Tag: career management

Client landings have surged 15% in the first quarter over the same period in 2023 at The Barrett Group (TBG). Even more positive is that TBG client interviews with prospective employers are up 30% against prior year—boding well for further landings in the future.

Have you noticed how many new businesses have sprung up recently? Women have historically been under-represented among entrepreneurs, but some indicators suggest that is now changing. Female executives are gaining traction in new business creation, and many of those women are benefitting from TBG’s...

Macroeconomic indicators have improved and, with it, so have opportunities for executives! The share of larger and more lucrative executive jobs has increased. There may never have been a better time than now for an executive to take a good look ahead and consider a change.

Nearly 400,000 executives are active in the transportation segment and they enjoy high hiring demand. While the total number of execs did not change much in the last year, almost 12,000 of them transitioned jobs, often moving from one sector to another.

During the first six weeks of 2024 executive clients of The Barrett Group landed their targeted positions at a rate that is 19% ahead of prior year and on par with the post-pandemic tsunami of 2022. More than a dozen signed on to C-level roles—an unprecedented achievement!

Is a slow and steady approach to your career bringing you the compensation, recognition, promotion, and satisfaction that you deserve? If not, more dramatic action may be required. It may well be time to make a leap of faith – a big move to another company, another role, another location, or all ...

The published market for executive positions is biased in favor of the employer. Will more sophisticated AI tools improve applicants’ chances? Possibly. But more important than AI tools is realizing that when you apply online you are fishing in only a small part of the pond. In fact, there is another...