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Kraft Search News, Articles and Press Releases
Most of these Kraft Search news, articles and press releases focus on Healthcare executive search and Healthcare executive recruiting and were written by Paul Frankenberg and other Kraft Search Associates staff members.
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Articles and Press Releases
NCAA Men’s Basketball Finals and Healthcare Executive Search – What Do They Have in Common? (Reprinted from the Nashville Medical News)
2008-05-12: I work in the healthcare executive search arena and have the opportunity to recruit outstanding executive leadership for the country’s leading healthcare organizations. Outside of work, I am an avid sports fan, especially those big games when championships are on the line. Despite my best efforts to separate work and pleasure, my brain draws parallels that connect these two arenas, which happened Monday night. MORE
Healthcare Executive Recruiting - Bet on the Horse or the Jockey?
2008-05-07: Healthcare venture capitalists often use horse racing analogies when discussing ideal investments. These venture capitalists prefer to bet on the jockey versus the horse. Their logic, it’s the people that drive the business. MORE
Healthcare Executive Search Firm Expands to Dallas – Lourdes Cordero Joins Kraft Search Associates
2008-03-31: The nationally-recognized healthcare executive search firm, Kraft Search Associates, is pleased to announce Lourdes Cordero has joined the firm and will be working in the company’s new Dallas, TX office. (Press Release) MORE
Rising Star: CEO Frankenberg cycled to top at Kraft Search Assoc. (Reprinted from the Nashville Business Journal)
2008-03-28: As CEO of Kraft Search Associates, Paul Frankenberg leads a firm that was named among the top 25 health care search firms in the United States by Modern Healthcare magazine. MORE
Executive Succession Planning - Taking It to the Board Room
2008-03-17: Executive succession planning should be an ongoing Board function. Best practices organizations are moving executive succession planning and leadership development from the human resources department into C-level suites and the Board Room in their pursuit of elevated business continuity planning. This is because the business and financial risks of executive mis-hires and misalignment can be as threatening to the viability of an organization as an operations failure or a major data security breach. MORE
Executive Recruiting Advice - Don't Underestimate The Cost Of A Mis-Hire
2008-02-06: Effective, laser-focused executive recruiting is vital in any organization. Every CEO will agree that hiring and retaining high-quality executive leadership is crucial to achieving their strategic business goals. However, very few CEO's have accurate data to openly discuss the true cost of a bad hiring decision. MORE
Executive Search Firms Can Lead Their Segment By Publishing Quality Outcomes Data
2008-01-14: Executive search firms tend to keep the quality outcomes they provide to their clients private. However, superior quality levels provide a significant competitive advantage if customers understand the data and if they see value in the benefits. MORE
Healthcare Executive Leadership - Global Career Planning Creates New Opportunities
2008-01-09: Healthcare executive leadership has gone global. As a result, a growing number of opportunities are becoming available for individuals whose career planning efforts have prepared them for the extraordinary challenges and the long-term rewards that an international assignment offers. MORE
Healthcare Executive Search Firm Leads Industry by Publishing Quality Outcomes
2008-01-07: Most executive search firms keep their quality outcomes private. We've published our quality results here. Will other executive search firms do the same? (Press Release) MORE
CFO Succession Planning - 3 Tactics to Use If You're Not Being Groomed for the CFO Position
2008-01-04: CFO succession planning doesn't exist in a majority of companies. As a result, talented mid-level executives are left with considerable uncertainty about their opportunities for continued professional advancement. However, there is a way for aspiring CFO candidates to prosper and grow within this environment of uncertainty. MORE
Modern Healthcare Magazine Names Kraft Search Associates, LLC Top 25 Healthcare Search Firms
2007-07-10: Kraft Search Associates has been listed 23rd by Modern Healthcare magazine in its 2006 national ranking of healthcare executive search firms. MORE
Wanted Older Workers - No Longer Seen as a Liability, Seasoned Workers May Hold Keys to Business Success
2006-09-08: Erica Whittlinger's job running a money management firm was exciting, high-powered, lucrative, fast-paced—and it was killing her. She began suffering from heart problems and realized that if she kept up her current lifestyle, she was literally going to die at her desk. MORE
Owen Offers Foundation for Health Care Careers
2006-09-06: Many signs point to career opportunities in health care: advances in medical science and technology, technology applications and electronic health records, evidence-based medicine, consumer-driven health care, and the aging population. The leadership role Owen is assuming through its Health Care MBA is supported by both industry leaders and industry trends and statistics. MORE
Interview candidates using the GEOADA approach
2006-01-23: Whether you're in a small business, a pre-IPO start up, or a Fortune 50 company, you're likely to find that the best managers are not always the best interviewers. On the other side of the desk, the best candidates for a position are not necessarily the best interviewers either. MORE
Generation X vs. Baby Boomers?
