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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Executive Search
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Executive Search

April 16, 2025 | The 10 Minute Talent Rant

Executive search isn’t some mysterious dark art. You’re not paying for secret handshakes and a magic Rolodex.

But that’s exactly what legacy firms want you to think.

They sell prestige. They sell access. They sell fear. And some companies buy it—because no one wants to screw up a high-profile hire.

Here’s the truth: access is the easy part. Executives respond more than anyone. The real challenge? Fit. Immersion. Results after the hire. And most firms skip that part entirely.

Jeff Smith and James Hornick rip the curtain off the smoke-and-mirrors world of exec search—and explain why most firms are failing their clients (badly) in The 10 Minute Talent Rant, Episode 109, “What Everyone Gets Wrong About Executive Search.”

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Hirewell’s Jeff Smith and James Hornick dunk on problems in the recruiting and hiring space. Maybe even a solution or two. If they have time.

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Beyond the Offer is Hosted by Bill Gates and Rosanna Snediker, who attack the latest trends and challenges in talent acquisition and human resources. They chat with top executives and HR Leaders to discuss their recruiting and retention problems, how they are solving them, and what changes they anticipate in the future of HR and Talent acquisition. Their topics include talent acquisition, agency/staffing recruiting, RPO solutions, recruiting technology, HRIS, and ATS Technology, and recruiting landscape over the next decade or so. Tune in to learn more!

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Our weekly show where our hosts Ryan Brown and Emily Goor discuss the company’s updates. They cover a few of the newest openings we’re working on currently across all our divisions. They also highlight “Recruiter of the Week” where we bring on one of our recruiters and they participate in a rapid-fire questions game, in hopes of allowing our audience to get to know the team better.

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