Category Archives: For Employers

How Do I Evaluate an Executive Candidate With No Industry Experience?

Boardroom Interview

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, here is the direct answer employers actually need, without the jargon. Assess whether the industry knowledge they lack is genuinely essential and hard to acquire, or whether their transferable capabilities and […]

Do Executive Job Postings Even Work? What the Response Data Shows

HR Analytics Meeting

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, here is the direct answer employers actually need, without the jargon. They reach only active candidates, so for most executive roles, where the best candidates are passive, postings alone produce weak pools, but […]

How to Hire a VP of Sales for a Building products company: An Employer’s Field Guide

Industrial Sales Leadership

Drawing on our searches for this role across the sector, this field guide lays out what employers should actually look for, and look out for. Hiring a VP of Sales for a building products company demands someone who understands the sector’s distinctive channels, contractors, […]

How to Hire a VP of Engineering for a Medical device company: An Employer’s Field Guide

Medical Technology Executive

Drawing on our searches for this role across the sector, this field guide lays out what employers should actually look for, and look out for. Hiring a VP of Engineering for a medical device company demands someone who can lead engineering under strict regulatory and quality […]

The 12 Leadership Roles AI Will Change Most by 2030

Future Of Work

Drawing on our executive search work, we put this list together to give employers a practical, ranked view they can actually act on. AI is reshaping how work gets done, and leadership roles will change accordingly, some more than others. This list ranks twelve leadership roles […]

Top 10 Food and Beverage Executive Recruiters in the US

Corporate Hiring Interview

At JRG Partners, we run searches like this across the industry, so this field guide distills what actually separates a strong hire from a costly mismatch. Choosing a recruiter for a food and beverage executive hire is consequential, and what employers need is not a ranked list […]

Healthcare Executive Recruiters in Boston: How Employers Choose the Right Partner

Healthcare Recruitment

Having placed executives in this market, we wrote this guide to give employers a grounded view of the local talent landscape and how to hire into it. Boston is a global center of academic medicine, research hospitals, and health innovation, with a healthcare leadership talent […]

Financial Services Executive Recruiters in New York: How Employers Choose the Right Partner

CEO And Recruiter Meeting

Having placed executives in this market, we wrote this guide to give employers a grounded view of the local talent landscape and how to hire into it. New York is the financial capital of the world, home to the deepest concentration of financial services leadership anywhere, […]

Hiring Executives for a Nonprofit Merging With a For-Profit Partner

Business Merger Meeting

As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, this is one of the questions employers bring me most often, and my answer has been sharpened by seeing what separates the searches that succeed from the ones that don’t. Hiring executives for a nonprofit merging […]

The Succession Readiness Index 2026: How Prepared Are US Mid-Market Boards?

CEO Succession

Drawing on JRG Partners’ work across the executive search market, this report lays out the patterns and dynamics we see shaping leadership hiring. Succession readiness, how prepared a board is for the planned or unplanned departure of key leaders, is a critical governance […]