Category Archives: Rankings

The 15 Best Questions Employers Ask in Final-Round CEO Interviews

Drawing on our executive search work, we put this list together to give employers a practical, ranked view they can actually act on. The final round of a CEO interview is where boards move past résumé and rapport to test judgment, character, and fit for the specific challenge. […]

Top 10 Private Equity Executive Search Firms for Portfolio Hiring

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this field guide to give employers the practitioner’s view of what this specific hire demands. Choosing a search firm for private equity portfolio hiring is consequential, and what PE firms actually need is not a […]

The 10 Most Common Reasons Executive Searches Fail (Ranked by Frequency)

This ranked list distills what our team at JRG Partners has learned placing executives, ordered to be useful, not just comprehensive. Executive searches fail more often than they should, and usually for predictable, preventable reasons. This ranking orders the ten most common […]