Hiring insights, talent trends, and career advice from Canada's senior-level recruitment partner.
The real triggers to hire a CFO in Canada, how the role differs from a controller or VP Finance, when a fractional bridge makes sense, and what to screen for.
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How to read the honest signals that a senior leader is not working, and run a discreet, confidential transition without unsettling your team or tipping off the market.
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A counteroffer looks like a money problem but is really a process problem. Here is the playbook to protect an executive hire from the first interview to the first day.
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Hire your first VP when you have a repeatable motion to scale, not when revenue hits a number. The readiness signals, what to prove first, and how to scope the role.
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Fractional, interim, or full-time executive? Compare cost, timeline, and fit, and learn how to choose the right leadership model for your senior gap.
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Reference checks are where most senior hires are quietly saved or lost. Who to call, the questions that predict success, and the red flags to chase before you make the offer.
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A buyer's checklist for choosing an executive search firm in Canada: the fee models, the eight questions to ask, and the guarantees to demand.
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Your in-house team fills the funnel. A director or VP hire is usually won in the passive market. Here is when an executive search firm earns its fee, and when it does not.
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A 30-60-90 onboarding plan that keeps a senior hire from becoming an expensive miss, and what the hiring leader owns.
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Executive compensation in Canada in 2026 is best read as total compensation, not base salary. Directional benchmarks for director, VP and C-suite roles, and how to structure an offer that closes.
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A plain-English, Canada-specific guide to retained vs contingent executive search: how each model works, what it costs, when to use which, and how to vet a search partner.
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Senior hiring is high-stakes and slow by default. Five principles that consistently separate the hires that stick from the ones that do not.
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