The Execu|Search Group is pleased to announce the establishment of Execu|Search Legal. Under the direction of Managing Directors Todd Merkin, Esq. and Andrew Mittelmann, this division will be providing recruitment services for attorneys and clients on a national and international basis.
Todd and Andrew will be spearheading Execu|Search Legal, headquartered in The Execu|Search Group’s New York City office. The Division will primarily focus on the placement of partners, associates and in-house counsel, at law firms, financial services firms, and other major companies.
“We are excited to be able to offer our recruitment services and expertise to law firms and corporations both nationally and internationally,” said Edward Fleischman, CEO of The Execu|Search Group. “We are very pleased to have Todd and Andrew on board to expand our services and develop Execu|Search Legal. We believe that their strong backgrounds and recruiting skills will prove valuable to their clients and to our firm as a whole.”
The Execu|Search Group has been a leading recruitment, temporary/consulting and retained search firm in the City of New York and the Tri-State Area since 1985. “We are looking forward to leveraging the brand and reputation of The Execu|Search Group to expand our reach and also to continue to provide our clients with the highest quality recruitment services available,” said Todd Merkin.
With the addition of Execu|Search Legal, The Execu|Search Group enhances its leadership position in recruitment services. “We will build on the firm’s excellent record of serving clients and candidates,”said Andrew Mittelman. “The Execu|Search Group will be an engine for competition and growth for our clients at home and abroad.”
For more information about Execu|Search Legal, please contact Todd or Andrew: Contact Todd:tmerkin@execu-search.com 212.204.5146 Contact Andrew:atm@execu-search.com 212.204.5148
The Execu|Search Group has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care staffing services from The Joint Commission.The Execu|Search Group underwent an on-site review of its compliance with national standards addressing how staffing firms determine the qualifications and competency of their staff, how they place their staff, and how they monitor staff’s performance. Upon completing the Joint Commission’s evaluation process, The Execu|Search Group was awarded certification for Health Care Staffing Services.“Health care organizations that contract with The Execu|Search Group can look to this certification as an assurance that The Execu|Search Group demonstrates a commitment to providing and continuously improving quality services,” says Michele Sacco, M.S., executive director, Health Care Staffing Services Certification, Joint Commission.Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. Governed by a board that includes physicians, nurses, and consumers, The Joint Commission sets the standards by which health care quality is measured in America and around the world.“Certification recognizes The Execu|Search Group’s dedication to providing health care professionals that are qualified to provide safe, high-quality care to patients,” says Kyle Mattice, Managing Director of the Temporary Health Services division. “We’re proud to receive the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™.”The Execu|Search Group’s Health Services is one of the largest and most established health services placement providers in the City of New York and the Tri-State area. Offering Allied Healthcare, Healthcare, Physician Recruitment and Retained Healthcare Search, Execu|Search Health Services is managed by seasoned recruiters who offer a long-standing tradition of top quality service. Headquartered in New York City with branch offices in Purchase, NY and Bridgewater, NJ, The Execu|Search Group offers recruitment, temporary staffing, and retained search services across several practice areas including: Accounting/Finance; Architecture & Engineering; Financial Services including Front Office; Graphics; Health Services: Allied Health, Healthcare, Physicians; Human Resources; Information Technology, and Office Support.For more information regarding The Execu|Search Group’s Health Services please contact Kyle Mattice at (212) 204-5102, or via e-mail at kylem@execu-search.com
Today, MSNBC covered a story on slackers using Swine Flu as an excuse to get out of work. The poll that they linked to, “Would you consider faking swine flu symptoms to get out of something?” has yielded the following results so far:
Where do you stand? Would you ever use Swine Flu as an excuse to get out of work?
A San Francisco woman, Julie Michelle, recently turned her hobby into a career. Only a few months ago, Julie began taking photographs around San Francisco and posting them on her blog. After meeting and photographing various San Francisco residents, Julie would include stories explaining what
San Francisco meant to each of her subjects. Julie’s San Francisco story and photograph posts received so much positive feedback, that she created a new blog, “i live here: SF.”
Just as her new blog began to gain popularity, Julie was laid off from her full time job as an Interior Designer. Julie started looking for a job using traditional methods, but soon devoted her time to her new blog, “At first, the two were unrelated,” Julie told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I had this
hobby that I enjoyed and devoted some time to, then I was unemployed and figuring out what to do next. Finally, I thought I needed to fill my time somehow. You can’t just sit at home all day and send out resumes; that gets depressing.”
Today, The Wall Street Journal recognized that more and more companies are using Twitter to advertise their jobs in an article titled, “A New Job Just a Tweet Away.” The Execu|Search Group is one of the companies using Twitter in this capacity. We invite you to follow our Twitter accounts to stay updated on all of our latest roles:
The New York Times recently covered a story on a “new species” of social clubs that have been popping up throughout the country. In light of high unemployment rates, job seekers everywhere have been forming clubs to cope, vent, and attempt to network their way back into the work force.
Job clubs, or what might be more appropriately deemed “jobless” clubs, are not an entirely new phenomenon, but their popularity has grown tremendously in 2009. Janice Juvrad, an unemployed woman in New Jersey who keeps a running list of regional job clubs, reported seeing staggering job-club growth between December and June of this year, “In December my document was 15 pages long, and in June it was 39 pages long.“ Her list focuses mostly on New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester County, with only bare-bones information about New York City and Long Island. The complete list of job clubs in the region is presumably far larger.
