How you feel about working remotely probably has a lot to do with your role. Employees apparently prefer being remote, or at least a hybrid role according to a recent study that shows “…an overwhelming 98% of respondents expressed a desire to work remotely at least some of the time for the rest of their careers. […] the appeal of remote work is catching on, with 87% of workers embracing flexibl…

Health Care is certainly one of the fastest-growing major markets worldwide, despite the gradual abatement of the Covid-19 threat. In 2020, “[s]harp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately 11% of global GDP).” [See source.] “Health spending is projected to return to an annual g…

Inspiration can come from anywhere, so why not a fortune cookie? The fortune read, “Life is like a mirror. When you smile into it, it smiles back. When you frown at it, it frowns in return.” Let’s not get too metaphysical here, but there is a certain basic truth to this observation. Just as clear glass allows light to pass through unfiltered, but stained glass changes the color of the beams. O…

Executives often ask us why they should have to invest in their careers. In the early part of your career, investment is indeed less necessary. But as you age and the telephone stops bringing hungry headhunters, investment begins to seem more reasonable.  After all, your career is your most valuable pre-retirement asset.  Increasing its worth through judicious investment only makes sense.  And…

As an executive, you may feel that your career options are limited by your industry, your role, your location, your income requirements, and, of course, personal concerns. We might like to politely disagree with this assessment, excluding the personal concerns parameter, of course. You see, many of our clients either come to us wanting to change some of those parameters (particularly their in…

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:

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…

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…

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.

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…