• Best Practice Due Diligence - a 20|20 Skills™ Case Study

    HVS Executive Search is a model for organizations wanting to implement best practices for recruitment. Read how 20|20 Skills™ assessment bolstered Executive Search's candidate due diligence and sharpened its competitive edge in the war for talent.

  • Building Better Businesses with Strategic Employee Reviews

    The recession has motivated organizations to refocus on the critical issue of professional development for employees who have survived downsizing. 20|20 Assessment™ discusses how employee reviews are a strategic tool for performance management.

  • Building Valuable Employees

    Building a satisfied and valuable work-force is no quick-fix procedure; it needs a focused and committed approach. Deepika Malkani takes a look…

  • CEO Selection - a Board Game

    These days demanding investors, stringent regulators and scandal-hungry media are forcing companies to operate under much heightened scrutiny.

  • CEO Selection - a Board Game

    These days demanding investors, stringent regulators and scandal-hungry media are forcing companies to operate under much heightened scrutiny.

  • Cognitive Ability – A Needlessly Elusive Asset

    Cognitive ability is often undervalued by organizations that otherwise strive for high performance and a competitive advantage. A renewed focus on nurturing this competency will strengthen talent management across all employment levels.

  • Creating Effective Survey Projects

    Conducting surveys is a science. Since poorly designed instruments waste organizational resources, this article teaches you the fundamentals of survey strategy. Surveys are competitive advantages only if you can act with confidence on the data.

  • Hotel Industry Boards Improving Under Shareholder Pressure

    Starwood Hotels & Resorts wins top spot in the 12th HVS Executive Search US board performance study.

  • Is Your CEO Worth the Salary You Are Paying?

    This year we analyzed CEO compensation for 53 public restaurant firms. Based on our pay-for-performance model, the top performer was Joel A. Schwartz of Benihana Inc.

  • Leadership… There’s Something Funny Going On Here

    Leadership is not all about a serious, hard-driving attitude. Rather, there’s much more nuance in the truly impactful players in the industry. Most never contemplate it, but indeed there’s something funny about leadership.

  • The Critical Need to Supplement Personality Testing for Recruitment and Development

    Personality testing is popular, but research reveals it is a limited tool for selection and training. However, HR initiatives in 2009 can be bolstered by replacing or augmenting personality testing with best practice skills or competency testing.

  • Three Things to Know Before Conducting Your Own Surveys

    Questionnaires are undermined by three key factors of which organizations are typically unaware. This Q&A with a noted expert provides knowledge to help organizations turn their questionnaire projects into powerful business tools.

ARTICLE INDEX

Attracting and retaining the "best and brightest" is the difference between a marginal return on investment and a business that achieves extraordinary outcomes for its shareholders.

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Our Mid-Management Recruitment service combines proprietary technologies with the high-touch nature of a recruitment professional. This enables us to deliver qualified candidates within a compressed time frame to our clients.

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Our compensation services translate an organization’s business and human capital objectives into rewards solutions. We get to know our clients’ organizations on a personal level and create unique designs that drive their business results.

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HVS works with clients to align their business practices with people practices to produce extraordinary customer experiences. Our evidence-based tools and action plans are tailored to each client’s unique strengths, challenges and goals.

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A fully customizable system that allows you to tailor review forms to specific roles and/or employment levels. Reports give summaries, detailed scores on knowledge areas, skills or duties along with action plans for areas of development.

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A completely customizable tool for measuring and leveraging customer feedback based on the offerings of your organization.

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The HVS survey consists of 40 default questions that gauge integrity, individual, partnership, entrepreneurship, service-branding and realism issues.

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Our flagship 20|20 Skills assessment is a hospitality-specific tool useful throughout the employment cycle. It measures ten core competencies of performance at all levels and presents Action Plans along with the results for use in selection, trainin...

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