This podcast episode features a short QA with Mark Oppenheimer, group chief commercial innovation officer for global talent consultancy boutique Marlin Hawk. Based in New York City, Mark is the chief architect behind his firm’s vision and just-launched candidate assessment analytics tool. As Mark points out, organizations everywhere are looking for better ways to recruit and retain good quality people to drive effectiveness and performance in their business. Executive search firms are stepping up with an array of assessment tools that are making massive strides in the field of candidate assessment analytics. Their hope and desire is to discover the leaders of tomorrow before someone else does! It is, today, the hottest area in the talent management and leadership sector. One of the more enticing assessment launches comes this week from Marlin Hawk, which offers a suite of leadership advisory services catering to all aspects of the talent agenda. Branded ‘ATHENA’ after the Greek goddess, the name intentionally suggests a fusion of wisdom, courage, inspiration, justice, mathematics, strategy, arts and crafts. It is a behavioral and personality assessment tool designed to peel back the layers to uncover a candidate’s deeper personality and tendencies – revealing how they are wired and what motivates them to succeed. Could ATHENA be the break-through assessment tool we have all been waiting for? Mark Oppenheimer tells us in this highly engaging and informative podcast.

This podcast episode features a short QA with CEO Keith Mullin, of Mullin International, a global outplacement redeployment firm. Based in New York City, Mullin is a trusted leader in assisting companies engaged in critical management changes. Under Keith’s stewardship, Mullin brings a multi-dimensional approach to workforce redeployment, weaving 36 years of experience with 21st century proprietary technology. Mullin International is known for its innovation, passion and high standards when transitioning departing employees. The way companies and their employees part ways has completely changed. Job-hopping may be at an all-time high, but employers today understand that loyalty doesn't go away when employees walk out the door. In fact, according to just-released analytics from Mullin International, leveraging talent relationships is now seen as critical to the job search process, and even more so to a company's brand. Mullin has been collecting data on thousands of transitioning employees. We’re here today with Keith to break it all down - to better understand the employer-employee relationship.

This podcast episode features Jack 'Rusty' O'Kelley, head of board consulting and effectiveness practice at Russell Reynolds Associates, one of the world’s leading executive search and leadership consulting advisory firms. Russell Reynolds uses trends and insights culled from companies from around the globe to help its client base stay competitive. The firm’s consultants take this data to customize client-focused consulting solutions to meet their client’s talent and human capital management needs.

Nothing is more important to a company today than driving culture. What is sometimes overlooked is where this effort truly begins: in the boardroom – where every decision carries the weight of the organization on its back. Corporate boards, therefore, need to be recognized, shaped and fostered for maximum effectiveness. Russell Reynolds Associates recently set out to capture the essence and behaviors that create a high performing board culture and that drive board effectiveness. We're here today with Mr. O'Kelley who co-authored this just-released report. His task is to break it all down for us, to take us inside the boardroom -- and to reveal how he and his colleagues are taking boards from good to great.

In this ‘Talent Talks’ podcast episode, Jason Hanold, CEO and managing partner of Hanold Associates, a specialist boutique focused on HR officer search and board recruiting, discusses with us the CHRO’s rise to the C-suite and the CEO / CHRO relationship. But changing times have helped to elevate the position to new heights. The CHRO, of course, has always played an essential role. For all the value that those who occupy the chief human resources officer seat have brought to their companies over the years, it is only now that the role has begun to claim the fullest respect and attention of top leadership. In partnership with CEOs, chief human resource officers (CHROs) are playing increasingly critical roles to ensure companies win the war for talent and maximize employee motivation across the globe. Listen Now.

In this ‘podcast episode, Chuck Cain, a senior partner with Harvard Group International, discusses the evolving relationship between sports teams and executive search firms. Mr. Cain, who leads Harvard Group’s growing global sports, leisure entertainment practice, said that recruiters are being called in by sports teams and consumer brands to identify a host of leaders, from coaches and athletic directors to heads of marketing, finance, and sales as well as general manager roles.

The relationship between sports teams and executive search firms is rapidly expanding and now extends beyond merely recruiting. Seasoned recruiters are providing strategic planning advice with the capability of applying their findings to speed along the process in the hunt for talent. Mr. Cain is here with us today to break it all down. Listen Now.

In this third podcast episode of our 10-part podcast series, ‘Working with Millennials,’ we feature another highly informative discussion with Smooch Reynolds, IR communications functional search expert. According to Ms. Reynolds, if this generation holds true to their passions and interests then as a result four years from now they will play a much larger role in society and business and from this maturity they will be very different influencers on the political scene and in the workplace.”

Our comprehensive analysis of the 2016 Millennial electorate suggests that the youth turnout remained about the same as in 2012. Nothing, it seems, in this election cycle excited this important demographic group to get out their vote. The presidency is now set for the next four years, and for Millennials – like everyone else – its back to work time. Listen Now.

Smooch Reynolds is one of the most respected C-suite executive recruiters in the country. She’s currently an IR and Communications Functional Search Expert. She’s been an IR and communications functional search expert for more than 20 years, and before that she was, herself, a chief communications officer.

During the last 15 years, Smooch has added more than $300 billion in valuation to client organizations through her IRO search work and she remains a key behind-the-scenes advisor to CEOs about their corporate brand advancement. But Smooch has always been known as forward thinking. And today her insight is becoming just as invaluable in the sphere of young, up and coming millennial talent. In this second episode of our 10-part podcast series, ‘Working With Millennials,’ Smooch takes us inside the world of Millennials and politics. Listen Now.

Smooch Reynolds is one of the most respected C-suite executive recruiters in the country. She's currently an IR and communications functional search expert. She's been an IR and communications functional search expert for more than 20 years, and before that she was, herself, a chief communications officer.

During the last 15 years, Smooch has added more than $300 billion in valuation to client organizations through her IRO search work and she remains a key behind-the-scenes advisor to CEOs about their corporate brand advancement. Fortune Brand, Diebold, Hyatt Hotels Grant Thornton, American Water Works and a line of other leading companies come to Smooch for advice and counsel. But Smooch has always been known as forward thinking. And today her insight is becoming just as invaluable in the sphere of young, up and coming millennial talent. So who better to kick off this 10-part podcast series, 'Working With Millennials,' than this dynamic, highly sought after recruitment leader. Smooch takes us inside the world of Millennials, providing invaluable insight, smart tips and her unvarnished perspective. Listen Now.

This podcast episode features Russ Riendeau, partner at Jobplex, a DHR International company based in Chicago, where he’s been active in the executive search sector since 1985. He is the author of seven books on executive leadership, peak performance and sales strategies. With a Ph.D in behavioral psychology, Dr. Riendeau has served as an adjunct instructor at Northwestern University and General Electric’s in-house university.

Increasing the odds of successful hires – and then finding ways to retain them for longer periods of time – is now the holy grail of talent management leaders. Dr. Riendeau takes us through the hiring spectrum, focusing on the need for better training and how to get more value, while reducing risk, using proven interviewing techniques. His objective is to create a system of accountability for hiring managers – and to increase their success in hiring at all levels within their organizations. His insight is compelling, straightforward and is likely to reset how many hiring professionals approach the one task that they do every day: speaking with candidates.