Name: Jared Redick
Company: The Resume Studio
Topic: Why Retained Executive Search Doesn’t Want Your Client’s Inbound Resume
When the world’s top companies need to find key members of their executive teams, they frequently invest considerable resources to hire one of the world’s retained executive search firms.
As part of the client company’s complex succession strategy, the search firm then mounts a many-month, needle-in-a-haystack search to find the ideal candidate.
Global and boutique executive search firms follow sophisticated search processes. Unfortunately, many resume writers, career counselors, and executives will never see inside the executive search process. For instance, did you know that a formal search often won’t include the expectation of an uninvited inbound resume?
The implications are vast.
Executive resume writer and former executive search consultant, Jared Redick, will help conference attendees better advise their senior executive clients by understanding the constructs, motivations, and limitations of retained executive search.
In this presentation, you will learn:
- The difference between retained executive search and contingency recruiting.
- Why retained search exists and how consultants find a typical candidate.
- How retained search has changed since 2000.
- Why original research trumps inbound resumes.
- How overdone resumes can turn off search consultants.
- Why knowing retained search practices will help career practitioners better write for and advise their executive clients.
- How LinkedIn is changing the game, and what your mid- and senior career executive clients should (and should not) consider to remain relevant.
Bio
Founder of The Resume Studio in San Francisco, CA, Jared Redick has fourteen years of resume writing experience. As an executive recruiter in New York and San Francisco for two nationally retained executive search firms, Jared conducted searches for Fortune 15 companies, national nonprofits, and beyond. Positions included CIO, COO, CAO, and CNO; VP, executive director, and development director; general counsel, in-house counsel / of counsel, and partner.
