Field notes from the executive job market.
Long-form essays for senior leaders by a former executive recruiter. No motivation, no platitudes: what is changing in executive hiring, what is working, and what is quietly broken.
What Is Reverse Recruiting? A Former Executive Recruiter's Definition
Reverse Recruiting is executive search run for the candidate. What a reverse recruiter does, how it differs from a recruiter or a coach, what it costs, and how to spot a résumé mill.
Read the essayThe Reverse Recruitment Method™: How a Candidate-Side Executive Search Actually Runs
The four stages of the Reverse Recruitment Method™, week by week: target mapping, positioning, outreach in the client's name and pipeline to offer, and what the client sees at each.
Read the essayIs Reverse Recruiting Legitimate? Seven Questions That Separate a Real Practice From a Résumé Mill
The label is being attached to very different services. A former executive recruiter sets out seven questions that separate a genuine Reverse Recruiting practice from a relabelled résumé service.
Read the essayIs a Professionally Written Executive Résumé Worth the Money?
A professionally written executive résumé is worth the money under three conditions. What good looks like, realistic timelines, and when the résumé is the wrong purchase.
Read the essayMost Executive Jobs Are Never Posted: The Four Channels That Decide How Fast a Senior Search Moves
Roughly 70% of executive jobs are never posted. The four channels senior roles actually move through, how long each takes, and where to spend your search time.
Read the essayOn the iCareerSolutions blog.
Practical guides published on the firm's site, written for professionals and executives who want someone to run the search for them.
Can you hire someone to find you a job?
icareersolutions.comReverse recruiter vs recruiter vs career coach
icareersolutions.comHow long until Reverse Recruiting produces interviews?
icareersolutions.comThe recruiter phone screen is an interview
icareersolutions.comShould I hire someone to optimize my LinkedIn profile?
icareersolutions.comQuietly exploring your next move?
A 20-minute confidential call establishes fit on both sides. No pitch, no script. If the method is right for your situation, a written scope follows within 48 hours.