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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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The Uphill Climb: Why Career Transitions Feel Like Scaling Mount Everest (And How to Do It Anyway).

Rich Gee Group

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett Ah, the career transition! A career transition isn't just about shifting from Job A to Job B. That's precisely what makes the very idea of a career change daunting.

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Things to Consider When Changing Career

Joseph Lalonde

Nowadays, people change their careers frequently for personal and professional growth and to earn more money, but the last thing you want to do is sacrifice a good situation for more money or less flexibility. Company Culture . The company culture is the values, attitudes, and behaviors that you experience in your office.

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Peer Influence On Students’ Career Choices

The Horizons Tracker

When contemplating career choices, students commonly seek counsel from acquaintances, family members, and colleagues engaged in their desired professions. Research from Rensselaer explores how peers can influence the choices students make in terms of their careers.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Basic search: Easily search using keywords, job title, location, industry, and more. Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Adding a new CxO might create temporary instability in a firm that has relied on generations of insiders or in the case of a more recent startup, a mercurial leader to harness the company.

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Is Transportation a Good Career Path?

Talent Anarchy 1

In a world that’s constantly on the move, the transportation industry plays a pivotal role in keeping things running smoothly. But is a career in transportation a good choice? In this article, we’ll delve into the various aspects of the transportation industry to help you determine is transportation a good career path.