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James Brackin
Brackin & Sayers Associates
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Following are some thoughts from someone whose been voted off the island many times, but continues to bob to the surface:
CompaniesClients, etc.
The basic principles apply in good times and bad
a. Get closer to your client companies (those who’ve paid you a fee in the last 12-24 months)
b. Service the bejabbers […]
Jim Gifford
J. Gifford, Inc.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
In my role as chair of the International Development Committee for NPA, occasionally I hear comments from US members that lead one to think that doing international placements is hard work requiring a different skill set than is used in the US, or that the international placement activity has relatively little […]
Nancy Neumann
Hong Kong Executive Search
Hong Kong
1. Promote and market your organization’s capability in handling international assignments through your NPA partnership network.
2. When you secure the job order, you have to determine how you wish to work this job order:
2.1. On an importer/exporter relationship (when the client is based in home country and looking for staff […]
Jim Gifford
J. Gifford, Inc.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Incorporate it into your business plan
Develop “NPA international” as part of your company and personal business plan and have a strategy and formula to implement it.
Proactive vs. reactive strategy
Instead of waiting for the phone to ring and reacting to those job orders, progress to proactively identifying and marketing to […]
by Maggie McPhee, PHR, Director of Information Services
Courtesy of: www.teagr.com
Every year when we do our absenteeism and turnover survey I never cease to be amazed at how many companies do not track either statistic. There was a recent article in Workspan magazine (February, 2007) that supports the position for tracking absenteeism, ideally […]