by Alfredo Hannenberg | Jul 19, 2019 | 01-Recruiting Strategies
C-Suite positions are not the kindest to VC apologists, are they? Problem: The seven kingdoms were not comfortable with leader-apologists and neither is our real high-tech kingdom. If you want to retain your C-suite throne with your investment community, your firm...
by Alfredo and Minda Hannenberg | Oct 24, 2018 | 02-Recruiting Intake Sessions
Are Critical Hire Candidates as Elusive as E.T.? Unfilled Tech Positions Likely Suggest Poor Candidate Targeting Problem: Your engineering team risks their future success in addressing critical unfilled tech positions. Time lost in ineffective candidate searches...
by Minda and Al Hannenberg | Jun 11, 2017 | 00-business strategies, 01-Recruiting Strategies
Learning from Engineering Victories and Defeats? Winning a series of engineering victories and successful marketing skirmishes against competitors can feel good, but what value are they if they don’t prepare you for decisive battles that can lose the trust of...
by Minda and Al Hannenberg | May 25, 2017 | 00-business strategies, 04-Candidate Screening
Do Your Designs Take Flight & Soar? Synopsis: Achieving first entry in new markets would appear to provide you with a first mover advantage. But if you are not prepared to continuously improve your product, you leave your firm open to more nimble & pragmatic...
by Minda and Al Hannenberg | May 23, 2017 | 01-Recruiting Strategies
Battling with Ill-Defined Competitors Today, companies do battle in emerging marketplaces where competitors can be ill-defined, with unknown strength, lurking in loosely related industries. Rear Admiral Jack Fletcher could relate to these circumstances some 75 years...
by Minda and Al Hannenberg | May 2, 2017 | 00-business strategies
Synopsis: How might your firm resolve dissonant voices as you develop your firm’s products? Can your firm’s resilience have anything to gain by examining the Baroque period of music? A firm’s voice from its leadership, engineering team, service...
by Alfredo Hannenberg | Feb 25, 2017 | 07-Preparing Job Offers
Closing Candidates: Failures in Preparation You’ve selected an excellent candidate and are ready to make an offer. You’re SO CLOSE to being victorious; completing this short hiring ‘putt’ will fill your critical job opening. But do you and your...
by Alfredo Hannenberg | Feb 24, 2017 | 05-Effective Candidate Interviews
Take a Deep Breath–Recruiting Issues Abound Our recruiting life is not without its problems. But left alone, they can keep job openings perpetually unfilled, inflame hiring managers and leave us as recruiters unsatisfied with our performance. Here’s just a...
by Alfredo Hannenberg | Feb 24, 2017 | 03-Search Launch
Search Launch Preparation: Know Your Recruiting Course Layout Playing under sunny skies in Palm Desert at Marriott Shadow Ridge helped me realize that well managed recruiting is very much like playing tournament level golf. You don’t simply tee off by launching...
by Alfredo Hannenberg | Feb 24, 2017 | 13-Hiring Enhancements
Snow Cover Up for Slow Hiring? For those of you living in the northern mid-west and eastern seaboard, sub-zero temperatures, freezing pipes & heavy snow through winter snow through February can disrupt your firm’s normal operations. It’s possible that weather may...
