There’s no such thing as the perfect candidate!
And yet hardly any word comes up as often for me as this one: perfect. In conversations with executives, when filling top positions, in strategic decisions. And of course in private life, too.
We look for the perfect hire, the perfect solution, the perfect moment. Yet perfection is only a snapshot. People develop, markets turn and organisations are restructured. What looked ideal to us yesterday can be wrong again tomorrow.
Perfection is like a mirage. The closer you get, the further it moves away.
I know what I’m talking about. More than 20 years ago, I founded TALENTspy in a basement without daylight. Little about it was perfect. It still fit, because as an executive and as a candidate I had seen often enough how executive search should not work.
What I have been looking for ever since is fit, and for me, fit always depends on the situation.
You see this most clearly where everything suddenly shifts: in a transformation, in a growth phase, in the value creation plan after the deal.
That is where the most flawless CV is not automatically the right one. What is needed is someone who can carry exactly this phase.
At TALENTspy, we have specialised in these “Special Situations”.
And because a placement does not end with the signing of the contract, we now go the last mile as well: with “Leadership Assessment” and support during the first 100 days as sparring with an operator. With this extended offering, we support our clients in their business development before and after the placement.
Find out more on our website.
