Tag: executive job search

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...

Even as the northern hemisphere feels winter’s chill, we see our clients landing at a furious pace—more than 1 per day so far in 2024—indicating a hot hiring market for executives (at least if they hire the Barrett Group). Some recruiter-oriented sources seem to be reporting a slowdown in hiring,...

Professionals usually come to the Barrett Group to undertake a change of profession, industry, or role, to earn more money, to be more satisfied, and for many other reasons. Some of these executives even want to switch between the public and private sectors, particularly from the public (government)...

The Barrett Group’s Senior Social Media & Sales Support Manager, Keiva Ditchfield-Agboh interviews CEO, Marion Engelke, and Peter Irish, Chairman of The Barrett Group, about this year in review. Keiva: Welcome to Marion Engelke and Peter Irish today as we consider the year in review and look...

No, it’s not a typo. It’s an invitation. Instead of making the same old pledge to yourself to be a better person, parent, partner, or employee, or to lose weight, or to quit smoking, or… any of the usual commitments you make in January, why not address the underlying discomfort you feel of being under-appreciated,...

How to Avoid Failing at the Finish Line… Think of the last time you received an attractive job offer. Jubilation? Euphoria? Exhaustion? Relaxation? Those might be some of your very natural and human reactions. However, as Alexander Pope observed several hundred years ago, “Fools rush in where...