These Days, Executive Recruiters Are More Than Boardroom Brokers
No group in engineering and construction is probably more misunderstood, mistrusted and misused than executive recruiters. At best, theyre tolerated middlemen who deliver warm bodies for a fee. At worst, theyre unethical corporate raiders who can lay waste to an entire office or division.
Neither stereotype is entirely true, but finding and keeping top executives has never been more critical than in this era of changing markets, tighter profits and stiffer competition. Business demands are changing human resources from company joke to valued part of the strategic team. And its pushing more corporate leaders to turn to search firms to import the best talent into the executive suite.