HEAD HUNTERS

HEAD HUNTERS | November 22, 2016

Nick Corcodilos started headhunting in Silicon Valley in 1979 and has answered over 30,000 questions from the Ask The Headhunter community. In this special Making Sen$e edition of Ask The Headhunter, Nick shares insider advice and contrarian methods about winning and keeping the right job, on one condition: that you, dear Making Sense reader, send Nick your questions about your personal challenges with job hunting, interviewing, networking, resumes, job boards or salary negotiations. No guarante...

HEAD HUNTERS | November 09, 2016

Urban Outfitters’ international HR director has joined Princedale Partners as a headhunter after a decade at brand portfolio company URBN. Jamie Homer, whose role included business development, helped to build URBN’S brands, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People, hiring management roles for all three. Homer spent his previous three years at URBN in a business development role, establishing its presence in seven new markets across Europe, the Middle East and Asia....

Head Hunters | November 05, 2016

If you look at the history of Flipkart, for a long time their recruitment and HR activities were handled by the chief product manager. Now, these people did not have the understanding of HR activities and would offer people a lot of money,” said Sethi. “Senior guys such as Puneet Soni have quit because they come from companies like Google where there is a very strong work culture, which Flipkart failed to build....

Head Hunters | June 21, 2016

Back in the 20th century, employers actually reviewed resumes by reading them rather than scanning them into a computerized ranking system. The keyword game has turned hiring into a pass-the-buck game, with HR complaining it can’t find talent! Well, HR isn’t looking for talent. HR isn’t looking for anything. Phony algorithms are keeping the talent unemployed while HR gets paid to do something else....