About Kathleen Kurke

Well known for her 30 year history of high dollar production and growth-oriented leadership, Kathleen has worked extensively with companies and individuals to leverage learning as a business success strategy. Clients ask Kathleen to work with them on increasing Production, Profitability and building high-performing recruiting teams in the Executive Search, Perm and Staffing industries. Having served as Chief Learning Advocate with Global Recruiters Network, Inc (GRN), Kathleen worked with the almost 200 franchised offices to implement a learning strategy that increased system-wide and individual office revenues by launching over 1000 hours of annual learning content. While National Practice Leader with StarbridgeGroup, Inc. Kathleen worked with training and consulting companies around the world to recruit and hire executive talent to convert their business goals into reality. Her tenure in the learning business has included highs and lows in her various roles as practitioner, search team leader, building and managing a 15 person search firm, as a franchise owner and a franchise consultant and learning leader. Kathleen now works with a variety of recruiting and human capital companies as a speaker, trainer, coach and business consultant. Kathleen began her professional career in 1980 when she traveled around the country teaching sales effectiveness to thousands of fund raising executives on behalf of a national non-profit organization. After several years, Kathleen shifted into sales, starting with opening new territories and moving up to Vice President of Sales for an educational software firm. Moving into recruiting provided Kathleen with a powerful way to leverage her sales and executive experiences, and her long history of helping executives build organizations and struggle with career decisions established her as a trusted advisor and coach. Kathleen has remained a leader in the executive search industry for the last 20 years of her recruiting career, and was selected in 1995 for membership in the Pinnacle Society, a recruiting industry honor society recognizing 75 of the top executive recruiters in North America. Kathleen was honored to serve as President of this prestigious organization for 4 consecutive years, and has now returned to the organization as an honored member Emeritus. Kathleen’s core expertise is in helping others learn and get things done. Working with others as coach and consultant, she is known for helping her clients build dreams, make plans and execute to create results. Often that means laying out a roadmap, identifying roadblocks and building a detour so the journey is productive. Kathleen Kurke specializes in Productivity and Profitability Coaching in the Recruiting Industry. If you or your team would like to make better choices on working Job Orders to increase your production and pro tability, reach out to Kathleen at kathleentkurke@gmail.com.

 

Urgency: I’ll Show you Mine if you show me yours

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Apr 29, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Most Recruiters surviving the 3 placement or 6 month milestone have come to appreciate the importance of urgency in making placements. Sadly, urgency is often a lesson learned in hindsight when we’re nursing the wounds of mismatched urgency. It can take the form of us not find the right candidate before...

How 2% can get you $275K

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Mar 25, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Recruiting

You are where you are. You stop. You ask yourself: “Where am I Year-to-date? Am I where I want to be?” If the answer is YES, you do a happy dance and you carry on. If the answer is NO, you drown your sorrows with a pity party. You tell yourself that nothing...

LinkedIn Power Checklist: 10 easy steps to get a big dollar return on LinkedIn in just 20-minutes/week

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Thu Feb 28, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Social Media

If there were a contest to see who could spend the most time during the work day on LinkedIn, would you be a contender for the gold medal? There’s no doubt that LinkedIn has expanded our options to find and connect with people, whether it’s for marketing or recruiting. It creates...

The Hot Trend That Will Drive Your 2019 Business

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Jan 28, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Every year when the calendar turns, we start to look around at what might boost or bomb our business success. Monster.com launched at the Superbowl in 1999 and we were all certain job boards were certain predictors of our profession’s demise. When the housing market crashed in 2008, most of...

Trade Shows – Bonanza or Boondoggle?

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Tue Jan 15, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

It’s the beginning of the year and you’re likely starting to see promo ads for the industry trade shows. They’re often in glamourous sounding destinations like Vegas, San Diego or Denver, and the ads for the show are tempting with offers of technology or prizes to the lucky winners. The...

The ONLY Absolutely, Single Most Important Question for 2019 planning.

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Tue Dec 11, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Motivational

Creating your 2019 strategic plan is probably one of the things on your very long “should” list. You “should” plan for 2019. You “should” get back in shape. You “should” clean out the garage. You “should” call your mother more often. And, you might. Or, you might not. I don’t...

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