Forbes Media and Statista recognize The Barrett Group® as one of America’s Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms 2022.  For the third consecutive year, professionals in the industry, peers, and clients nominated The Barrett Group (TBG) as one of Forbes and Statista’s America’s Best Recruiting and Temp Staffing Firms 2022. Forbes and Statista base the ranking on an independent survey of…

Imagine eleven successes in your life all piling up at one time.  How does that feel?  One good thing, or two, maybe three… but ELEVEN!  Wow! That is exactly how we feel about eleven of our clients landing executive roles in one week!  So far in April, our clients continue to land important positions, too. Positions such as CEO, Chief Growth Officer, Executive Vice President, Senior Vice Presi…

The Barrett Group’s CEO Peter Irish interviews Laura Tapias, Vice President Americas at Applicaster about the challenges and opportunities within Streaming  Peter Irish: Welcome to this edition of the Hiring Line. I’m Peter Irish with The Barrett Group and it’s my great pleasure today to invite Laura Tapias, who is the Vice President Americas from Applicaster, to talk to us about streaming a…

Introduction In this Update, we decided to marry two industries that are quite intertwined. We felt we could provide a better prospective on the total executive market in these sectors if we combined them. Nevertheless, at least at the outset, let us look into the major segments of Construction and Real Estate. And understand some of the underlying factors driving demand. In the US, conventio…

Seventy-Five Careers that Thrive Each of us has probably had the experience of being at the top of our game. And then we discover a few weeks or months later that after the peak there often comes a valley. The answer is to recognize where you are on the so-called sigmoid curve. And make your move when you are approaching the top (whether in income, influence, and/or satisfaction). The key is t…

The Barrett Group’s CEO Peter Irish interviews David Kerr, Managing Director at Allos Ventures as they discuss the challenges and opportunities within Venture Capital  Peter Irish: Hello there. Welcome to this edition of the Hiring Line. I’m Peter Irish with the Barrett Group, and it’s my great pleasure to welcome David Kerr from Allos Ventures today. David, would you be so kind as to introd…

Introduction We are often asked questions such as have women made real progress in infiltrating the executive ranks. And what is the prognosis going forward? We thought therefore that it makes sense to see where the female executive ranks stand at the moment so we can take stock in the future. The Economist recently published their Glass Ceiling Index. (See Source). It provides an excellent g…

Introduction As in other industries, there has been a seismic shift in focus in the legal industry over the last year or two. This is in part because of the pandemic and the rise in remote working. On the one hand, this relates to the content of the work whereby compliance with the fast-changing masking, vaccination, and other pandemic-related legal proscriptions have tilted the playing field….

It seems undeniable that the executive job market is strong right now. But nine clients landing across the US, Europe, UK, and the Middle East per week for the first six weeks of 2022 is simply unprecedented! Fifty-four! In fact, it is not the volume of client success that really occupies us, but rather the quality of it. Our clients have worked hard to achieve their gains, but they tell us tim…

INDUSTRY UPDATE: Procurement – February 2022 Introduction to Procurement Imagine for a moment that someone forgot to buy food… tea, coffee, water, sugar, vegetables, rice, beans… toilet paper…  Anything that you consume regularly in your household. What would happen? You would probably experience something between dissatisfaction and total disfunction, right? Perhaps this brings home the cri…