Secrets from the Search Firm Files

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Are you sabotaging your career without even knowing it? You probably are, unless you go to work each day with a clear idea of what every senior manager and executive recruiter is looking for. Secrets from the Search Firm Files is filled with page after page of specific, immediately useful tips and practices to ensure that you get noticed and quickly climb the ladder to the top!
This one-of-a-kind book takes you right to the source, digging into the minds and checklists of today's leading recruiters to show you what career activities are critical to future leaders and, just as important, which are a waste of your valuable time and energy. Secrets from the Search Firm Files is the all-in-one source, written in John Rau's immensely entertaining and humorous style, that tells you:
¦ The 9 Priorities That Every Executive Search Team Wants to See
From History of Demonstrated Results to Reputation for Organizational Building, these are the key abilities you should begin working on... Tovább

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Are you sabotaging your career without even knowing it? You probably are, unless you go to work each day with a clear idea of what every senior manager and executive recruiter is looking for. Secrets from the Search Firm Files is filled with page after page of specific, immediately useful tips and practices to ensure that you get noticed and quickly climb the ladder to the top!
This one-of-a-kind book takes you right to the source, digging into the minds and checklists of today's leading recruiters to show you what career activities are critical to future leaders and, just as important, which are a waste of your valuable time and energy. Secrets from the Search Firm Files is the all-in-one source, written in John Rau's immensely entertaining and humorous style, that tells you:
¦ The 9 Priorities That Every Executive Search Team Wants to See
From History of Demonstrated Results to Reputation for Organizational Building, these are the key abilities you should begin working on today!
¦ Sure-fire answers to standard questions—that will make any interviewer sit up and take notice
You know these questions will be asked. Now, after reading this book, you'll always know exactly how to respond to impress every interviewer.
¦ The ONLY 3 rules that truly matter when working at your first post-MBA job Learning to focus only on important issues is critical! Stick to these 3 essential principles and begin to compile
valuable experience that will energize your entire career.
Filled with case histories and examples of executive interviews both good and bad, John Rau and executive recruiters from Ray and Berndtson have put together a book filled with valuable lessons and checklists like "Where should you be by age 30?" and "When to hold still and when to move on." Are you on the hiring end, looking for the next superstar? The special chapter "How to be a Smart Client" focuses on how you can get the most value when using an executive search firm.
Whether your career is just starting out or you simply need inside tips from those who have been there and called the shots, former LaSalle National Bank CEO John Rau and executive recruiters from the search firm of Ray and Berndtson have written Secrets from the Search Firm Files for you! It is the one book you need to take charge of your career, and put yourself on the fast track to landing one of those few but coveted positions at the top.
About the Author
John Rau is the President and GEO of Chicago Title and Trust Company. He is the former Dean of the School of Business ?V Ir.diaiia University. Rau was the CEO of il^aSsiik: National Bank—and at age 35, the youngest CEO of any bank in the top 100. He was also a special consultant to the firm McKinsey & Company, studying high-performing organizations.

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"Rail hns it exactly right I changed industries and it's clear to me that the leadership skills and strategic perspectives he discusses are exactly what people want in CEOs and top executives." —Randall Tobitts, Chairman and CEO Eli Lilly and Company "The 'Real Rules' that determine who gets ahead today are complicated'^ and subtle. And they apply to upwardly-mobile executives of both sexes. John has captured the realities that every wonum aspiring to a leadership role must understand."
—Georgette Mosbacher. CEO and President Mosbacher Enterprises "Every Fortune 500 CEO I know would be proof that Rau has captured the essence of what it takes to attain senior executive status. This is the first book I've ever read that describes how senior management careers are really built"
—Harold A. ("Red") Poling, Chairman of the Board and CEO (retired) Ford Motor Company
John Rau was CEO of a Top 100 bank by the age of 35. In Secrets from the Search Firm Files: What it Really Takes to Get Ahead in the Corporate Jungle, he gives you proven strategies and guidelines to help in your own race to the top. Packed with front-line advice based on his own extraordinarily successful career, plus tips and cautions from executive recruiters in the Global Search Firm of Ray and Berndtson, Rau's book reveals exacdy what business executives and boards of directors are really looking for when they search for their next heavy hitter. It then provides you with specific tactics and ideas, including:
¦ The 10 reasons why a headhunter makes you a candidate
y ¦ 16 job interview mistakes guaranteed to cross you off the list
¦ 8 ways to say you're not interested and have them come back for mor^
Begin today to follow the rules and strategies contained in this lon^-
anticipated book and make a giant leap in your climb to the top.

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