Author’s Blog
In the Author’s Blog Bob Olin shares his thoughs about Executive Search, Career Change Management,
Job Search, Recruiting Trends and a wide array of other Recruiting related topics.
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Could I become a company board director?
In senior management positions, you are often requested to have previous experience of a similar level/type of positions, so also at the board level. Still, everyone comes to a board position in their turn for the first time, and then there will certainly be plenty of...
Leadership vs leadership styles
No one's leadership philosophy is set in stone. For me, leadership, or the leadership style, always starts with the person himself. A person's values, personality, goals, work experience, perspective, etc., lay the foundation for their personal leadership philosophy....
The makings of a good leader
Perhaps some have been given a better genetic capacity to develop into good leaders, but this is no guarantee that they will become good leaders or will ever want to become "leaders" of anything. As a child, we want to become police officers, astronauts, supermen, bus...
Training, Knowledge and Information sharing
One might easily think this is only an employer issue, but it is not. It is a two-way street. On the practical level, this is always about a person-to-person interaction where both must be active and make an effort. If things are done rightly, this is a win-win...
Why do people land the wrong job? Why do companies hire the wrong person?
Mostly things go well in a recruiting process, but sometimes the recruiting fails. Anyone can make a mistake. Sometimes both parties simultaneously make mistakes in the process. When so, the mistakes can “compound”, increasing the likelihood of a bad outcome in the...
VENI, VIDI, VICI – I came, I saw, I conquered – or did I?
We typically change work employment 4–8 times in a lifetime. There are exceptions, but most fit within these limits. If we roughly calculate that working life lasts about 40 years, then the average employment relationship is 5–10 years with these figures. "I came, I...





