How much does a bad hire really cost?

by Philippe Riboton, Managing Partner at HR Partners International Executive Search So you just closed the recruitment of your new commercial director for one of your subsidiaries and you’re happy. But what you don’t know yet is that you just made a EUR 50,000 mistake. According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder, […]

Finished at 50? Are you kidding me?

by Philippe Riboton, Managing Partner at HR Partners International Executive Search Recent American statistics show that there is a hot job market in the US for workers over 50. Interesting illustration: Bloomberg recently reported that fast food restaurants across the US are starting to hire senior citizens instead of teenagers (recruiters working in those industries […]

So what the hell do millennials want at work?

By Philippe Riboton, Managing Partner at HR Partners International Executive Search It’s widely recognized that Central Europe’s job market is a very competitive one. While it is undoubtedly good news that unemployment across the region is at its lowest the less comfortable flipside of this is that the volatility of personnel in some Central European […]

The CEO Roundtable on Branding and Innovation with Gilles Bérouard and Paolo Lanzarotti

Philippe Riboton, Paolo Lanzarotti and Gilles Bérouard

HR Partners’ roundtables offer an exceptional meeting of minds. On December 7th, 2018 we organized in Prague a face-to-face discussion on branding and innovation with Paolo Lanzarotti, CEO of Asahi Europe, one of the largest worldwide brewery companies, and Gilles Bérouard, Global Chief Executive Officer at Hercules and CEO at Havas advertising group for the […]