Career Strategy: Dreams vs. Reality

One aspect of our work is to help our clients figure out their next step; help them prepare a career strategy; guide them through the options the job market has to offer. And then a big part of our job is to motivate job seekers to do what they should be doing, to make sure they stay focused on the important and to finish what they have started which usually is a desired career change. When they get side-tracked, we know that it very often stems from self-handicapping.

But, what motivates us? What kind of career paths do we have? Who are the people behind hundreds of successful job changes of experienced managers and (senior) executives across Europe?

We’d like to introduce some of our team members through mini-interviews of 5 questions.

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Internationally Mobile Managers

Big part of our job is to motivate job seekers to do what they should be doing, to make sure they stay focused on the important and to finish what they have started which usually is a desired career change. When they get side-tracked, we know that it very often stems from self-handicapping.

But, what motivates us? Who are the people behind hundreds of successful job changes of experienced managers and (senior) executives across Europe?

We’d like to introduce some of our team members through mini-interviews of 5 questions.

Read more

Self-handicapping in practice

Big part of our job is to motivate job seekers to do what they should be doing, to make sure they stay focused on the important and to finish what they have started which usually is a desired career change.

But who are the people behind hundreds of successful job changes of experienced managers and (senior) executives across Europe? What motivates us?

This post introduces Anna, one of our team members, through a mini-interview of 5 questions. One of them discussing tips on self-handicapping.

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What motivates the motivator

Big part of our job is to motivate job seekers to do what they should be doing, to make sure they stay focused on the important and to finish what they have started which usually is a desired career change. When they get side-tracked, we know that it very often stems from self-handicapping.

But, what motivates us? Who are the people behind hundreds of successful job changes of experienced managers and (senior) executives across Europe?

We’d like to introduce some of our team members through mini-interviews of 5 questions.

Read more

Networking… overrated

“There are no available jobs for me. I told you, you need to know somebody to get a job… and I don’t know anybody…”, we hear these and similar comments from experienced managers who are actively looking for a new job.

There are three aspects to consider:

Aspect 1) Diversification
Looking at our statistics of sources of accepted job offers “networking” consistently scored approx. 20%. Only 20%. Irrespectively of industry and country. Ask yourself:

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Interview with CEO Konrad Kopyra

Sandra Bichl: Konrad, thank you very much for your time to meet me and answer my questions.

Konrad Kopyra: The pleasure is all mine.

Sandra Bichl: How do you look for candidates on executive positions? How often do the recruitments happen and how are they conducted? Read more

Joanna Sztandur on Legal Recruitment

Sandra Bichl: How do international law firms search for Partners?

Joanna Sztandur: Based on my experience, there are two main ways to recruit new Partners: (1) networking and (2) the databases, market knowledge and professionalism of headhunting companies. The markets in CEE are relatively small and people holding such positions know each other from university, the Bar Training, industry-related events or participating in projects Read more