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Kathleen Kurke

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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.

Four Hot Topics your Client Prospects WILL Want to Talk About

Published: Nov 12, 2018 9:05 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1650
Category: Columns, Expert Advice  |  Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Job Orders, Clients

If youre calling prospects and telling them Ive got a guy for you or, its likely theyre not answering the phone or returning your call. Neither of these topics are what your prospects care about, thin...

Unleash your hidden superpowers: Prep Calls and Debrief Calls

Published: Aug 28, 2018 8:41 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1665
Category: Columns, Expert Advice  |  Tags: Recruiting, Placement, Clients, Hiring

We all learned how to do prep and debrief calls when we first started in the business because they were two of the 30 steps in the placement process as made famous by Anthony Byrne. Part of the fundam...

PBC: The Party Favor in Every Call

Published: Apr 2, 2018 6:28 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1849
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Motivational, Recruiting  |  Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Marketing, Clients, Sales

We make a lot of calls in our line of work, and most of them are US asking for something for US. We make calls to clients hoping theyll be interested in our candidates; we make calls to candidates ho...

"Have a great day" can be a painful expression in our line of work. What IS a great day?

Published: Mar 29, 2018 6:11 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1732
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Motivational  |  Tags: Candidates, Placement, Clients

If the only markings on the good-day/bad-day thermometer is whether we make a placement, theres an uncomfortable number of bad days happening in between those good days. That doesnt work for me. I hav...

Four Hot Topics your Client Prospects WILL Want to Talk About

Published: Feb 26, 2018 5:03 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1604
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Candidates, Clients

If youre calling prospects and telling them Ive got a guy for you or, its likely theyre not answering the phone or returning your call. Neither of these topics are what your prospects care about, thin...

Review/Preview: The Conversation Bookend of Progress by By Kathleen Kurke

Published: Jan 31, 2018 4:10 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1782
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Candidates, Clients

Too often, we ghost out of conversation with clients or candidates. We end with lame, say-nothing phrases like ok, well talk soon or stay in touch or call with any updates or let me know or talk to yo...

Truth From The Trenches: The Perils of Abundance by Kathleen Kurke

Published: Nov 13, 2017 8:50 PM
By Kathleen Kurke  |  Viewed: 1746
Category: Columns, Expert Advice  |  Tags: Candidates, Job Orders, Placement, Clients, Search, Hiring

The headlines are filled with articles the about the skills shortage, the talent gap and the resulting difficulties companies are experiencing. For many in our industry, our clients distress has resul...

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