Industry Update: Information Technology
Before we look at this industry in detail let us first rise to the 30,000-foot altitude and look at the landscape for a moment. Many sources offer such perspectives but one interesting source took the abstraction to an unusual level. They focused mainly on emotional motivation. Paraphrasing this source:
Warning: Autumn Avalanche in the Executive Market
It’s true. Call it a tsunami, a surge, or an avalanche, but when human resources and hiring managers come back from their summer holidays (in the northern hemisphere) they usually publish a slew of want ads, engage search firms, and otherwise seek to catch up on hiring candidates for all of those open positions they failed to fill so far this year.
Sometimes budget consciousness plays a role a…
Dangers of the Do-It-Yourself Market
You could, of course, not invest in your career. You could join the thousands of job seekers applying to online ads or bombarding disinterested recruiters with irrelevant resumes. This approach guarantees maximum competition and minimum compensation because it creates a “buyers’ market” where the employer has the leverage, not the applicant.
So it is possible to find an executive job in this d…
INDUSTRY UPDATE: A World of Executive Opportunity
The Barrett Group principally covers the three regional markets noted below with some exceptions. But there is truly a world of executive opportunity out there if you know where to look. More than 450,000 executive positions were filled in the past year in these markets. To be sure, the rates of growth and change vary considerably. And that is exactly why we publish this Industry Update now.
Marketable or Makeover (Part Three): Perceiving the Invisible Market for Executives
Imagine you and two friends stumble across a huge shape in the dark. One of you reaches out and feels big floppy leaves like an enormous tree. Another feels a sturdy tree trunk, wrinkled, and strong. And the third feels a tiny stalk with a fly whisk on the end. Later when you discuss your impressions, it might seem that you are describing very different objects.
Yes, it’s an elephant, and a ve…
INDUSTRY UPDATE: Leisure, Travel, Hospitality & Restaurants
We bundle Leisure, Tourism, Travel, Hospitality, and Food into one macro-category. There is significant overlap and transfer of executives between these related activities. Clearly, these industries suffered during the Covid-19 lockdowns. These industries have taken some time to recover, but that recovery is now well underway. For example, international visitors to the US were up 128% in 2022 v…
Marketable or Makeover (Part Two): Perfecting Your Packaging
Once upon a time, a resume may well have served its purpose as a chronological recounting of a candidate’s titles. It listed responsibilities, employers, and dates of employment, but that is not a helpful strategy anymore. In fact, it might be helpful to think of a resume essentially as an exclusionary document. Today a resume is more the reason you are NOT considered for a position than the re…
Marketable or Makeover (Part One): Square Peg / Round Hole
Square Peg / Round Hole –
Hundreds of executives come to us for help each month. Most cannot honestly or accurately answer this marketability question often because they lack perspective. The majority of people change jobs infrequently. We can fill this gap because we help executives obtain their ideal positions every day and we’ve been doing it for more than three decades.
Our clients gener…
Give Yourself a Promotion
Give yourself a promotion.
Guidance from a parent, a relative, a coach, a teacher, or perhaps a spiritual leader typically gives us direction early in life. Often we grow to expect this input from others and we utilize it to define our futures. With luck, we have positive role models and helpful input, but, of course, sometimes the input is more about how not to be in the world—laden with nega…
INDUSTRY UPDATE: Marketing & Advertising
Introduction
Advertising and marketing used to be so simple. Broadcast, print, point of sale… the options were limited and there were relatively few outlets. It seemed at least as if access to any given audience was highly controlled by a small cadre of media outlets. However, the proliferation of “outlets” over the last decades is astounding. Speaking only of “newsrooms”, one source says, “…w…
