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There are many instances when our clients engage us to build out teams. It could be an entire executive team, a finance team, a marketing team, or a sales team. That is why so many organizations rely on The Tolan Group to do mid-level or departmental talent hiring because we know the organization, their culture, and our very talented Client Delivery Team led by Rachel Gauthier, always delivers. 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬! Our success/completion rate remains at 98% which we are very proud of, and nearly 90% of our clients use our firm over and over because of the great work we do. So, whether we are called on to fill a single role or to help our client’s build entire teams - we can help. Here is a great example of how our team delivered great talent across multiple functional roles for the same client.    𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦!  #ttgexecutivesearch #teambuildout

𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. The promise to Floridians that the archaic fall ritual of turning back the clock has once again not been resolved. In March 2023, Senator Marco Rubio reintroduced the 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 for the 118th Congress to put an end to the antiquated practice of changing clocks twice a year. I complain about this every year and this year will be no different. Makes no sense.    While I realize there are arguments on both sides of this debate, my vote is to let the sun continue to shine without the need to go back an hour. I despise it – think it’s dumb but that is my opinion. So there. Now you have it.    I’m done! #sunshineprotectionact #stoptheclocks

𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 We are winding down the work-from-home model. Employers are tired of the results and challenges of managing a remote/virtual workforce. 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 for landlords of commercial buildings that have largely been empty and unoccupied for years now: some tenants have renegotiated leases, vacated, or, worse, defaulted on their lease. 𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 for employees who have enjoyed real work-life balance (some might say too much!), more time with their kids, and perhaps lower daycare costs. 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 for nearby restaurants and bars located near offices, which have laid off staff as they watched mid-day foot traffic and the after-work crowd slow to a trickle while they barely made ends meet financially. 𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 for Zoom calls, which were eerily close to becoming the new way of meeting, selling, learning, and connecting with other team members in front of a screen. 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 for company culture, team building, and collaboration, as some say there is nothing like meeting face-to-face. Let’s face it – the virtual work environment versus the traditional brick-and-mortar environment are two extremes that both have positive and negative aspects depending on who is/was impacted. What I do believe is that some form of hybrid is probably here to stay. It just won’t be as black or white as it’s been since 2020. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤? 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 If you want to end your chances of getting an offer from your dream employer, here are four ways to guarantee you will not move to the next round of interviews. The key things they will be watching for include: • Dishonesty • Rude Language / Behavior • Disparaging Employees/Employers • Lack of Preparation It’s all here in this Harvard Business Review article, along with advice on how best to avoid stepping into any of these four landmines. This is excellent advice, and I encourage you to read this article to help you avoid making any of these mistakes! #aceyourinterview #ttgexecutivesearch https://lnkd.in/eT8BMduq

The results are in from my poll from last week… The basis of the poll was to ask followers if AI could replace the role of an executive search consultant.    It wasn’t even close! Personal human interaction, presenting and negotiating offers, and reaching out to passive candidates are the main reasons why AI can’t replace a search consultant in the search process. Sure, there are steps in the process that AI can help streamline, but let’s face it—we’re in the people business. Plain and simple.   That sort of says it all. #ttgexecutivesearch #thetolangroup

𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞   2:17 PM Hey there Tim!  I know how hard it is to find an engineering job and i want to help. Check out our website to have your resume looked at by an actual engineering manager. Hopefully, we can help make your application undeniable! Best of luck & thanks for connecting. ~𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥𝘐𝘯 𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞?). 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫:   • Greeting me as if we are buddies. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵. 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸… • Approaching me with an engineering job. I am the founder of an executive search firm I started almost 20 years ago and NOT an engineer. 𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴. 𝘕𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦. • Promising me we can help make my application “undeniable”. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥. • Best of luck and thanks for connecting. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘐 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥.   𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦 - 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘡𝘌𝘙𝘖 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵? 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 (𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠…): 𝘶𝘩 𝘪 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞… 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥.

The Tolan Group is pleased to announce a recent placement for one of our clients. We have been delivering human capital solutions for healthcare services, behavioral health, and health tech PE and Venture-backed portfolio companies since 2005. #ttgexecutivesearch

Our own Tim Russell is working the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas this week. Nobody works a conference like Tim and no doubt he and his BD Team including Carly McCann, Kevin Bijas and Andrew Walkes will all be busy with outreach and follow up in the coming days and weeks! Thats how we do it at The Tolan Group!

I shared a post about AI in the search industry and would like to know your opinion!

Search consultants are evaluating AI as a tool to help in the recruiting process. Are there any valuable parts of the search process that could be improved using AI? 100%. Absolutely! Are there component pieces that AI can’t improve in the search process? 100%. Absolutely! I will never be convinced that any executive-level (passive) candidate, happily and gainfully employed, will be influenced by a BOT, or email or text message scripts written by ChatGPT, to leave their job to take another job without human intervention. Won’t happen. Too many (human) dynamics are at play. Those AI tools might pique the candidate’s interest, but that’s where it ends. The art of having a meaningful conversation to understand a candidate’s motivation and career goals, and building a long-term relationship, happens between two humans. It requires a two-way dialogue, not an automated process using a bot as the HR department’s proxy to convince an executive to make a career change. I think search firms and HR teams should embrace AI to improve the recruitment process, enhance repetitive tasks, help create job descriptions (I said help — not perform this task without modification by a human), and other things that increase productivity. However, the art of having a conversation with someone you have an emotional connection with, to convince them to make a change and then help guide and shepherd them through a career transition, takes place between two living, breathing human beings, not through technology. Recruiting, in so many ways, is a long process with lots of steps and many twists and turns along the way. No two search processes are ever the same. One man’s opinion. I welcome yours! https://lnkd.in/ed-zB279