Job clubs are run in a variety of ways, from breakfast meet-ups to venting sessions, to church-run networking groups. One group who began holding breakfast meetings at a local diner, was asked to take their club elsewhere- the food bill (based on their unemployed-budgets) wasn’t coming up high enough for the diner.
While some would consider job clubs an excuse for a pity party, others feel that expanding their network can’t hurt.
The Execu|Search Group’s take: If you are able to make more real-life connections and grow your network with a positive group of people, there is nothing wrong with joining a job club.
Kevin Smiley of Lancaster, PA recently found himself an internship after spending a few days handing out resumes on the streets of Philadelphia. The 2008 Temple graduate decided to hand out resumes outside of the Radian building as a last ditch effort to find employment and stay in Philadelphia. An aspiring sports writer, Smiley had been unemployed since graduation, living in Philadelphia with the help of his parents. Kevin suffers from spina bifida- if he had not found employment quickly, he would have had to return to Lancaster, which is not as handicap-accessible as Philadelphia.
Luckily for Smiley, one passerby who picked up Smiley’s resume handed it off to the right person. An editor at Comcast was seeking interns and brought Smiley in for an interview- which landed him a job. When asked about his new position as an editorial assistant on the Comcast.net home page, Smiley told the Philadelphia Inquirer, “It’s a good start for me. It’s a way to get my foot in the door.”
Yet another story of sidewalk success, Smiley stood out to people in the media industry because, as one CBS employee explained, “kids who aren’t scared to push a little harder make it in media today.” But before you run to the streets with your posterboard and resumes, think twice about how you will be perceived by the people in your industry or at your desired company.
Yes, you read correctly. In a recent Washington Post article, Blue Chip, White Cotton; What Men’s Underwear Says about the Economy, one research firm claims it has the ability to forecast the state of the economy based on the sale of men’s underwear. The theory is that men prolong purchasing underwear when the economy is bad- therefore causing a dip in sales (sales of mens underwear are usually stable because it is a needed product). Once you start seeing an increase in sales again, the “Men’s Underwear Index” can be considered a positive economic indicator.
Do you think this is possible? What other sales index could be representative of the overall economy?
The Execu|Search Group has an extensive and proven track record of success in the recruitment, temporary/consulting and retained search industry. What sets us apart is not only this longstanding success, but also the depth and breadth of our expertise and service.
We are pleased to announce the expansion of our Information Technology Division, providing a full compliment of IT staffing solutions in New York and New Jersey. Our expanded team of experienced technology recruiters and our quality professional network will provide your organization with access to specialized technology talent.
We focus in recruiting IT professionals in the following roles on a full-time, consulting or temporary-to-full time basis, across all industries:
We have a robust network of available and qualified candidates and are ready to address your IT staffing goals. Please feel free to contact Joe Eiseman at jeiseman@execu-search.com with any questions you may have.
In today’s tight job market, job seekers are going above and beyond to set themselves apart from the competition. From walking the streets to purchasing advertising space, creative job search tactics are becoming more popular- but are they worthwhile or just over the top?
On the Street: Sean Christman and his friend Andrew O’Malley were growing impatient with submitting hundreds of resumes and applications and receiving little to no response. So, the graduates of LaSalle University and Rutgers, took their job search to the streets- wearing poster boards and handing out resumes at a busy Philadelphia intersection during rush hour. Sean and Andrew are now both gainfully employed, but they can’t contribute their new roles to their outlandish job search tactics. Although their headlining job search helped differentiate them from the pack, both men say they found their roles through traditional networking.
More recently, Wilson Lauture of Stanford, Connecticut has been standing on the street with his two sons, wearing red, white and blue posters that highlight his skills and background. After trying traditional job search methods such as online applications and networking, Lauture hopes that his latest effort will prove more fruitful. He lost his accounting job in April and is now faced with mounting debts and loan payments. With no job offers on the table, Lauture told NBC Connecticut, “We want to be exposed as much as we can so that more people can see us,” Lauture said. “We are not searching for fame. We are not begging for provisions. I just need a job.”
On the Web: Back in July, The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote an article about the types of websites job seekers were creating in order to catch the eyes of head hunters and HR professionals. While some job seekers purchased Facebook or online advertisements to drive traffic to their online resumes, other job seekers went so far as to target specific companies- i.e. “TwitterShouldHireMe.com”. With nearly 45% of hiring managers utilizing social networks and the internet to research and perform background checks on candidates, it is important to build an online presence and let your network know you are looking for positions. But in regards to job seeker advertisements online and company-specific “Hire Me” sites, some job seekers found a job, but others did not. The creator of “TwitterShouldHireMe.com” did not land a job with Twitter, but built a large network online and was able to find work through those contacts.
On a …Billboard: One of the most drastic examples of “creative” job search tactics was the story of Pasha Stocking of East Hampton, CT. After being laid off in June 2008, Stocking took out an ad on a billboard alongside Interstate 95 in Bridgeport. The billboard read: “Hire me! Unemployed and seeking employment,” with a website listing and a photo of Stocking in pearls and a button-down shirt. Stocking says she was so frustrated by her search that she took $2,500 out of savings to rent the billboard- but didn’t receive and good leads from the 4 week advertisement.
The Execu|Search Group’s Take:
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