Krista Bradford is CEO of the retained executive search firm The Good Search, which is Powered by Intellerati, the firm's executive search research lab and AI incubator. An Emmy Award-winning television journalist and investigative reporter, Ms. Bradford now pursues truth, justice, and great talent in the executive suite.
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…
