What You Need to Know About Executive Recruiting
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Adi, so many of our listeners, many people who read HBR, who go to business school are or have aspirations. to be senior leaders in their organizations. Maybe the C-suite, maybe they even want to be CEO someday. And that of course means building a resume that will impress a lot of stakeholders. But one increasingly important group is executive recruiters.
Look, I I co-ran HBR for a long time and, you know, we're a different organization from a lot of corporate entities out there, but Even we bring in executive search firms for the big roles. And, you know, the senior leaders I talk to, these are people who have great skills, great experience, they're politically savvy, they've made all the right career moves. Even they say they need to figure out how in the world to persuade recruiters that they are C suite material as both internal and and external candidates. Yeah, exactly.
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