Posts by Aleksander Sokler

These last few days I have had the incredible opportunity to attend the annual Conference of the IWEC Foundation (International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge) that has taken place on the IESE campus in Madrid. The theme of the 2022 conference has been: “Connecting Women’s Businesses Globally: The Transformative Power of Women in Business”. IWEC Foundation´s mission…

After working for eight business’, and 26 years in the headhunting industry and the last eight years being involved with the CFR Group my time has come to an end. What a ride it has been, JacksonStone & Partners became a member of CFR nine years ago when then Director Richard Stone travelled to Italy…

The sweeping success of TV formats like „Shark Tank“ or “Dragon’s Den” around the globe reflects the rising interest of entrepreneurial ventures and startups. The increased presence of startup incubators, hubs and VC’s further illustrate the high importance of successful startup ecosystems for a country’s long-term competitiveness and as driver of innovation. In general, startups…

In times of a shortage of skilled labor, employee retention is becoming increasingly important. A multitude of companies are acutely looking for skilled workers, experts, and specialists – nationally as well as internationally. Replacing an employee can cost a company up to twice a year’s salary. In addition to obvious, direct costs for termination talks,…

Companies are currently facing labour shortages; they have many open positions and are struggling to find qualified people to fill them. The key could be engaged and satisfied employees and hight employee retention.  What we have learned during the Covid pandemic is that we need to continuously work with our current employees. We need to…

Talent competition has gone global. Companies of all sizes are stepping over each other to secure qualified candidates. Since these candidates are few in number and high in demand, their geographical location has become less important, especially now that technology provides the option to collaborate remotely with no loss to productivity. When diversity, equity and…

Humanity faces a large number and variety of challenges to produce food in sufficient volume and sustainably. Among these are climate change with the different variants that affect countries in various ways (some hit by unseen droughts and others with catastrophic floods). Some of them are like reducing the carbon footprint, stopping global warming, making…

Well, another conference has come to close and we’re all back at work, nose to the grindstone. It was good and it was also busy, some things are a bit of a blur when reflecting on the experience, not least due to the early starts, “the bus leaves at 7.35”, that’s am not pm, probably…

CFR Global Executive Search announces Thierry Faure, Partner at PIXCELL – Leaders Recruiting Leaders to become the new head of its Financial Services Practice, -finaleffective September 12th, 2022. Financial Services are changing and evolving fast! From Fintech to DeFi, the once conservative and quite static industry is facing a wave of changes. Traditional financial institutions…