Have you ever actually tried to look through a keyhole? If so, you know that your field of view is extremely limited. You can really only see a small swath of the room on the other side. Inevitably, you miss anything too far to the right, left, top, or bottom. Yet that is exactly how most professionals look at the executive job market. Most executives only know about executive recruiters and o…

Loyalty to your employer is a great virtue. Trust is in short supply and wherever you can find it and maintain it this is an admirable and desirable circumstance. However, staying too long with the same organization or in the same role can also reduce your market value and negatively impact the value of your greatest pre-retirement asset, namely, your career. Here is a simple example: John e…

Introduction Perhaps no other industry has proven as adaptable to market conditions as the marketing and advertising industry. Marketing and Advertising was once confined to print, radio, TV, and outdoor, and highly dependent on the margin from media buys. Today, this industry has burgeoned into all manner of new and previously inconceivable channels. It is now encompassing the internet, socia…

Summer in the northern hemisphere can be a blessing or a curse depending on the weather. But all too often, executives eager to make a professional change use it as an excuse to procrastinate. We highlighted this risk last year in “The Lazy Days of Summer: Procrastinate at Your Own Risk.” Sure, it is true that overall employment may dip in the summer, but you are not everybody. You are an exec…

Macroeconomic Mischief and the Market for Executives. Frankly, it’s hard not to notice a significant drop in a major stock index—like a sudden descent in an elevator—it provokes dizziness, fear, panic and perhaps a tendency to freeze. It’s easy to become like the proverbial deer in the headlights. If that’s how you feel, you’re normal. Economists, however, are not normal. They tend to dig a l…

Some executives who come to us for help with their careers are in a happy place of having decided to exit their previous roles for reasons of their own choosing and are now looking to start something more lucrative, more satisfying, or, ideally, both.  Most, however, fall into the under-appreciated, overlooked, frustrated, and/or clueless categories.  The good news is that they have advanced f…

Professionals learn a trade. Once upon a time, professionals would stick with that trade. They continue in their trade until retirement or they otherwise stopped working. Today, many professionals move from one industry or role to another with relative ease. For professionals who have taken the opportunity to make a change, that is great! But there are other professionals who are still stuck. …

Forbes and Statista have again cited the Barrett Group for a third year as among the best executive recruiters in the US. In fact, we rank among the top 150 from a field of more than 30,000—the top 0.5%! So, of course, we are proud proponents of our clients. Why were we selected? Because of our impact. We help executives find their ideal positions and have done so continuously for 30 years un…

Introduction Finally! We are starting to see signs of recovery in a number of industries hard hit by the pandemic: Leisure, Travel & Tourism, Entertainment, and Restaurants. In this industry update, we have summarized them as “Travel, Leisure & Dining.” This recovery is not particularly broad however and is even a bit lopsided. In the US, “Out of the 1.6 million jobs left to recover, …

Why are we happy? We have 100 reasons to rejoice! More than 100 of our clients have landed stimulating executive positions so far in 2022. This is thanks to their hard work, our great team, and our tried-and-true methodology. One reason for this success begins at the start of each client program. We take the time to assess what clients really want to achieve in terms of their next career step …