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Stanton Chase's Steven Brown explores the challenges CIOs face as they find themselves wearing several hats in order to meet the demands of a fast-paced, evolving business climate. 

As the executive search industry becomes inundated with software solutions, it’s important to remember which tools truly allow you to automate administrative tasks while leaving the human element intact.  A good executive search system will help you manage your time effectively, enhance employee engagement and most of all increase your firm’s revenue.

This is a guest blog, written by Wan Pang, Managing Director at Reccelerate

Are you trying to build or grow the leadership consulting side of your business? I talk to more and more executive search firms that are doing just that. If you’re among them, you’d probably like to know some of the challenges that your clients are facing with respect to identifying and developing leaders. Well, you’re in luck! The results from a global study we recently conducted offer some fascinating insights – and opportunities.

Data security has become one of the principal concerns executive search firms have today. Candidate and client data is the foundation of any successful search firm and your firm’s largest asset. Where is your data living?  How is it secured? Who is responsible? What steps do you need to take in case of a predictable ‘disaster’? These are questions your search firm should know the answers to.

The executive search industry generated $12.4 billion in revenue globally in 2015. How many direct competitors do you have in your market? What are you doing to make your firm stand out in that crowd? Find out how in this guest blog post by Ian Cameron of The McQuaig Institute.