Clockwork Recruiting Blog

When carrying out a search project, it helps to have as much information on a person as possible. The more information you have on a person, the better you’re able to evaluate them as a candidate, and the more data you’ll have to analyze your firm’s People Database.

While Clockwork comes with all of the standard fields you need, some of our customers have specific information they want to track. That’s where Custom Fields come in. When you need to capture specific information about a person, regardless of project or candidate status, Custom Fields allow you to capture this data and use it in a multitude of ways. 

Diversity has been a topic of discussion for nearly 30 years. In the 1980s, Diversity became a popular theme and focus in movies and TV storylines, and perhaps this theme is why there has been a new-found resurgence for 80’s popular culture. Up until the last five years Diversity had taken a relatively passive role in the workplace for building a corporate culture of inclusion, trust and respect. However as new generations of talent begin to rise up from managerial roles and into Director level positions and above, Diversity and Inclusion has become a pivotal business best practice and focal point for attracting and retaining key talent.

Consulting is the cornerstone of the executive search process. 

As the founder of an executive search software company, one question I often get asked is, “Will advancing tech, like AI, eventually replace executive recruiters?”

Let’s say for example you're a partner at a firm and you have a long list of clients that you've worked with over the years in the tech sector in the Bay Area. Subsequently, you want to add these folks to an internal project called  “Clients - Tech Indus., Bay Area.” If you're using this list primarily for marketing purposes, you want to label it as such and focus the project for that specific function.

As an executive recruiter, one of the key components of your job is to consistently keep your search project moving forward. That’s a multifaceted responsibility, and too often a recruiter will make one mistake in particular that can significantly slow their search project: not scheduling the interviews between the candidates and the client themselves.