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What Top Recruiters Notice in the First 30 Seconds of Your Profile
If you’ve ever wondered why your profile isn’t getting traction, despite years of leadership experience, you’re not alone. In the executive search world, first impressions carry more weight than most professionals realize. At Barbachano International, we’ve seen this...
Global Talent, Local Blind Spots
A few months ago, a U.S.-based client came to us needing a senior leader to oversee operations across Mexico and South America. On paper, they were looking for “global talent.” But as we reviewed their shortlist, every candidate was U.S.-born, U.S.-educated, and had...
Retention Starts at the Top: What the Best Leaders Get Right
Every organization wants to improve retention. But in too many boardrooms, it’s still viewed as an HR function instead of what it is: a leadership outcome. Consider this: a recent McKinsey report found that the top reasons employees leave jobs are tied to how they’re...
Retained vs. Contingency Search: What Executives Should Know
“Do we need someone now, or do we need the right person?” Most leaders don’t say that part out loud, but it drives nearly every hiring decision for key roles. Behind the scenes, HR is weighing costs. Hiring managers are thinking about time. And somewhere along the...
Cross-Border Labor Trends Are Redefining Manufacturing Talent Strategy
Across the U.S. and Mexico, manufacturing is changing fast. Companies aren’t just dealing with one challenge, they’re facing a mix of labor shortages, shifting demographics, nearshoring pressures, and growing unpredictability around trade policy. It’s making leaders...
How to Spot True Executive Readiness (Before the Interview)
When it comes to hiring senior leaders, most organizations spend a lot of time reviewing resumes. That’s understandable. Experience matters. Titles matter. But executive readiness, the ability to step into a critical leadership role and actually succeed, is rarely...
Why Your Next Executive Needs Cross-Cultural Agility
Hiring a great executive today takes more than just looking at their track record or where they went to school. With teams that span countries and cultures, what matters just as much, if not more, is how well someone can lead across differences. Cross-cultural agility...
What Top Performers Really Want: Insights to Help You Win Executive Talent
In today’s leadership market, where opportunity and mobility are high, companies aren’t just competing for talent. They’re competing for alignment. Executives are being more selective about where they go, not just based on compensation or title, but on whether a role...
What Gets Missed When Tech Moves Faster Than Leadership
There’s a widening gap in many organizations, and it’s not about funding, talent, or even product strategy. It’s leadership. Specifically, leadership that hasn’t kept pace with the speed and scale of technology. While innovation moves quickly, decision-making at the...
Leadership Lessons from Tom Brady: Adapting, Recruiting, and Playing the Part
Whether you admire him or not, Tom Brady’s legacy extends far beyond football, marked by seven Super Bowl victories and numerous NFL records. Despite no longer playing the sport, Brady continues to captivate people outside of football who seek insights into leadership...
From Boss to Coach: Boosting Engagement Through Better Leadership
Remember when your parents would tell you to do something, and if you asked them why, their answer would simply be, “Because I said so”? For years, business organizations have run in a similar way. Management calls the shots, and employees do what their managers say...
Why Successful Entrepreneurs Say No
Why The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Say No I’ve been a career coach for nearly 25 years and run my business for 20 years now. My goal remains the same: help my clients create huge shifts in their personal and professional lives. I’ve since learned that the...
Five Keys to High-Impact Talent Management
All managers, no matter what their titles are, are in essence human resource managers. Okay, “HR Manager” might not be their job title or description in the strictest sense of the words, but all management is HR management at its core, in that a company’s human...
Now is the Time to Romance Your Employees Again
No doubt about it—the last couple of years have been weird for all of us. Among corporate America’s “weird” moments we can count a global pandemic, a mass enterprise shutdown, a wave of remote work that was more like a tsunami, the Great Resignation, and near...
A Post-Pandemic Resignation Boom has Arrived: What to Do?
A Post-Pandemic Resignation Boom Has Arrived: What to Do? As the market heats up and talent demand skyrockets, many people feel empowered — and in some cases, they feel empowered to quit their jobs. Associate professor of management Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M...
Talent Acquisition Strategies in Post-Pandemic Times
New Talent Acquisition Strategies to Hire Top Talent for the Post-Pandemic Times The pandemic left very few industries unphased. Its impact is still powerful and likely to be felt in the months and possibly years to come for the workforce. When the lockdowns...
Barbachano International Earns Top 30 Ranking
Barbachano International Earns Top 30 Ranking in Prestigious Forbes’ list for Recruiting Excellence Forbes selected Barbachano International as America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms 2021 for 5th year in a row, ranking #27 in America and #3 on the West Coast...
How to Apply for a Position and Get the Job after retirement
Working After Retirement: How to Apply for a Position and Get the Job A famous American medical researcher, Jonas Salk, said, “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” As somebody who continued his life’s work until almost the time of his death,...
Attracting “Older” Professionals Will Be Key. Here’s Why.
Attracting “Older” Professionals to Your Company Will Be Key This Year. Here’s Why. In a culture where youth is so esteemed for its energy, creativity, and tech know-how, it’s important to keep sight of the value that older, more experienced professionals bring to the...
Octavio Lepe Appointed to the Board at Global Women Fresh
Octavio Lepe of Barbachano International Appointed to the Board at Global Women Fresh SAN DIEGO, CA, February 1, 2020 – Octavio Lepe-Camarena of Barbachano International, the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm in the Americas, has been appointed to...