2005-11-01: It's time to pit a group of seasoned Baby Boomers against a group of high energy, techno-enabled, Generation X business professionals. MORE
Four must-do's when hiring for a leadership role
2005-06-01: During our conversation the CEO asked, "Why should I use a search firm?" I decided to talk with him about specific circumstances in which he should engage a firm and based on his needs, what type of firm would fit best. MORE
Should I use a search firm?
2005-06-01: During our conversation the CEO asked, "Why should I use a search firm?" I decided to talk with him about specific circumstances in which he should engage a firm and based on his needs, what type of firm would fit best. MORE
Other Kraft Search News
Kraft Search Associates has also been written about, featured in, or quoted in various local and national publications. A list of these Other Kraft Search News items can be viewed here.
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Thank you.
Paul Frankenberg
President, C.E.O. and Principal
Kraft Search Associates, LLC
The Quality Leader in Healthcare Executive Search
555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37228
Phone: (615) 782-4276
Kraft Search Associates was founded in February 2001 as a quality-focused, action-oriented, and results-driven Healthcare executive search firm. Our founding goal was to create a retained executive search firm capable of providing exemplary service and superior results to the company's clients throughout the Healthcare industry. And, it is our belief, based on our ongoing client feedback, client retention rates, and our own internal quality outcome metrics, this core vision is being met.
Our goal is not to become the nation's largest Healthcare executive recruiting company based merely on number of offices, total staff size, or total revenues. Instead, our goal is to provide the best possible services to our clients; to deliver the best possible candidates for our client's key leadership positions; and to insure the highest possible long-term retention rates for the positions that we fill. We believe that by consistently striving to achieve these critical executive recruiting goals our business will continue to prosper and grow.
We invite you to contact one of our executive recruiting consultants to discuss your Healthcare executive recruiting needs. We'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss the 'Kraft Search Difference' and how it can improve your company's bottom line.
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Kraft Search Earns "Top 25" Ranking
Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked Kraft Search Associates one of the nation's "Top 25" Retained Healthcare Executive Search Firms.Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"Executive Recruiting Advice - Don't Underestimate the Cost of a Mis-Hire."
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
International Health Care Trade Mission
Sept. 7-12, 2008
Paul Frankenberg will join a group of senior health care executives from across the United States for a week long trade mission to Sweden and Germany to meet with top industry executives, health care officials, government leaders and others who play key roles in the health care systems of those nations and the broader European Union.
Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"Executive Succession Planning - Taking It to the Board Room"
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
Kraft Search
Opens New Office
in Dallas, Texas
We are pleased to announce
Ms. Lourdes Cordero
has joined the Kraft Search Associates Team and will be working from the company’s new office in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Cordero's extensive Healthcare Industry experience, diversity and deep industry relationships will further solidify our position as the nation's leading Healthcare Executive Search Firm.
Read Ms. Cordero's professional biography here.
Or, if you'd like to read our recent Press Release, or any other recent Kraft Search news or articles, visit our Press Room.
Featured Article
Read Paul Frankenberg's recent article:"NCAA Men’s Basketball Finals and Healthcare Executive Search – What Do They Have in Common?"
Or, if you'd like access to all recent Kraft Search articles and press releases, visit our Press Room.
Megan & Melissa Join Health Care Delegation in Washington, D.C.
Leadership Health Care and the Nashville Health Care Council recently hosted eighty delegates from diverse sectors of the health care industry, including two delegates from Kraft Search Associates, for a 2-day Conference in Washington, D.C. focused on meetings with top healthcare policy makers, administration officials, and other healthcare industry thought leaders.
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