Showing posts with label CEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CEO. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Chief Operating Officer - Salt Lake City, UT

This is an awesome position for someone looking to join one of the industry leaders in the Mountain West.  Our client is a specialist working with large commercial risks and employee benefits and they are looking for an experienced manager to oversee the day to day operations and implement strategic decisions.  This is an opportunity that will allow you to "have a seat at the table" with senior leadership, gain ownership and grow within the company.  This organization places a premium on education and an advanced degree like a Masters in Accounting, MBA or JD is preferred.


Our client is an established insurance broker with a rich history of successful business development in the Mountain West.  Reporting to the agency president, the Chief Operating Officer is responsible for enhancing internal organizational processes and infrastructure that will allow the agency to continue growing and fulfill its mission.  You will provide strategic leadership that incorporates finance, Human Resources and operational initiatives. Additionally, perpetuation is a focal point of the agency's business plans.  Not only can this position be set up for leadership success, but your plans to prepare the agency for all forms of perpetuation and retirement planning is critical.

Chief Operating Officer Responsibilities:
Work with the director of human resources, operations managers and the agency's client service team leaders to create consistent policies and procedures to achieve insurance Best Practices.
Additionally, you'll oversee the following staff related matters: recruitment and retention, benefits administration, professional development and new hire onboarding, regulatory oversight and employment compliance.
Under operations management you will: oversee risk management and legal activities of the agency's business operations, business insurance and procurement, organizational reporting and monitoring, office management and information technology (best use of new agency software).
Work with the CFO and president to manage business planning activities like: review and analyze financial reports, support the budgeting process, ensure accurate reporting of costs and monitor organizational performance metrics.

Chief Operating Officer Qualifications:
Minimum of a BA; MBA preferred with at least ten (10) years of combined operations and management experience.
Insurance industry experience is highly desired.
Demonstrated experience in staff development and financial planning overseeing human resources, finance, and legal compliance.
Skills should include organizational development, personnel management and training, process improvement, Best Practices, budget and resource development and high level of collaboration with executive leadership.

Please contact Scott Thompson for immediate confidential consideration and additional details.  Email:  sthompson@insurance-csg.com  Phone:  515-987-0242 x455  Fax 515-987-0004  See our website at, www.csgrecruiting.com/ins_opportunities.htm for a complete listing of nationwide opportunities.


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Monday, May 14, 2012

Lying on Your Resume – Perfect Example courtesy of Yahoo


Good Morning!  I hope that all of you are having a great start to the week!  I was watching the news this morning and caught the story about Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo former CEO of Yahoo, was fired for lying about his credentials.  For those of you that follow my blog this is something that I’m pretty passionate about it and have written about it extensively.  You can find some of my other thoughts on the issue below:





To clarify, I’m not passionate about this because it is so wrong – the act of lying is wrong but its not an issue that gets me on the pulpit.  Instead, I’m passionate about it because in most cases it really gains you nothing.  Let’s look at the case of Pinocchio (I’d prefer to call him Pinocchio from now on to differentiate him from other more ethical Scott Thompsons like yours truly) from Yahoo.  Pinocchio lied on his resume by stating that he had an additional computer science degree from his college.  Really..  Really?  This is what he thought would put him ahead?  Steve Jobs didn’t even go to college!

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I’d love to go into the psychology behind why people lie on resumes and since I’m not a PHD (nor would I put it on my resume) I’ll just tell you what I imagine people are thinking.  I assume that these people are desperate to move forward to in their career – it could be for a variety of reasons including drive, hatred for their current job, personal goals, ego, etc.  This desperation leads them to take chances like padding their resume to make them more attractive.  This does you no good and heres why:

Resumes Don’t Get you the Job!!!!!!!!!

In my eight odd years working in this industry, I’ve never seen anyone hired based solely on their resume.  In fact, I’ve helped many people get a job without a resume.  So, what’s the purpose of a resume?  It is a one sheet advertisement intended to make people want to talk to you. It’s sole goal is to get you an interview so you can wow the company with your awesomeness!

Furthermore I contend that any little white lie that adds a little sparkle to your resume doesn’t matter.  Did Yahoo care that Pinocchio had a double degree? – No – they were probably more interested in the fact that he had been the CEO of another tech company.  For the non-CEO crowd the same is true.  Most people that look at resumes aren’t looking at the fine details of your advertisement.  They are focused on three things:

  1. Job History and stability
  2. Where you worked
  3.  What you accomplished

I’m sure that you could lie about these things but this gets into the big lie category that almost always gets caught. 

So, that’s my diatribe on lying on your resume.  Please learn from Scott “Pinocchio” Thompson’s mistake.  It may help you in the short term but in many cases the long term consequences are pretty rough.  What do you think about the issue?  Feel free to leave comments or email me at sthompson@insurance-csg.com  


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