The Companies Headhunters Avoid
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The Companies Headhunters Avoid
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#2Amazing article! Short version: Recruiters dont want to recruit from large successful companies, because they either breed incompetents (it doesn't matter if you suck when you work at Coca Cola business is good anyway), or psycopaths (The take no prisoners culture at Oracle, EMC), or paranoid politicos (Intel)...
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#3It's interesting that the executive recruiters seemingly were concerned with the success of the winning candidate. I've had countless IT recruiters take more interest in the sale-ability of a person vs. the result of the placement. I guess the high-end recruiters make their money through reputation (in the eyes of both execs and corporate boards).
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#4"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" Steve Jobs to John Sculley
History suggests that he should have stuck to selling sugared water.
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#5I've heard similar things said about (non-developers) from Microsoft. A dev job at MSFT is probably as challenging as any equivalent dev role anywhere, but project, program, and product management at Microsoft is heavyweight and idiosyncratic.
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#6It's interesting that the executive recruiters seemingly were concerned with the success of the winning candidate. I've had countless IT recruiters take more interest in the sale-ability of a person vs. the result of the placement. I guess the high-end recruiters make their money through reputation (in the eyes of both execs and corporate boards).
At the upper levels of recruiting, the amount of effort that probably goes in to pushing a single candidate might make a recruiter think twice about pushing someone who'd be negged as a culture mismatch. Executive recruiting isn't like normal recruiting.
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#7"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" Steve Jobs to John Sculley History suggests that he should have stuck to selling sugared water.
History also suggests that Jobs would have been better off not asking him that question.
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#8Very interesting.
This was about managers and executives, but are there any companies out there that are known to have a poisoned technical or design culture?
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#10I think it's sad/funny there is no mention of how a middle aged white man (with C-level experience of course) is best qualified to revitalize and revolutionize a makeup company.
How many female product/service industries are "lead" by middle aged white men...scary when you think about it.