Executive Skills
Today we had a guest speaker who was here to talk about executive search. Ignacio Macaya is a business who runs a business called Macaya Consulting & Executive Research. This business helps out clients who are looking for an employee in the higher up executive levels of the company. His business helps save the clients time and effort looking for someone theirselves as they still need to run their business and production.
As the presentation was mainly Q & A we had a lot of time to ask him questions and really understand what he does, and how important this type of job is. It's interesting how much work goes into recruiting potential employees. He says telling us that it could take as little as 1 month or as long as 18 months, it all depends on the company.
Some of the things that I learned for myself to improve on in the future if I am ever put into a situation which I am competing against others for a job I will need:
- Great interview skills
- Eye to eye contact
- Body Language
- Summarizing question (don't speak too much about one topic)
- Relate your answers to the company goals
- Know about the company you could be potentially working for
- Look the part
- Show you're motivated
- Linkedin Profile
- Make it informational
- Well structured
- Professional writing
- Stand-out compared to others
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