TalentRise’s own Carl Kutsmode sat down with Robyn Levin, founder and CEO of Robyn Levin Media, to learn her perspective on the marketing and public relation practices that are vital to forging brand awareness.  Levin is an expert in what she calls “celebratizing” small entrepreneurial brands. She successfully utilizes digital marketing and public relations practices…

The importance of emotional intelligence—also known as emotional quotient (EQ)—at work has never been more relevant. Organizations today are experiencing record-level employee burnout, increased emotional stress, and economic pressures that continue to challenge their growth strategies. Understanding a candidate’s emotional intelligence can separate high performers from their peers with similar technical skills and knowledge.    …

Powerful Practices to Grow Your Business Adriano Pedrelli, a business leader, corporate board member, and entrepreneurial growth advisor sat down with Carl Kutsmode, Senior VP of TalentRise, and offered his perspective on the keys to business growth that he has acquired throughout his career. In his incredibly diverse career, Pedrelli has experienced nearly every aspect…

These two Aleron Group companies align to provide streamlined talent acquisition, executive search, and leadership coaching services to high-growth organizations as they scale. Aleron Group, a talent acquisition, workforce, and business solutions company, today announced that two of its companies will be aligning their services. Viaduct—a talent acquisition and advisory firm for startups and emerging…

If you’ve worked in the business world for several years, chances are good that you’ve been involved in a hiring process that resulted in a “mis-hire.” Mis-hires can happen for several reasons including recruiting challenges, an unstructured interview process, settling on a candidate, and internal politics. In Competency-Based Interviewing: Part I, we explored how a…

“The name of the game is flexibility,” said Carl Kutsmode, Senior Vice President at Talentrise, who sat down with Ruth Macleod, New Zealand Trade Commissioner to San Francisco, to tackle the nature of remote work since the coronavirus pandemic. Kutsmode discusses how the pandemic has changed the workforce, likely for good. Additionally, his unique perspective…

One of the most effective ways for hiring managers and recruiters to determine if a job applicant possesses the skills needed to be successful in a specific position is to conduct a competency-based interview (CBI). Also known as behavioral interviews, this approach requires the interviewer to determine the skills required in a role and then…

It is a widely accepted truth that diversity and inclusion are good for business—especially for high-powered companies. For example, Forbes tells us that “the top 100 Fortune 500 companies have more diverse boards than the other 400 companies on the list.” When considering high-quality candidates for new C-suite positions, what are some policies, procedures, or…

Carl Kutsmode is the Senior Vice President of Talent Consulting & Executive Search at TalentRise with over 25 years of industry experience.  Our content team recently asked Carl for his take on the evolution of the C-suite in today’s talent landscape and Carl did not disappoint. Find out what Carl had to say about the…