Quality-Driven Executive Search

QUALITY-DRIVEN EXECUTIVE SEARCH

The way a beautifully engineered car performs, the feel and fit of custom-tailored clothes, or the teamwork of a championship ball club: these are intrinsically understood as "quality."

In business matters, particularly senior-level recruitment, quality is not always so clear nor so easily defined.  Human foibles or life's exigencies - a spouse reluctant to move 1000 miles away from aging parents, for instance - impact high quality results.  In the final analysis, however, it is client-perceived performance that counts, and not the supplier's process that matters.  "How did the executive perform?" not "How was he or she recruited?".  "How well does the new executive's style fit the organization?" not "How many offices does the recruiting firm operate?".

When a candidate and organization are just right for each other, and fit together as do two critical pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, that

is "quality".  Search excellence is verified when the new executive applies vigor and vision exponentially above and beyond the job specifications.

Why do some search firms consistently achieve quality?  How can this kind of quality be quantified?  How can buyers maximize their recruitment investment?  To examine these questions, we looked first at some current quality topics.

Updated November  2001
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DIECKMANN & ASSOCIATES, LTD

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