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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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
After a sluggish economic picture in September, in October, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 531,000, and the unemployment rate edged down by 0.2 percentage point to 4.6 percent, the…
Since its founding in 2014 with an initial product launch of only four core items, Glossier has grown into a $1.8 billion dollar beauty juggernaut beloved by the most coveted…