Lead, Hire, Thrive: Fresh Leadership Insights & 2025 Talent Trends

My wish for you: A prosperous, gratifying and successful year ahead.

Personally, my goal for this year is to help more clients find more talent, and to do my part to support your hiring goals. Whether those goals include hiring leaders, increasing diversity, boosting company culture, finding hard-to-source talent or something else, get in touch.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫?

As a leader, think of your professional New Year’s resolutions as more of a re-envisioning than a to-do list.

Do you want to be a leader whose positive attitude influences and inspires your team? One who has done the learning to offer insights on integrating emerging technologies into business strategy? A leader who prioritizes and models strong communication channels?

All of the above?

The strongest leaders I work with in my role as a President and CEO at KIP Search have a vision for their leadership. January is a great time to reassess that vision for yourself and figure out how you can model it going forward.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 (𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬)

Want to hire more and better people? Get rid of the terrible lighting in your office.

I’m serious!

Bright overhead light is not just unattractive. It can cause eye strain, headaches, migraines and downright irritability.

The best thing you can do for your employees is to offer more daylight in the form of windows, skylights, etc., and to let them control their own lighting with area-specific dimmers and other options.

Now, to find those newly appreciative employees? Hire a recruiter like me to find the right candidates who will truly appreciate your efforts to create a well-lit workplace environment.

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠:

●On Inc.com: Mark Cuban Says the Best Employees Are Smart and Driven. But 1 Other Habit Makes Them Irreplaceable

●On WorklifeNews.com: Here are four workplace norms Gen Z rejected this year

●In the New York Times: The Envy Office: Can Instagrammable Design Lure Young Workers Back?

𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠

3 out of 4 private company C-suite executives say finding local talent has become more challenging in the last 6 months, according to new data from Deloitte.

As a result, they’re changing their acquisition strategies. More than half of the 100 executives Deloitte surveyed say they are increasing skills-based hiring versus experience-focused hiring. They are also reskilling existing employees so there’s less pressure to find people with the perfect skill sets.

They’re also increasing their hybrid work options and implementing new compensation strategies. By opening up hybrid and remote-work options, companies can expand the talent pool they’re drawing from, and by changing compensation strategies, the hope is to provide a stronger draw.

As a recruiter at KIP Search, I can help you create the right hiring strategy to recruit both local and remote talent, and I can also tap into a wider pool of applicants than you might have at your disposal.

I have been a recruiter for many years, and as I head into another year, I feel more inspired than ever to be a great source of ideas and talent for my clients.

Until next month,

Have a great start to your 2025!