Sam Altman & OpenAI: The Executives Behind the Crisis
Sam Altman was fired and finally rehired in 48h. What is the executive team behind the crisis.
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Hiring a Chief Growth Officer, A Growing Trend Among Top Companies
Discover why leading firms are adding a Chief Growth Officer to their C-suite to drive innovation and sustainable business expansion.
Recruiting Executives for Wines & Spirits Brands: How We Scale Our Approach
Here at ACCUR Recruiting Services, we are often tasked with finding executives who specialize in wines & spirits and other alcoholic beverages for a variety of different companies. Wines &…
March 2023 Jobs Report
Job growth was moderated in March but continued to grow, to the tune of 236,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industries most positively affected…
How to Build an Compelling Executive Equity Package
Due to our work with private equity and venture capital backed startup operations, we are often asked to advise about creating an attractive compensation package for an executive, which often…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Marketing Execs Can Meet the High Demand for Digital Skills Head On
There’s no two ways about it: marketing executives with strong digital skills have never been in higher demand. The digital transformation of business has required strong digital skills for the…
What is a VP of Growth and Do You Need One?
Along with positions like Chief Revenue Officer, VP of Growth is a relatively new executive position that attempts to fuse the world of sales, marketing, and product development into a…
Making the Most of Internal Talent in a Tight Labor Market
As the economy tightens and the competition remains fierce to retain the most talented workers, many companies are searching for innovative ways to retain talent. As with many thorny business…
Best and Worst Cities for Remote Workers
A recent survey by Telstra Ventures looked at 371,000 jobs posted between April and June 30th of this year to find out what cities were most receptive to remote workers….
Staying Ahead of The Great Talent Migration
The American workforce is changing rapidly thanks to job mobility, a still-tight labor market, and technological advances. You could say that this change has been in the works for years…
4 Key Considerations for Your Return-To-Office Plan
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate culture was so instantaneous and radical that even as life begins going back to “normal,” those in charge of making decisions about…
Pandemic Resource Roundup for E-Commerce, Luxury Retail, Beauty, Food & Wine and More
As we approach the one year anniversary of COVID-related shutdowns to the economy, we wanted to take a step back and examine all of the myriad ways businesses have had…
Improving Online Meetings and Interviews
As remote work becomes more prominent in everyone’s lives, we’re bringing you new tips and articles on making your remote workforce more successful and efficient from the hiring process to…
Hiring a Remote Team: How to Conduct a Candidate Search
The COVID-19 pandemic is upending conventional practices in all kinds of businesses, and has quickly cascaded to the hiring process. Many employers are starting to see the value of making…
Remote Positions: How To Set Your Company Up For Success
When COVID-related lockdowns first hit the world’s corporate offices, executives rushed to get their employees working from home and (hopefully) continuing to contribute productively. Now, as lockdowns ease and companies…
ACCUR Recognized by Hunt Scanlon
Following shortly after our recent recognition by Forbes as a Top 100 Executive Recruiting Firm, ACCUR Recruiting Services is proud to be listed among some of the world’s biggest and…
Most Highly Sought Digital & E-commerce Skills for Post-Pandemic Retail
As many parts of the country begin the process of reopening to customers with new safeguards in place, we are watching a rapid transformation of the retail space that requires…
Quick Tips for Crafting a Successful Work-From-Home Policy
ACCUR Recruiting Services has long been set up to accommodate remote work — that’s part of what allows us to serve many cities all over the world and coordinate fully…
How Major Companies are Getting Serious About Climate Change
We’ve written previously about how important sustainable development strategies are for employee retention. Turns out that companies are increasingly getting serious about concrete plans to mitigate climate change through their…
9 of the Best Free Online Resources for Boosting Your Marketing Knowledge
In the past fifteen years, the field of marketing has gone through a complete digital transformation, which in turn has demanded unprecedented flexibility and adaptability from within the profession’s executive…
Hire Digitally Literate Candidates by Asking the Right Questions
The advent of digital media has made the task of recruiting for large marketing organizations much more challenging. Marketing execs used to have the luxury of taking weeks or months…
Five Goals for Talent Acquisition in 2020
The beginning of the year always gets us to thinking about goals, everything from eating better to attaining a more optimal work-life balance. Companies, too, can benefit from this time…
ACCUR Decade in Review
What a decade it’s been in the world of executive recruiting! We have a host of new technological innovations promising to make our jobs easier and our candidate-company matches even…
ACCUR Year in Review for 2019
As we prepare for both a new year and a new decade, we here at ACCUR Recruiting Services are looking back on a year filled with change, recognition and new…
6 Eco-friendly Strategies that Your Employees Will Love (And Will Save You Money)
We recently did a poll of our database of employees on what non-compensation-related amenities most influence their job satisfaction. We were surprised to find that “eco-friendly development strategy” ranked at…
ACCUR Explainer: Interview Questions Do’s and Don’ts
Please note: This post is not intended to provide legal guidance. Please consult with you attorney for the relevant law in your locality. We’ve previously created a guide to interview…
Insight Report: What Types of Professional Development Do Workers Want?
As part of a continuing series to bring you intelligence from the workforce, we learned that workers prize employers who offered professional development. Because that type of development can take…
Work-from-home & Remote Work Policies: Are They For You?
We recently did a survey on what non-financial perks drive employee satisfaction the most, and there was a clear winner: work-from-home policies come out on top. When you look at…
Insight Report: The Perks That Really Drive Job Satisfaction
We all know we are operating a competitive job market. One of the most frequent questions we get is how to both attract and retain top talent. Of course, salary…
What is a Chief Revenue Officer and Why Would You Want to Hire One?
“Chief Revenue Officer” is a relatively new addition to the C-Suite, but it’s proving popular with a number of mainstream companies. So popular, in fact, that some are even eliminating…
End of Summer Resource Roundup
As summer comes to a close, we know many of our colleagues are out there enjoying barbecues, hitting the beach, and, of course, gearing up for an energetic Q4 and…
When to Consider an RPO
In addition to offering our clients the typical retained or contingency executive recruiting services, ACCUR Recruiting Services is sometimes contacted to be an “RPO provider.” In this article, we want…
Customs in Working Hours Around the World
“If you’re not planning to work on Saturday, don’t even bother coming in one Sunday,” is an old saying that is sometimes attributed to legendary workaholic Walt Disney. The subject…
Do You Have a Talent Acquisition Strategy?
Companies that are able to attract and retain the best talent year after year, regardless of whether the economy is up or down, don’t achieve that enviable position simply by…
How to Find and Hire a Great Recruiter
The search for executive talent often involves a recruiter for the simple reason that you want to be able to have as many options as possible when hiring. You need…
Candidates: 3 Thing You Can Expect from a Great Recruiter (and 3 Things You Can’t)
We recently wrote a resource guide on how to successfully work with an executive recruiter, aimed at giving you the candidate more insight on how recruiters work and what role…