Category: Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Why proactive talent sourcing matters when choosing a recruiting firm

If you're an executive or hiring leader who's serious about growth and making a positive impact on the business, partnering with a recruiting firm that integrates proactive talent sourcing can provide a significant competitive advantage. Unlike a recruiting approach that...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

What Hogan Assessments Measure and Why it Matters for Leadership Hires

Hogan Assessments are research-backed tools that help organizations understand how leaders are likely to show up at work – not just on their best day, but under pressure, over time, and in the culture you’re hiring them into. Grey Search...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Leadership Assessments in Executive Hiring: Benefits, Uses and Best Practices

Leadership assessments are structured tools used to evaluate leadership traits, motivations, decision-making styles, behavioral risks, and workplace tendencies. Organizations use leadership assessments to support executive hiring, leadership development, succession planning, onboarding, and internal promotions. These assessments help provide objective insight...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Where Candidate Drop-off Really Happens and What It Signals About Your Hiring Process

A few weeks ago, we asked our LinkedIn network a direct question: Where do you see the most candidate drop-off in your process? The results were revealing: 48% said between the 1st and 2nd interview 40% said after the initial...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Tips for Improving the Candidate Experience During Your Recruiting Process

We continuously consult with our clients regarding the “candidate experience.” It’s a hot topic with important implications, whether we are providing feedback directly from candidates or our client is asking for our recommendations. Why? With two job openings for every...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

The Great Counteroffer

As most people have heard in the news the era, we are currently experiencing in the workforce has been deemed the “Great Reshuffle.” Grey Search & Strategy and many other executive search firms are now experiencing the “Great Counteroffer.” The...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Leveraging the Strength of an Age-Diverse Workforce

by Brian Bjorgum, Associate Recruiting Partner For the first time in history, we have five different generations in the workplace at one time: Traditionalists (born 1925-1945), Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), Generation X (born 1965-1980), Millennials (born 1981-2000), and Generation Z...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Time to embrace the “softer” side of hiring

Everyone breathes a sigh of relief when you hire an employee for a position. The hiring managers are happy to fill the need on their team. HR is happy to have filled a hole in the company. The employee is...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

From one R-Word (Resume) to another (Results!)

Resumes, virtual interviewing, social media, networking…so many moving parts to a job search that are challenging to get right even in the best of times. And allow us to state the obvious: Today’s hiring environment is less than ideal. Depending...

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

Is your recruiting partner in it to FIT it…or just FILL it?

Many search firms treat recruiting as a numbers game. If they can throw a bunch of resumes at a bunch of clients, surely something will pop, right? And eventually something might. But then a year later…or 6 months…or maybe even...