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Talent Acquisition: Your Organization’s Most Important Return on Investment

Talent acquisition is your company’s most important investment If talent acquisition is critical to your success, what do you to prioritize it? What is the most crucial asset value of an employee? How can your organization go about identifying the best talent? What are the practices that characterize a successful executive search? So many questions. […]

Leadership Lessons from the Floor

Leadership, I’ve learned over the years, is multi-faceted. Unfortunately, what often happens is that over time we develop tunnel vision. It’s not intentional, of course. It’s the byproduct of having too many people, projects, deadlines. We start to operate on autopilot – to our own detriment. I recently had an experience where I was able […]

AUGUST 2018 TORCHLIGHT

SENIOR SALES AND MARKETING LEADERSHIP THAT CAN HELP YOUR COMPANY THRIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES Uncertain times often call for unusual decisions and actions as well as for leaders who are uncommonly capable and sufficiently skilled enough to make and follow through on them. This is the case in any sort of company, whether large or […]

Torch Group Places CEO at ZoomInfo

CLEVELAND, OH (August 1, 2018) — Following a national search, executive recruitment firm Torch Group has placed Derek Schoettle as the new CEO of Waltham, MA-headquartered ZoomInfo, the market leader in B2B contact and business information. Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm that provides private capital to finance the expansion, recapitalization or acquisition […]

Guillaume Muller-Greven Promoted to Manager of Client Solutions

CLEVELAND, July 23, 2018 – Torch Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Guillaume Muller-Greven to manager of client solutions. He joined Torch in October 2016 as a search operations specialist. He contributed to database research and management and candidate assessment. In June 2017, he started to transition into a sales and business development support […]

JULY 2018 TORCHLIGHT

Sales, Marketing, and Operations Executive Leadership for High-ROI, PE- and VC-Driven Companies The acronyms PE and VC have multiple meanings. For instance, the former can refer to price-to-earnings ratio, which is a company’s stock price divided by its annual earnings per share. The The latter, on the other hand, can refer to variable cost, a […]

You Need More Than Luck in an Interview

Preparation is key to a successful new position. One of the biggest mistakes candidates make is not being prepared for an interview. From learning about the prospective employer to understanding the position, investing the time can determine whether or not you are considered a viable candidate. 1. Research the organization. The job may look perfect […]

MAY 2018 TORCHLIGHT

The Marketing & Sales Executive Candidate Experience: A Bilateral Assessment Just as perception is reality and the whole is the sum of its parts, your company’s corporate brand, its employer brand, and its candidate experience are intertwined, each serving as a window into your company, its mission, and its culture.  This has never been truer than […]

Characteristics of an Exceptional Executive Recruiter – Part II

As a follow up to our last post, which featured a few of the key characteristics of a top performing executive recruiter, we wanted to highlight a few more to round out the list. The following list highlights the traits that really put a search specialist over the top. Organizational skills: Executive job searches often […]

Characteristics of an Exceptional Executive Recruiter – Part I

According to a report by talent consultant Kevin Sheridan, “86 percent of executive search firms feel they are doing a good job recruiting, yet only 60 percent of candidates report having a positive experience during the recruiting process with them.” Executive recruiters have the challenging task of ensuring their client (the hiring company) is satisfied […]
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