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By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP If Everyone Has LinkedIn, Why Do Companies Still Pay Search Fees? LinkedIn has made executives easier to find, and AI is making them easier still. Almost anyone can now identify the CFO of a competitor, map the leadership team of a bank in Singapore, find technology executives in New York or build a list of potential CEOs in London. Information that once required considerable research is increasingly available to anyone with the right tools and enough...

By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP When hiring goes wrong, Talent Acquisition is often where the problem becomes visible. That doesn't necessarily mean it is where the problem started. I have spent nearly three decades working across recruitment and Talent Acquisition, including executive search, agency recruitment, RPO and senior internal TA leadership roles across different countries, industries and organisations. I have seen recruitment functions that were excellent, some that were poor,...

By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP HR can facilitate it. Finance can model it. Talent Acquisition can provide market intelligence. But if the business owns the strategy, it must also own the workforce required to deliver it. Ask who owns workforce planning inside a large organisation and you are likely to receive several different answers. HR will almost certainly be mentioned, as will Finance and business operations. Depending on the organisation, the COO, Strategy, Talent Acquisition or...