Do Reference Checks work?

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine that works in the advertising industry and she was asking my opinion about reference checks–do they really work–doesn’t everyone give references that will say good things? She spoke about a reference that was sort of wishy washy about a particular candidate. My feeling is that [...]

A day in our life…

I’ve been thinking about this woman’s experience with Korn Ferry. What I find enormously interesting is the difference between a small boutique recruiting firm (us) and a multi-national corporation that recruits for potentially similar roles.
I believe that Lucy would have done fine with us! Why–because she says what she thinks. And so do we. That’s [...]