Latest Blog Posts for Executive and Non-Executive Recruitment and Transitions

• Ten Things Not to Do in an Interview
  on Oct 23, 2013 in Uncategorized
  Ten things not to do in an interview.1.    Don’t spill coffee down your shirt.  If you are offered a drink always ask for water – it is a safer bet.2.    Don’t be late or go to the wrong address.&n...
• Top Tips for Aspiring Non-Executives
  on Oct 10, 2013 in Uncategorized
  Thayer's Top Three Tips for Aspiring Non-ExecutivesNetworking “This is undoubtedly number one. At a recent workshop for aspiring non executives I thought one of our speakers, Chris Curling, made a really good point when he was saying that he ha...
• Board Assessment
  on Oct 10, 2013 in Uncategorized
  Boards and Board AssessmentWhen I first joined a UK board in 1995 as a Strategic Director, I naively thought that the board just ‘ran itself’. Board papers miraculously appeared from nowhere. Agendas materialised as if by magic. I had no...
• Lessons on Selling Your Business
  on Oct 10, 2013 in Uncategorized
  Selling Your Business Before You Start - Lessons from a Successful Entrepreneur Are you thinking of starting a new company? In the midst of a start-up? Looking for an exit for an existing business? I successfully sold my internet-based company to the...
• Advice for Aspiring Trustees from Second Careers
  on May 7, 2013
  How could a pro-bono Trustee appointment enhance your career?Some of the senior executives on our outplacement and career management programmes are considering leaving conventional employment to embark on a plu...
• A New Generation of NEDs
  on Nov 24, 2012
  Critical Eye is an excellent member organisation that publishes regular articles on topics of interest to Board Directors.  This recent article by Matthew Blagg makes for interesting reading.A New Generation of NEDsIf the requirements to be an e...
• Advice for Aspiring Non-Executives
  on Jun 6, 2012
  The following article appears on the Financial Times Non-Executive Director website www.non-execs.comDecember 2008Betty Thayer is currently Deputy Chair of exec-appointments.com. She is also a Non-Executive Director with the Appointments Commission,...
• Career Advice for MBAs
  on Jun 6, 2012
  Elon University Love School of Business alumni offer students advice during Homecoming 2011Graduates of the Love School of Business shared career advice with current students during a panel discussion held during Homecoming weekend.L to R: Thayer, Ca...
• Board Assessment - Challenges for year to year continuity
  on Jun 4, 2012
  One of my business interests is Across the Board (ATB Governance Limited).  Together with Vanessa Williams of ClarksLegal and Josephine Crabb we have developed a bespoke approach to Board Assessment that has been applied at a major UK membe...
• The Nominations Committee
  on May 8, 2011
  Nomination Committee Contributed by Betty Thayer, Non-Executive Director Boyden UK Global Executive Search, the Appointments Commission and visiting lecturer at Cranfield School of Management’s Non-Executive Director Programme1.0 IntroductionT...

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