Godliman’s Insights covers three areas: practical guidance for asset management firms on hiring well; advice for investment professionals managing their careers; and market commentary on hiring trends across the EMEA region.
The focus is the institutional, wholesale, and retail asset management industry, though the principles on hiring, assessment, and diversity apply more broadly.
Too many managers are promoted for technical skill, then fail to deliver the leadership the job actually demands. Meet the ‘Accidental Manager’, and six ways to keep one off your shortlist.
Clients increasingly ask us to put more women on the shortlist, yet the figures have barely moved in a decade. Hiring more women is less about intent than process. Here are seven practical steps that work.
Women make up 27% of EMEA Asset Management sales, but only 20% of its leaders, and the share has barely moved in a decade. We map the regional picture from a universe of more than 8,300 salespeople.
On this day in 2003, Sarah Rogerson and Rupert Reed set up Godliman Partners as a values-driven Executive Search firm focusing on the Asset
Words like ‘ambitious’, ‘persistent’ and ‘competitive’ quietly put women off applying, often without anyone intending it. How gendered language shapes who comes forward, and the easy changes that widen the field.
No headhunter is ever truly on your side. The UK Employment Agencies Act 1973 makes that impossible. Here is what that means for how you should manage your relationship with any recruiter.
How did a firm whose founder lacks the sporting gene end up borrowing from American football? The ‘Godliman Rule’, modelled on the NFL’s Rooney Rule, asks clients to interview two diversity candidates on every shortlist.
When hiring candidates, most firms focus on skills and track record. Yet research shows that 89% of failed hires fail not on technical competence, but on coachability, emotional intelligence, motivation and cultural fit.
We are pleased to announce that Deborah Pridemore has joined Godliman Partners as an Associate Consultant, based in the US.
The interview is the most common selection tool and the most easily fooled. We set out five traps that lead interviewers to hire the smooth performer over the right candidate, and how to avoid them.
What ‘Trigger’s Broom’ and The Ship of Theseus have in common with some Executive Search firms’ track records. The answer matters more than you might think.
If you stole Steven Spielberg’s address book, could you get a movie made? Seth Godin’s question explains why LinkedIn has given everyone the names, but not the trust, experience and judgement that real executive search depends on.
