Professional Executive Recruiting (Emerging Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the professional executive recruiting industry, primarily in the United States.

Emerging Industry Overview: Professional Executive Recruiting

Industry Snapshot

With annual salaries over $250,000, top-level executives are not exactly perusing the newspaper classifieds in search of new positions. Instead, professional executive recruiting services, also known as headhunting services, assist executives in finding their next positions, even when many of them are not actually looking for new jobs.

Back in the 1980s, nearly three-quarters of professionally-employed executives expected to change careers three or fewer times. But, reflecting the general changes in the U.S. business practices and economy over the last decades of the twentieth century, there was new understanding among top-level employees...

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