Howard Nestler urges global view for local job searches

Howard Nestler

CEO of Executive Options, spoke to a gathering of marketing executives today and caught them off guard by urging a global view even for executives embarking on a local job search. “When an executive launches into a search for a new engagement, most of them are looking locally for about eighty percent don’t want to relocate,” says Howard Nestler. “Their instinct is to conduct a search of local companies for openings. That is why they can go twelve to eighteen months without finding what they want.”

Howard Nestler explained to the assembly that, in today’s corporate world, companies in Seattle can be owned by corporations in Germany or Denmark where the important decisions are made. “A failure to understand this means that a highly qualified executive will be looking at jobs that are far beneath his or her capability,” Howard Nestler explains. “If the decision makers are in Paris or Rome, it does no good to promote locally since that isn’t where major decisions are being made and only lower level positions are on offer.”

Howard Nestler understands that it would seem counter-intuitive to market an executive in London in order to attain a position in Chicago. “It is, however, the way corporations are structured and owned these days. One must confront the world as it is today and not as it used to be.”"The business world will continue to evolve,” says Howard Nestler. “An executive who doesn’t do likewise will be left behind.”

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