
A new era of talent hunting has begun. It’s happening not only at high-tech companies such as Facebook, but also at Army bases, ad agencies, investment banks, Hollywood studies, corporate boardrooms, college admissions offices, and even at nanny agencies. In all these fields, experts don’t just sort résumés. They pick people and build teams in a profoundly different way. Traditional measures of past achievement, such as test scores and academic degrees, are losing power, and companies are getting better at looking for those future superstars who deliver many times the value of someone who is merely good.
How long does it take a $150k+ salaried executive in transition to find a new career home at a suitable income in 2011? Jerry Labadia, Account Executive for ExecuNet career professional services provided this chart, based on their own Execs-in-transition database:
So, good hunting. If your executive situation is pulled from under you, prepare for a long ride to new employment!
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v.44.0: Buy A Car
v.43.0: June Gloom
v.42.0: Q2--The economy rebounded
v.41.0: Ring out the old
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v.39.0: Whew! Survived 2009!
v.38.0: Winning the Recession
v.37.0: Kick Starting the Recovery in ‘09
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