Why HR Isn’t Enough For Your Next Executive Hire
Executive recruiters specialize in hiring C-Suite professionals 365 days a year, giving their clients a clear advantage. Chances are, you have taken calls from an executive search firm. In fact, you may have found a job in the past with a headhunter. Still, many CEOs don’t utilize executive recruiters to make internal hires. In this
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Top 10 Executive Positions in High Demand for 2021
The global pandemic had a major impact on the business landscape in 2021. Companies all over the world had to quickly pivot their business strategies and services to stay active and relevant. This major upset also had a significant impact on business leadership needs. The C-suite spans approximately 58 job titles and covers everything from
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Why Use a Retained Executive Search Firm?
How you hire executive-level talent for your company is a critical decision that can impact your whole business. It’s estimated that onboarding a new employee can cost roughly $240,000, and that’s just for a senior manager position. This number covers hiring costs, compensation, and the price associated with maintaining an employee. If you make a
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How to Build a Successful Demand Generation Team
Demand generation marketing strategies are tactics used to generate interest and demand for a company’s products or services. What Is Demand Generation? Demand generation can include a variety of communication channels from blog posts and social media messaging to targeted promotions and list creation. When all is said and done, demand gen is typically involved
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When to Hire General Counsel
In an age when outsourcing is the trend, and companies are relying on outside contractors more than ever to help grow their business and expand their position in the marketplace, it can be difficult to know how and when to in source specialized professional services. Specially, when should a company invest in developing and hiring
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Why Nearly Half of All Executive Searches Fail
Thanks to technology, anytime you need to fill a position you can post the job online and have a plethora of applicants within a week. You would think that such a large applicant pool would make filling positions easy, but this isn’t always the case, especially when it comes to executive searches. Many people are
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Our Most Popular Articles of 2020
Cowen Partners is a national executive search firm and we give our clients access to the top 1% of human capital to create opportunities that accelerate their growth and market share. With Cowen Partners, clients can grow at scale, create value, and drive results with world class talent. Below are some of our most popular
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3 Executive Search Recruitment Practices to Develop Diversity in the Workplace
3 Executive Search Recruitment Practices to Develop Diversity in the Workplace Studies have proven that diversity and inclusion are good for business. Diverse teams are more innovative, more profitable, and simply more engaged. One study even found that companies with more diversity were 35 percent more likely to financially outperform competitors in the market. Even
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Defining a CTO
What Is a CTO? In an organization, a CTO is an executive-level position that has the responsibility of understanding and implementing the scientific and technological needs of the company in order to meet the business goals. For the technology-related matters, this is the company’s highest level of the executive position as a CTO holds the
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6 Important Skills to Look for in a Product Marketing Manager
The right product marketing strategy has the power to transform your business. A common mistake businesses make in product marketing, however, is focusing too much on the initial launch of a product. You don’t want to have a successful launch for the product or service to fall flat a few months later. Product marketing is
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