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Steer Your Career to a Higher Level–With Expert Advice from Top Recruiters
With so few mid- and senior-level positions open, competition is tougher than ever in today’s job market. With a slow economy and worldwide downsizing, executive-level job seekers need to rethink and restructure their career plans. In The Career Navigation Handbook, twenty-three leading executive recruiters offer their invaluable insight and professional advice on choosing and changing career paths. With leading headhunters like Gerard Roche of Heidrick & Struggles and Peter Crist of Crist Associates, you’ll get the kind of inside look at the executive search process that you can’t find anywhere else.
The long experience and unique wisdom of these contributors helps you understand the issues you face and take your career in the right direction. From spotting the opportunities that exist to making yourself more attractive to employers, The Career Navigation Handbook covers every vital topic in the job-search process, including:
- Emerging trends in the executive world
- Evaluating the career landscape in the new economy
- Positioning yourself as the competition increases
- Knowing what to expect from a top-notch recruiter
- Changing opportunities in the global landscape
- Special advice for female executives
- And today’s new breed of CEO
With world-class insight on promising industries–from retail to real estate and everything in between–and hot subjects like leadership, character, and ethics, The Career Navigation Handbook is an unbeatable source of powerful career guidance for executives in any stage of their career.
About the Author
CHRISTOPHER HUNT is President and cofounder of Hunt-Scanlon, the leading trade and reference publisher for the executive search, human resource, and human capital industries.
SCOTT SCANLON is Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Hunt-Scanlon.
