Best of Blog is a collection of some of the most popular and informative blog posts about candidate research by Intellerati, a recruitment research firm, we detail the latest best practices in executive search research, recruitment research, talent mapping, diversity recruitment, and succession planning.
MLB Baseball executive Billy Beane figured out that everyone was measuring the wrong things. Nate Silver figured out that a model is only as honest as the inputs feeding it. In an era of AI-generated…
Retained search fails to complete 40% of the time. Contingency search abandons searches that take too long. Job postings flood you with unqualified applicants. A recruiting research firm solves all three problems — and delivers…
The internal executive search function was built to do retained search’s job better, faster, and at a fraction of the cost. For the most part, it succeeds. The ceiling appears at the VP+ level, on…
LinkedIn has 1.3 billion members and the most powerful professional search interface ever built. It is also not a recruiter, cannot qualify a candidate, and has no way of telling you whether the profile you…
Executive search research pricing ranges from a few dollars per name to $30,000 a month — and the difference is not just price. It is what you receive, what it takes to turn that deliverable…
You can crush candidate sourcing and do it faster with AI. But no matter what candidate sourcing tools you use, they have blind spots. AI indiscriminately discriminates. So to excel at sourcing, talent acquisition must…
Closing Executive Searches Faster Executive searches are moving at an unprecedented pace. In 2026, the “winning” candidate—the executive who is ultimately hired—is typically presented within the first 14 to 21 days of the search. In…
AI recruiting tools have made candidate identification faster, cheaper, and more scalable than at any point in the history of executive search. For in-house teams managing VP+ searches in 2026, that is genuinely useful —…
LinkedIn’s 1.3 billion member profiles look like an inexhaustible talent pool. For executive recruiters, they are something more complicated — a digital mirage that grows more convincing, and more treacherous, with every passing year. Incomplete…
LinkedIn Recruiter is a powerful starting point for executive search. It is not a finish line. Disorganized data, incomplete profiles, unreliable filters, and InMail limitations have always made senior-level sourcing harder than LinkedIn’s pitch suggests.…
Update April 2026: Not only can you find your LinkedIn Member number, but you can find the member numbers of any profile you view, simply by going to Chrome’s menu and clicking on View ->…
