passive candidate sourcing there, it doesn’t mean you should. (See warning below.) Yet, whenever…
The Secret to Recruiting Top AI Talent There is a secret to recruiting top AI talent. And, these days, you need one. Chief AI Officer and Chief Data Officer searches are famously challenging. It is…
Deep Candidate Data Is the Answer Deep candidate data would solve executive recruiting. A large-scale data collection brimming with high-quality candidate information that qualifies and calibrates executives would facilitate near-immediate hires. Companies need to start…
Recruiting Research Inspirations for Nerds Our Talent Acquisition Inspirations stand at the intersection of recruiting with executive candidate data. While executives are made of flesh and blood, the data that tell their stories are made…
LinkedIn Talent Pool Overfished A growing number of employers are investing in LinkedIn recruiting licenses and, for less important roles, it can be an effective tool. However, for senior executive, mission-critical, and hard-to-fill technology roles,…
How to Recruit a Luminary If you want to recruit a luminary or rockstar executive, brace yourself. They are so heavily recruited it is next to impossible to get them to return your calls or…
