November Jobs Report
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment increased by 263,000 in November, still on a steady upward trajectory. This is a strong signal of economic resilience and growth, even…
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How Private Equity Uses Key Executive Hires to Transform the Beauty Industry
Beauty and skincare has long been dominated by a handful of companies like L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Gillette, Nivea and Guerlain. But as a younger cohort of consumers flock online, venture…
Social Shopping from TikTok to Instagram: The Skills Executives Need to Succeed in an Emerging Field
Those who work in retail industries know just how much e-commerce has transformed their business models over the past twenty years. But as usage of social media explodes, many companies…
The Unique Recruiting Challenges of Digitally Native Vertical Brands
ACCUR Recruiting Services has long experience recruiting executives in consumer facing companies, including beauty, fashion, wines and spirits, watches, jewelry and consumer packaged goods. We recruit CEOs, COOs, CFOs, Directors…
October Jobs Report
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment increased by 261,000 in October. Monthly job growth has averaged 407,000 thus far in 2022, compared with 562,000 per month in 2021,…
Hiring Executives for Agtech: From Vertical Farming to E-commerce Technology
Judging by the interest of venture capital firms, the “agtech” sector is poised for major growth. Why? Major companies and startups are always looking for ways of creating more efficient,…
Tips on Handling the Impact of Inflation on Salary Expectations
As inflation continues to surge, one of the biggest questions we get at ACCUR Recruiting Services is in regards to how to set salaries in a realistic range that reflects…
September Jobs Report
The September jobs report offered a mixed message to economic forecasters eager to see the impact of the Fed’s rate cuts on inflation and a potential recessionary threat. This report…
Chief Sustainability Officer: What it is and How to Hire One
A relatively new addition to the C-Suite, the role of “Chief Sustainability Officer” is getting a lot of buzz. Today we break it down: what it is and how to…
Becoming a Board Member: Tips for Executives
Board recruitment is increasingly a hot topic within the industries we serve here at ACCUR Recruiting Services. Why? In the past, board members were normally recruited from within, but corporate…
Chief Revenue Officer Vs. Sales Director: Which Do You Need?
A question that comes up frequently for us when working with high growth companies, especially in retail, is how to structure hires focused on sales and revenue, including the following…
Recruiting Board Members: How to Set Yourself Up for Success
While we most often do recruiting work for executive positions for companies in consumer packaged goods, luxury, cosmetics, hospitality, and other industries, from time to time we are asked to…
August Jobs Report
In August, employers added 315,000 jobs, which represented a cooling of hiring against fears of an economic slow-down. At the same time, the economic and jobs recovery seems to be…
Hiring For Fast-Growth, Private-Equity Backed Companies: What We Look For
Recently, we’ve been fielding more frequent hiring requests from private equity backed companies in industries like beauty, jewelry, sporting goods and other key consumer industries. We thought it would be…
Employer Branding 101: How to Use it to Attract & Retain Top Talent
Despite fears of a looming recession, the job market remains tight. And while we find that compensation and flexible work policies are the biggest factor in attracting talented candidates, a…
July 2022 Jobs Report
The economy added half a million jobs in July, signaling another strong month of economic growth and recovery. This happened against a backdrop of surging inflation and rate hikes that…
The Great Renegotiation: Leveraging Talent Pools in a Tight Market
The labor market during the coronavirus pandemic recovery has coming roaring back, making an already-tight labor market even more tricky to navigate. This has led to a situation that many…
How the Pandemic Changed Wholesale Distribution
The pandemic sparked changes to the wholesale business that are continuing to be felt as the nation deals with record inflation, changing consumer patterns and supply chain disruption. Today we…
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO): What is it and do you need it?
The particular challenges of this labor market, where hiring is strong and it’s difficult to find qualified candidates but there are also challenges around inflation and new demands for work-from-home…
June Jobs Report
June continued the trend of strong hiring with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that total nonfarm payroll employment has risen by 372,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained…
Post-Pandemic Job Shifts in Luxury Retail
We recently looked at the way the pandemic has transformed the economy in numerous ways, including: Changing where and how people work Changing the type of skills needed as the…
Post-Pandemic Job Shift: How Are Patterns of Employment Changing?
The economic recovery over the past year has been remarkable: most sectors have recovered their pre-pandemic levels of employment and the unemployment rate is almost as low as it was…
ACCUR in the News Roundup
As employers adapt to a post-pandemic hiring landscape, ACCUR Recruiting Services has been called on to comment on the world of recruiting in a tight labor market. Here are our…
May Jobs Report
Amid record high inflation and recessionary fears, the American economy added 390,000 jobs in May. This outperformed the forecasts of economists, and took place against a low employment rate of…
Head of E-commerce: What It is and How to Recruit for It
The pandemic has made the position “Head of E-commerce” hotter than ever. Businesses know how essential e-commerce is to their operations and the pandemic has only made it more essential…
From the Decade of the Customer to the Decade of the Employee
Have you heard the news? Thanks to changes to the economy wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are rapidly shifting gears from the “decade of the customer” to the “decade…
April Jobs Report: Assessing Growth
Employment increased by 428,000 in April, with the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at 3.6 percent, as reported recently by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report detailed job growth…
ACCUR Quoted in Newsweek on Return-to-Work Incentives
As companies increasingly look to incentives to get their employees back to the office, Newsweek reports on the growing divide between company expectations and worker desire to remain fully remote….
