Moving Beyond Performative Diversity in Executive Hiring

Strategies and Tactics for Supporting Diversity in Hiring What is performative diversity? Performative diversity is when an organization advocates and affirms a commitment to DEI but takes no practical actions towards achieving it. Moving past affirmations and into action requires thoughtful, proactive, and concrete steps to foster a workplace that genuinely values a broadly diverse workforce. One […]

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Forget Being a Generalist: Be a Multi-Specialist!

Once upon a time, you would ask a person what they did for a living and they would likely tell you they were in sales. Or marketing. Or accounting. Or technology. Or one of several other common, easily-identifiable career categories.​These days?  Well, thanks to the increased “consumerization” of the labor market and the resulting hyper-specialization of most job functions, […]

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Five Tips to Prepare for an Interview

Hello. My name is Ed Rogan. I am a Partner at The Valtas Group and I work in our executive search practice.​In this video, I’m going to offer five tips for preparing to interview. Before I jump into the tips, I want to set just a bit of context. At the Valtas Group, we specialize in working […]

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Five Common Interview Questions

My name is Ed Rogan. I am a partner at Valtas Group, and I work in our executive search practice. In this video, I am going to talk about five common interview questions.​Now I am not going to tell you what to say because well, that would be cheating. But I will offer guidance on how […]

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5 Tips for Video Interviews

Video based interviewing has become more common in recent years and as a recruiter I have participated in hundreds of them myself.​I have made a number of observations about the candidates that I have interviewed, and in this video, I  will be sharing a few tips to help you present yourself most effectively in your […]

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