Posts by Wendy Weber

The answer: “It depends.” So says Deb McAlister, who is working on a book about business/personal legal issues and social media. Her research brings to light some troubling inconsistencies: “If you were hired to be the company blogger, to create a Twitter account and tweet for the company, to develop the corporate media presence, the…

This is fun. When we are asked to recruit for a Creative position, I am always a little surprised that the resumes are not more…well, creative. Wouldn’t you think job seekers with creative talent would utilize that to market themselves? Here are 13 very creative resumes from BusinessInsider.com: Click here. I wouldn’t necessarily get this…

Internet Retailer chose me as their executive resource about Ecommerce Executive Compensation. The orientation of the article was that professionals with e-commerce experience face good odds that the coming year will prove lucrative. “There’s been a lot of movement at the executive level among large, publicly traded retailers,” says Wendy Weber, president of executive recruitment…

According to Adam Davidson, cofounder of NPR’s Planet Money, in a piece he wrote for today’s NY Times, the answer is no. This is an issue that I follow with great interest, and I have come to the conclusion that, as Davidson states, “No corporate leader is rewarded for hiring people who aren’t absolutely required.…

Lab42 surveyed 500 Americans who were registered LinkedIn users between July 1st and July 5th 2011, and the results are indicated in the graphic above. The findings are interesting. High level executives tend to utilize LinkedIn to win new business, conduct market research, and demonstrate thought leadership and expertise. More junior level executives use LinkedIn…

Greg Savage, an Australian blogger, puts it bluntly: Recruiters, toughen the f*** up! in his piece about the challenges of executive recruiting. In his words: o Recruiting is uniquely tough because it’s the only job that I know where what you are selling can turn around and say ‘no’. o Recruiting is a killer because…

It’s difficult to read these words and not follow up by reading the essay, isn’t it? Here is the piece, written by author Michael Ellsberg, for the Sunday New York Times: click here. Here are the cliff notes: Apple founder Steve Jobs…Microsoft founders Bill Gates & Paul Allen…Twitter founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams & Biz…

Recruiters tend to look self-serving when we say that counter offers are a bad idea. But they are! Interesting post by SeSee Munson, a recruiter with The Wilson Group (click here). As an employee, I would look askance at an employer who claimed to value me, but only gave me a raise when his/her back…

From Search Engine Watch, interesting piece on the characteristics of a good in-house SEO. They are expected to be thought leaders, salesmen, collaborators, educators and synthesizers. “Companies don’t want to hire someone who can get them top rankings or create some monthly reports – that is a given now. Increasingly, in-house SEOs are required to…