Forbes Recognizes ACCUR as a Top Recruiting Firm for 2022
For the fifth year in a row, Forbes has recognized ACCUR Recruiting Services with outstanding honors in their ranking of Top Executive Search firms and Professional Search firms for the…
Biggest Challenges of Fast-Growth Outdoor Companies
We’ve written previously about how the outdoor industry has experienced extraordinary growth over the past few years. According to research by an outdoor industry trade group, more than half of…
Why Luxury Beauty Brands are Increasing Hiring Executives with Amazon-Specific Skills
Amazon was long rejected by luxury beauty brands who achieved their luster through rarified exclusivity in the retail environment. But the growth of digital retail changed many minds in the…
ACCUR in the News: Business of Fashion
ACCUR Recruiting Services founder Edouard Thoumyre was just quoted in a Beauty feature in the publication Business of Fashion on the topic of the challenges of hiring top executives in…
March Jobs Report
The March jobs report was one of the most newsworthy yet, with a total gain of 431,000 nonfarm employment, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Notably, the…
How Geographic Mobility Affects Salaries in the Age of Remote Work
So many of our dearly held expectations in the recruiting industry have been upended during the COVID-19 pandemic: Remote work and flexible schedules were already a big trend but the…
Russian Sanctions and Impact on Core Industries
We’ve all been watching the news of the unfolding war in Ukraine, and our hearts go out to all of those affected by the conflict. Over the past month as…
Inflation and the Job Market: How the Economy Influences Hiring Decisions
Inflation was again making headlines last week as Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, signaled that aggressive measures were called for in handling a surging level of…
Salary Talk: Coping with Inflation and its Impact on Recruiting
One of the biggest questions we get from our clients nowadays relates to the incredible acceleration of salary expectations against rising economic inflation. Workers are facing higher costs from their…
Inside the February Jobs Report
It’s been another blockbuster month on the jobs front with 678,000 jobs added in February, surprising economists with one of the largest gains since the beginning of the pandemic. One…
Influencer Marketing and the Beauty Industry: How to Recruit the Best Candidates
The beauty industry is poised to grow from $420B in 2018 to $716.3B by 2025, according to Upfluence. Among thousands of products, the quest for brand differentiation is never-ending, meaning…
Marketing on TikTok: What it is and How to Recruit for it
TikTok is seemingly everywhere. The Chinese social network, originally launched in 2016 by ByteDance, has taken the globe by storm, and is especially popular among the tween and teen consumers…
Influencer Marketing in the Wine & Spirits Industry: Everything You Need to Know
The alcohol beverage market is poised for growth: it is expected to increase by nearly 19 percent by the year 2024. And savvy folks in the wines & spirits industry…
January 2022 Jobs Report
The January 2022 Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stunned analysts with blockbuster numbers: a whopping 467,000 jobs added despite the Omicron wave tempering growth expectations. Even those…
Executive Recruiting in NYC in 2022: Special Opportunities and Challenges
The omnicron surge of the Coronavirus hit the New York City economy particularly hard. Consider some of the following stats from recent months: At the same time, many industries have…
E-commerce Executive Recruiting: Important Trends for 2022
Over the past few years, the demand for talented e-commerce executives — whether for top marketing managers, directors of digital, social media gurus, chief growth officers or some other leader…
Strategies for Hiring Key Executive Roles in a Private Equity Backed Company
Private equity backed companies are a unique challenge to recruit for. On the one hand, these types of companies need executives with proven track records, on the other hand, even…
Taking Stock of a Turbulent Year in Hiring with 8 Recruiting Predictions for 2022
As we look back on 2021 and look forward to what 2022 has in store for hiring and executive recruiting, we here at ACCUR are grateful for the growth and…
November Jobs Report: A Mixed Picture on Hiring
November has delivered moderate job gains of 210,000, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The most notable job gains occurred in professional and business…
8 Must-Read Newsletters for Anyone Hiring or Wanting to Get Hired
Newsletters are increasingly a good way to stay abreast of major topics in the news that affect hiring. Here are some of our go-to sources of information, worth a subscribe…
Influencer Marketing: What it Is And How to Hire for It
The rise of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok has also given rise to a new type of celebrity, the “social media influencer,” in other words an individual…
Behind Successful Celebrity-Owned Brands Look for Seasoned Executives
As social media continues to dominate our lives, celebrity-owned brands are attaining greater prominence, and a number of them have grown beyond the association of their famous founders and into…