Myth: Executive level jobs are best found through recruiters and fee-based, high level job boards.

Truth: Both recruiters and fee based executive level job boards can severely limit your job search and the responses you receive.

Executive recruiters can only help you if you have the exact qualifications to help them…fill their key search assignments that is.

And fee based job boards usually yield about 1% to maybe 7% response rates. You are going to have to send out a lot of resumes to get any response at all, and of course don’t forget about the intense amount of executive competition you will face for the very same job. Read the full story

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Looking from the perspective of the interviewer may well help you as you’ll have a good idea what they are looking for. This article, provided by Boyden Executive search looks at their selection criteria in a lot more detail.

Boyden professionals interview 15,000 executives each year. The interview and evaluation process is at the very core of their business, and the methods they have developed in over five decades of search work has been critical to the success of their organisation.

Within this article we examine the basics of the interviewing process, including a discussion of 12 of the most common interviewing errors. Read the full story

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