Category Archives: Metis Articles

Understanding a Recruiter’s Function I held a CFO level role at a publicly traded company as recently as 2011. As a result, I maintain an uncommon perspective of the candidate-recruiter relationship after having recently sat on both sides of the table. After meeting with hundreds of senior financial professionals this year, I perceive a meaningful […]

Investors took a wait and see attitude throughout much of 2012. While new job creation remained weak, layoffs and the unemployment rate stabilized during the second half of the year.  The general election is now over and the business community did not get what it wanted most: clarity regarding future tax rates and the regulatory […]

Our last newsletter considered LinkedIn’s usefulness as a tool to obtain deeper insight into a candidate’s communication and leadership capabilities.  This issue, we consider additional areas in which LinkedIn may assist hiring managers and recruiters to more accurately assess candidates. At Metis CFO, we routinely check to ensure candidate profiles on LinkedIn are consistent with […]

  The impact social media sites have had on our personal lives and professional careers is undeniable. While the young industry continues to evolve, Facebook has become as iconic to the thirty and under crowd as Coca-Cola and Levi’s to earlier generations.  LinkedIn, estimated to have over 21 million unique monthly visitors, is the most […]

Intangible factors (leadership, discernment, innovative thinking, etc.)  often delineate the difference between a great hire and an average hire or failure.  Unfortunately, intangibles cannot be conclusively identified and objectively analyzed like employment experience, degrees, and professional designations. Hiring managers typically have a firm grasp of the traits required for success for a given position. Conversely, […]