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Top retained executive search in Denver, CO

Professional executive search in Denver, Colorado? Don’t sweat it if you truly cannot hire any new employees now. However, you can, and should, still actively recruit and remain in contact with your candidates. Maintaining an open line of communication and being transparent about your current hiring operations will keep your company relevant and top of mind with candidates. Keeping them engaged, even if it’s as simple as checking in with them, increases the likelihood that they will want to come work for your company once you resume hiring.

Customer Management. Every employee needs to be in the customer management business now. The best leaders ensure their teams regularly connect with customers, listen to their feedback, and exercise flexibility. Customers will appreciate when companies are nimble enough to understand their changing needs and offer new ways to help. The work leaders do now to retain and strengthen customer relationships will pay dividends in the future.

Private Equity firms entrust Spectrum with hiring their senior most important leaders who will shape and determine the future success of their portfolio companies. We have successfully guided our Clients through hundreds of these processes. Selecting the right candidate accelerates the timetable for achieving the goals of your investment thesis, enhances valuations, and ultimately leads to a very successful exit. Many of these firms utilize us throughout their entire portfolio due to our process, persistence, and thoroughness. As a trusted partner, Spectrum has completed every search we’ve been hired to perform – a track record we are very proud of. If we have to engage with several hundred candidates to find your next leader, we will. Discover more details at retained executive search Denver.

Every existing and prospective Spectrum Client is unique, with different needs, challenges, priorities, and corporate cultures. Spectrum appreciates this and will invest considerable time getting to know your business intimately. Should we work together, our goal is to be able to represent your brand as effectively as you do. This discovery process also enables us to develop a compelling value proposition to take to the marketplace, as 95% of the candidates we reach out to are gainfully employed and are not actively seeking new opportunities. The competition for top notch talent today is as fierce as its ever been so it is vital that we make the strongest initial impression possible.

Assess how each candidate’s work arrangement should be structured. Could it be a contract role to allow more flexibility than is possible with a fulltime hire? Consider structuring hires to minimize unemployment and outplacement costs in the present climate of uncertainty. Implement low-cost, minimal-effort, yet high-impact employee retention and mental health practices. Everyone knows we are in an unprecedented time and companies are making some things up as they go along. But keeping new and current employees involved and part of the plan will foster a climate of “we’re all in this together,” where the company’s next great idea can come from any employee that wants to contribute. Scared, resentful employees don’t often want to offer ideas.

Heather joined Spectrum in 2009. She has worked in executive search for 20 years and has partnered with Spectrum’s CEO, Kevin Hahn, for much of that time. Heather has played a pivotal role in developing Spectrum’s private equity-centric candidate identification and acquisition capabilities, as well as both supporting and leading executive C-level and functional leadership searches. She has worked extensively in each of the 6 primary verticals that Spectrum supports as well as others, including direct marketing, education (for profit and on-line providers), and hospitality sectors. Heather has successfully completed hundreds of searches over the course of her career. Her depth and versatility have enabled Spectrum to execute on its strategy to be a single source provider to its PE clients. Find additional information on here.