Tips to Get Selected by the Resume-Reading Robots
Use the Following Tips and Get Selected by the Resume-Reading Robots Regardless of the industry in which they operate, 99% of Fortune 500 companies and a growing number (50% and counting) of large and mid-sized businesses have one thing in common: they rely on ATS...
Beyond Times of Crisis: Defining Your Hiring Strategy
Beyond Times of Crisis: Defining Your Hiring Strategy Hiring during times of crisis may seem like an oxymoron. During a crisis, most people hunker down and try to maintain the status quo. C-suite executives become ultra-conservative, freezing budgets and hiring alike....
What to Look for in a Turnaround Leader
What to Look for in a Turnaround Leader In today's rapidly changing and competitive business landscape, companies constantly face challenges that can impact their profitability and long-term sustainability. Whether it's increased competition, changing market...
Traditional vs. Emerging Leadership
Traditional vs. Emerging Leadership: Sustainability in the Ever-Changing World With the rapid and ever-evolving rate at which business is shifting, leaders must adapt their leadership styles to ensure they aren’t left behind. Traditional leadership strategies are...
Working from Home in Mexico
Working From Home in Mexico: Is It Really The New Normal? The Coronavirus has undoubtedly reshaped the way we work around the globe, in some cases finally driving forth or consolidating the long-awaited paradigm shift of doing so remotely. Mexico is portraying itself...
Improve Retention and Executive Talent
Improve Retention and Executive Talent Quality with this Advanced Hiring Process According to Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School, “Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. And they’ve never done a worse job of it.” You...
5 Expert Recommendations to Get on a Headhunters’ Radar
5 Expert Recommendations to Get on a Headhunters’ Radar Headhunters, recruiters, and human resource managers can help you land a job that suits your career goals and, ideally, your salary expectations. Whether or not you are satisfied with your current position, it's...
COVID and the Workplace: Are You Indispensable?
COVID and the Workplace: Are You Indispensable? This time of COVID-19 pandemic is also, for many, a time of unemployment and economic turmoil. You may likely know someone who's been placed on leave or worse--let go. If you have a job, you're probably very keen to...
Unconscious Bias When Hiring
Here's What You Should Do To Remove (Un)conscious Bias When Hiring Companies aren't just clamoring to prioritize diversity and inclusivity when building their workforce because it's the right thing to do. Studies have shown, as reported by outlets like Forbes, that...
Reskill and Upskill Workforce For the Post-Covid Era
How Leaders Can Reskill and Upskill Workforce For The Post-COVID Era As employees return to the “new normal”, employers face tough choices regarding shortcomings in skills and knowledge that were laid bare by the forced telecommuting following the pandemic shutdown. A...
Creating Your Blueprint for Virtual Onboarding
Creating Your Blueprint for Virtual Onboarding It has become increasingly clear to companies that the COVID-19 pandemic isn't going to interrupt business as usual for merely a few months. As cases once again increase in many areas of the country, the necessity to take...
What Top Recruiters Notice in the First 30 Seconds of Your Profile
If you’ve ever wondered why your profile isn’t getting traction, despite years of leadership experience, you’re not alone. In the executive search world, first impressions carry more weight than most professionals realize. At Barbachano International, we’ve seen this...
Global Talent, Local Blind Spots
A few months ago, a U.S.-based client came to us needing a senior leader to oversee operations across Mexico and South America. On paper, they were looking for “global talent.” But as we reviewed their shortlist, every candidate was U.S.-born, U.S.-educated, and had...
Retention Starts at the Top: What the Best Leaders Get Right
Every organization wants to improve retention. But in too many boardrooms, it’s still viewed as an HR function instead of what it is: a leadership outcome. Consider this: a recent McKinsey report found that the top reasons employees leave jobs are tied to how they’re...
Retained vs. Contingency Search: What Executives Should Know
“Do we need someone now, or do we need the right person?” Most leaders don’t say that part out loud, but it drives nearly every hiring decision for key roles. Behind the scenes, HR is weighing costs. Hiring managers are thinking about time. And somewhere along the...
Cross-Border Labor Trends Are Redefining Manufacturing Talent Strategy
Across the U.S. and Mexico, manufacturing is changing fast. Companies aren’t just dealing with one challenge, they’re facing a mix of labor shortages, shifting demographics, nearshoring pressures, and growing unpredictability around trade policy. It’s making leaders...
How to Spot True Executive Readiness (Before the Interview)
When it comes to hiring senior leaders, most organizations spend a lot of time reviewing resumes. That’s understandable. Experience matters. Titles matter. But executive readiness, the ability to step into a critical leadership role and actually succeed, is rarely...
Why Your Next Executive Needs Cross-Cultural Agility
Hiring a great executive today takes more than just looking at their track record or where they went to school. With teams that span countries and cultures, what matters just as much, if not more, is how well someone can lead across differences. Cross-cultural agility...
What Top Performers Really Want: Insights to Help You Win Executive Talent
In today’s leadership market, where opportunity and mobility are high, companies aren’t just competing for talent. They’re competing for alignment. Executives are being more selective about where they go, not just based on compensation or title, but on whether a role...
What Gets Missed When Tech Moves Faster Than Leadership
There’s a widening gap in many organizations, and it’s not about funding, talent, or even product strategy. It’s leadership. Specifically, leadership that hasn’t kept pace with the speed and scale of technology. While innovation moves quickly, decision-making at the...