Propeo Executive Search

Propeo is an executive search firm, and as such, our activities are focused on assisting our clients fill key positions.  

However, we find that during the course of our conversations with executive candidates, we are asked for advice on career management.  While providing career counsel is not our core business, we do have some views on the matter, and this section of our site is aimed at delivering some basic signposts.  

We live today in what is probably the best ever era in human history.  The rate of change in our world in the last two decades has been breathtaking and exhilarating, and in our view, its greatest gift has been the opening up of more opportunities for more people than could have been dreamt of just one generation ago.  The world has never in its history ever offered more possibilities for people to advance themselves and make their dreams a reality.  However, this explosion of opportunity has brought with it greater competition, and to be successful you must raise your game to the new standards. 

You have seen enough CVs and conducted enough interviews to be able to evaluate senior candidates.  Therefore you know what you want to see in others.  But what about you?  How do you stack up against your own criteria?  We come across many capable executives who are short-changing themselves with regard to their own development, and this always catches up with them - mostly when they want to move jobs.  As Stephen Covey might say, they are failing to "sharpen the saw".  

We believe there are two key questions that you must address as a starting point in progressing your career.  Our advice is that you engage in a process of challenging yourself, testing your assumptions, and answering two important questions: 

1. What's really going on in the the world of 21st century business?
   

2. What can you offer that is of value in that world?

A lot is changing out there!  You had better know what it is, and how you are going to turn it to your advantage, or you risk becoming a victim of it! 

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