Recruiting Resources
Hiring FP&A Talent: Why the Best Analysts Aren’t Accountants (and How to Interview for the Difference)
Most FP&A searches screen for Excel and accounting, then get analysts who can’t influence the business. The profile that performs, the interview case that reveals it, and 2026 market realities.
The CPA Shortage Isn’t Ending: How to Hire Accountants in a Permanently Tight Market
The CPA shortage is structural, not cyclical — and it has climbed from staff level to controllers. How the pipeline broke, and what employers who still fill their accounting seats do differently.
How to Hire a CFO: Matching the Finance Leader to the Company You’re Becoming
The costliest CFO mistake is hiring a good finance person built for a different company. How to pick your CFO archetype, dodge the controller-in-disguise trap, and run the search properly.
Succession Planning Isn’t an HR Document — It’s the Cheapest Executive Search You’ll Ever Run
Unplanned executive vacancies cost months of leadership vacuum and maximum candidate leverage. What working succession planning looks like — and where market mapping fits in.
Retained vs. Contingent Search: What You’re Actually Paying For (and When Each Makes Sense)
Retained vs. contingent search isn’t a pricing debate — they sell different products to different candidate pools. Here’s what each model actually buys and when to use which.
Executive Compensation in 2026: How to Benchmark C-Suite and VP Packages Without Losing the Candidate
Executive offers fail on structure, not salary. How to benchmark C-suite and VP compensation in 2026 across all five package components — and why survey data misleads.
CEO and Board Search: How Directors Should Run the Most Important Hire They’ll Ever Make
CEO searches fail in predictable ways: over-correcting for the last leader, hiring from the board’s network, and leaking the process. Here’s how directors should run the most consequential hire they’ll ever make.
Executive Search in Ottawa: The 2026 Hiring Guide for the National Capital Region
Hiring a VP or C-suite leader in Ottawa in 2026? Here’s how the public sector, Kanata tech, and bilingual clearance requirements shape executive search in the National Capital Region.
The Dubai Executive Hiring Guide: Leadership in the Region’s Hub Market
Dubai is the executive hub of the Middle East and a market with its own architecture. The three talent layers, package structures, visa and notice realities, and hiring UAE leadership from abroad.
The Bay Area CTO Search Guide: Hiring Technical Leadership in the World’s Most Courted Market
The deepest CTO pool on earth and the hardest to close. CTO vs VP Engineering, the AI-era premium, equity-first comp, and how companies without frontier-lab budgets win Bay Area searches.
The Chicago COO Search Guide: Hiring Operators in the Crossover Market
No title means less by itself than COO. The four versions of the job, Chicago’s industrial-to-tech crossover profile, Midwest comp bands, and the assessment that separates operators from advisers.
The London Executive Search Guide: Hiring UK Leadership from North America
London is the natural first EMEA hire and the easiest place to break a North American search process. Notice periods, GBP comp architecture, contract culture, and the transatlantic adjustments that work.
