Category Archives: Recent Statistics

Poaching & Promoting

It’s the new job search game … poach a qualified candidate and then leave the poached company to promote from within. Well, maybe not “new” as much as today it comes with different rules. Take, for example, the recent poaching … Continue reading

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CFOs Really Can Move On and Up!

Business Finance Magazine recently published an article about the many choices open to CFOs, once they’ve made the decision to move on to bigger and maybe better options. The author included 8 keys he felt would provide career attractiveness to … Continue reading

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Mattisms

I always enjoy reading the FENG (Financial Executives Networking Group) newsletter Matt Bud sends out several times a week. If you are a financial executive or CFO and you aren’t a member of FENG and receiving the newsletter, I do … Continue reading

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CFOs: Evolution | Industry Experience | Age Discrimination

A couple weeks ago I did a webinar on Proformative entitled “Getting to the CFO Chair.” You can find the entire webinar here, but let me mention a couple of points in light of the numerous articles that have come … Continue reading

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CFOs and CMOs Trump CIOs

This is a controversy that just might give the CPA vs. non-CPA controversy a run for its money. First it was the Chief Financial Officer driving COOs out of their jobs. We’ve seen that evolving for about 5 years now. … Continue reading

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CPA CFOs … the Continuing Saga

There is no hot button in the finance space like the CPA-non-CPA credential controversy for CFOs. Not intending to add fuel to the fire, but merely to point out a few recent articles that may – or may not – … Continue reading

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Executive Job Market Intelligence Report

Career practitioners eagerly await publication of Execunet’s Job Market Intelligence Report every year, and the 2012 edition is due out in early spring. But, Execunet has released some new trends from its 20th annual issue, and with its permission, I’m … Continue reading

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Recruiter Relationships

A few months ago, the C-Suite Career Catalysts asked C-level and Senior Executives a few questions about their experiences working with recruiters. One of the fascinating responses came from a question about what they (Executives) value in recruiter relationships. Among … Continue reading

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Recruiters – a Necessary Evil for CFOs?

Say the word “recruiter” to a CFO and you just don’t know what response you might get … but it’s almost always emotive. There is a real love/hate relationship and most of it depends on their most recent experience. As … Continue reading

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CFOs and Their Career Moves

Two interesting articles came out this week. I’ve pulled a relevant excerpt from each and added my commentary following each quote. The first article is from CFO.com … “Job Hunting CFOs by the Numbers.” Turnover among large-company CFOs is outpacing … Continue reading

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