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How the Executive Talent Certificate Can Make You Stand Out
Professional development courses can enhance your approach to executive recruitment and lead to new opportunities
Despite having years of experience in the industry, senior consultants working in executive search or corporate recruiters focused on executive talent acquisition can yield great results from professional development programs. Additional enrichment can help you stand out amongst the rest when seeking partner- and managing partner-level positions or when pivoting into a new industry.
Not only will such programs help you add more value and provide superior service, but they will allow you to deepen your relationships, leading to more opportunities and new business.
As a seasoned executive search or leadership consultant, you can discover how to:
- Find the time to nurture and sustain relationships with new and existing clients.
- Help build your firm's credibility and brand.
- Turn candidates into clients and foster client relationships for future business.
- Drive meetings and convert introductions into viable business.
- Ask the power questions and learn about the latest trends.
As a seasoned in-house talent specialist, you can discover how to:
- Leverage peer expertise to better build internal and external relationships.
- Help build your organization's brand and credibility.
- Ask the power questions.
- Secure a seat at the table and drive meetings.
- Understand the current market and trends to secure top talent.
A professional development certificate in your field can demonstrate you have the tools and knowledge to serve as a long-term trusted advisor, whether it is within your organization or for an external company. Advanced development programs can also provide strategies and frameworks that can be directly applied in your everyday practices, making you feel more confident in your abilities to strategically discover and place the top candidates for your company or clients.
Here are four ways the executive talent certificate can make you stand out:
1. Build Upon Your Industry Knowledge & Talent Strategies
Seasoned in-house recruiters and executive search or leadership consultants’ deep level of expertise enables them to deliver solutions to the most pressing talent challenges today's C-suite faces. A professional development program can provide a greater understanding of the executive talent acquisition profession and the latest trends impacting the industry. Understanding how trends—such as globalization, economic changes, demographic trends, technology, social contract and more—impact the talent market will help you determine which executive candidate skills will be most important to organizations today and tomorrow.
Such a course can also provide new models of work and skills to maintain adaptability and agility amidst growing disruption in the industry. Training can teach you more about human-machine collaboration and the availability of new technologies and data, how leading firms manage their leadership pipeline and how talent management and development can affect client options.
2. Improve the way you Utilize Executive Assessments
Advancements in assessment methods are made nearly every year. Most recently, artificial intelligence (AI) assessments have hit the market, offering an advanced way to vet and assess potential executive candidates. Due to growing popularity, it’s important you understand the top assessment options, how to find the right one for you and how to fairly interpret results. A focused course can teach you about the benefits and challenges of using AI in the hiring process, how to use it to inform talent decisions and how leading organizations are utilizing such assessments. AI-based assessments can be used to create a more engaging candidate experience and inform future staffing decisions and succession planning.
3. Discover Executive Compensation Trends
As a seasoned executive search or leadership consultant, you want to negotiate the best possible compensation and benefits package between your client and the candidate. As an in-house talent acquisition representative at the senior level, you want to do the same between your company and the candidate. A program focused on trends in executive talent will help you understand the latest trends and topics influencing executive compensation. Contrast pay levels across the globe, determine popular long-term incentives and gain a deeper understanding of how ESG measures are now being used as part of incentive plans.
4. Advance Your Knowledge of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Organizations across the globe have taken necessary measures to encourage and improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). To hire an effective leader who can drive DEI change, you must understand the makings of successful DEI practices and initiatives. A course in executive talent can teach you about the challenges in accelerating change, diversity practices, sustaining a diverse candidate pipeline, the latest DEI trends, the importance of board and executive leadership support in the matter and more to help you prepare for the task of placing the right leader.
How to Obtain the Executive Talent Certificate
The Association of Executive and Leadership Consultants (AESC) in collaboration with Cornell University’s ILR School, developed a four-month virtual education program, Advanced Certificate in Executive Talent.
A combination of academic and industry insights, the program features expert Cornell faculty alongside industry professionals. Throughout the four months, students will virtually attend several courses including a discussion on the state of the profession with AESC President and CEO Karen Greenbaum, an executive assessment panel discussion, an expert-led session on emerging executive compensation topics around the world and much more.
It’s the perfect professional development course for seasoned executive search consultants, leadership consultants, in-house talent acquisition specialists and individuals seeking to bridge industry knowledge and frameworks when consulting with C-suite executives.
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