Search professionals who identify and present talent at Senior Staff to executive level for product and service providers targeting commercial, consumer, financial services, health care, industrial and international markets
To go beyond the search process, by partnering with clients on prudent talent acquisitions and value adding to candidates’ career choices and expectations.
Integrity & Ethics. Bohan & Bradstreet pledges to uphold Best Practices values and do the right thing in all circumstances
Search Excellence. Bohan & Bradstreet pledges superior service that will be tailored to the needs of our customers and exceed their expectations.
Cooperation & Understanding. Bohan & Bradstreet pledges compassion and respect to all parties as we partner through the search process.
Outside-In View. Bohan & Bradstreet pledges the creativity, innovation and courage to embrace change and transition.
ults Driven.han & Bradstreet pledges to meet our commitments and be measured by the results delivered to our customers
Our Account Executives have a history as hiring authorities prior to joining Bohan & Bradstreet. This knowledge and business acumen brings value to the client and candidate customers that we serve. Since 1987, Bohan & Bradstreet has proactively influenced over 85% of the searches completed by introducing a perspective that enlightens clients on alternative functionality and organization structures to support business goals, innovative strategies on acquiring talent, competitive compensation, insightful interviewing processes, and efficiencies on search timetable and selection processes.
We invest the time and resources to interview, evaluate, and best understand the client companies we serve. We visit our clients and probe the history, organization structure, business processes, short term objectives, long term strategies, culture, leadership talent, investment s for the future, commitment to internal and external customers, markets serves, products/services, business uniqueness, and so on. Only with this foundation, does Bohan & Bradstreet feel comfortable discussing the functionality, responsibilities, and opportunities to contribute of any specific search. We define the bull’s-eye rather than viewing an ambiguous target.
With the same professionalism and wisdom, our Search Consultants and Account Executives evaluate the talent that we recruit. Critical to the placement process is the understanding and appreciation of hard and soft skills, aspirations, motivation, parameters, timing, and a host of other important information and insight. Through a thorough interview and career discussion process, Bohan & Bradstreet interprets and measures the uniqueness of every candidate. We bring reality to the search process and define reachable search goals and solutions.
By investing the time up front to understand the needs of each client and candidate, Bohan & Bradstreet creates an action plan that is tailored to all parties. The results of our search process is that the candidates placed interview with less than two client companies and completed searches average less than four candidates presented. We simplify the search process and add value to all parties.
Talent comes from the Greek word ’talanto’ meaning balance or weight. Having the ability to balance diverse things, juggle multiple items, and accommodate various weights meant that you were talented. Today, talent refers to a special aptitude, faculty or gift within a person.
Companies committed to growth understand that people provide the real advantage. There are direct correlations between talent and success. Defining and measuring organizational performance can be broken down to the team and individual level. Acquiring the appropriate talent to attain team and company performance goals is both an art and a science.
The profiles of talent on this website are senior staff to executive level contributors personally evaluated and chosen by the Bohan & Bradstreet team. Each possesses valuable business skills, a special aptitude and the gift that makes a difference.
If you have interest in learning more about any of the talent profiled, please contact the Bohan & Bradstreet team.
Partnering with the Client
The Account Executive needs to understand the Client’s history, organization, business philosophy, products/services, uniqueness, culture, strategies, competitive landscape, and much more before initiating any search. The better we know the Client, the more efficient B&B can complete the search. We need to develop a marketing campaign that will attract and secure the talent our Client needs.
Defining the Client’s Requirements
B&B partners with the Client to create a complete and detailed description of core responsibilities, definition of opportunities to contribute, reporting structure, resources, Client/candidate expectations, requirements, and compensation. Before starting the search we want to make sure all parties have strategically evaluated the alternatives of role, level, and future of the talent that is being recruited. We define the evaluation and selection process, timetable, and any other information critical to the search process. In many cases we partner and coach hiring authorities on how to evaluate the talent that is presented.
Researching the Marketplace
The B&B team performs a detailed analysis of the Client’s industry, competitors, and marketplace to develop sources for candidates. Candidates are originated from a variety of proactive and passive resources (i.e. direct/indirect recruiting, networking, existing database of candidates, professional associations, recruiting partners).
Identification & Evaluation of Talent
Lots of ingredients in this phase. First, we need to identify and qualify the right candidates to invest the evaluation time. This initial probe centers on career history and progression, appropriateness of experience to the specific search, education, compensation, reasons for seeking new employment, status and parameters of candidate’s search, availability, and aspirations. If that passes muster, the second phase is an in-depth interview of career with the accent on responsibilities and contributions over the last 8-10 years. The third part is the evaluation of soft skills and determination of the appropriateness to the search (i.e. leadership, organization, multi-tasking, prioritizing, problem solving, level of patience, project management, eye for detail and follow through, communications). We go beyond the paper and just matching the search criteria to the resume. We want to assess the cultural fit and the future compatibility.
Client Presentation
Each Client is different and we attempt to accommodate the format that the specific Client wants. Most typical after completing the evaluation process, we provide a current profile of each candidate accompanied by additional insight gained during the interview process. This most commonly is a combination of on target knowledge and experience, appropriate accomplishments, parallels between past history and Client’s opportunity, career motivators, reasons for change, personality traits, compensation history, and availability.
Interview Logistics & Feedback
To expedite and facilitate the search process, B&B coordinates the logistics of the interviews with all parties. We provide directions and pre interview briefings. Everybody needs feedback, both positive and negative. Being the catalyst and coordinator, B&B provides the meaningful commentary and observations from all parties and facilitates the interview process to take advantage of interest, clarify on perceptions, identify the omissions or concerns, reiterate on timing issues, and other potential hurdles.
References & Background Checks
Some companies like to do their own references, however, the vast majority of our Clients prefer that we do all or most of them. Our references are customized to the needs of the Client that we serve and are unique for each candidate. We contact superiors, peers, subordinates and external customers. We provide a paraphrased synopsis of our findings and present that with all the appropriate contact information in case the Client would like to ask additional questions. B&B uses a 3rd party to provide background checks for any client that would like this service to be performed. There is an additional charge for this service.
final Negotiations
If you manage expectations of all parties, then results of your actions are successful negotiations and acceptance. Clients are comparing various candidates for their needs and attempting to establish fair value for the talent selected. Candidates are comparing current employment with external alternatives and attempting to establish acceptable value. Every Client and candidate is unique. B&B provides insight of impressions and expectations, openly discusses the evaluation, brings clarity on any open issues, and partners with both parties on final negotiations and start date.
After the Acceptance
As Yogi Berra has often said, “It ain't over 'til it's over.” B&B stays in communication with all parties before the new employee starts, after new employment begins, and throughout the candidate's career. We are here to add value and insight as part of a long-term relationship. Part of our success is due to the interest we have in the development of candidates’ careers within the client companies we serve. We believe in open and frequent communications
AN & BRADSTREET, INC.
741 Boston Post Road, Suite 101
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Guilford, CT 06437
Phone: (203) 453-5535
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