Baldwin Gilman in the News

Making the Top Ten: Topgrading for Companies and Candidates
Topgrading—one of today’s hottest evaluation methods—involves identifying employees and candidates as “A,” “B” or “C” players.

The Road to the Corner Office
There’s good news and not-so-good news for finance and accounting specialists interested in moving into overall business-leadership jobs—especially for those shooting for the top spot.

Experienced healthcare practitioner launches national healthcare practice at executive search firm
Rachel Hall recently joined Baldwin Gilman LLC, one of the region’s largest and fastest-growing executive search and recruiting firms. Rachel, working from Denver, will start the firm’s healthcare search practice.

Hire Power: Mistakes Can Be Costly for Companies—and Candidates
It's getting harder and harder to find top financial talent—and bringing the wrong person on board is likely to be a costly error for all involved.

How to Utilize Core Strengths and Increase Value and Resources
Highly talented people often apply for (or already work in) jobs that fall short of making the best possible use of their skills, abilities and expertise. The most effective managers are those who are willing to shake things up to tap into employees’ greatest strengths.

Baldwin Gilman Hosted a Seminar in Non-Profit
Baldwin Gilman sponsors seminar for candidates looking for a career in Non-Profit

The Talent Wars: How Both Sides Can Win
Anybody who’s recruited experienced finance and accounting professionals lately--as well as the pros themselves--can sum up the industry’s current employment picture in one sentence: It’s a seller’s market.

Talking ‘bout My Generation--and Yours, and Yours, and Yours...,
Welcome to the four-generation workplace. For the first time, many businesses now have workforces in which recent college graduates work side by side with colleagues who are 25, 35 or even 45 to 50 years older. As a result, they’re dealing with workers who aren’t just from different age groups--they’re from four distinct generations, each with different values, outlooks and work styles.

How To Groom the Financial Leaders of the Future
Jeff Anderson can sum up the job of preparing the next generation of financial leaders in two words: Hard work. “No question about it,” says Anderson, a former corporate-finance and global-development executive for RR Donnelly & Sons Co., the commercial printing giant. “Leadership development is a difficult, time-consuming task.”

What It Takes to Become a Financial Leader of Tomorrow
It’s no secret: In finance and accounting, the stakes have never been higher than they are right now. Leaders in those fields must grapple with challenges that are, in many cases, far more daunting than those faced by their counterparts in other disciplines. They typically face an enormous, complex and constantly shifting load of responsibilities mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulations requiring corporations to exercise greater fiscal accountability.