Industry Expert Launches Search Firm Specializing in Senior Executive Diversity Pipelining
Connie Garske announces the launch of Garske Global Executive Search specializing in Senior Executive Diversity Pipelining (SEDP). Connie has 25 years of experience in assisting Blue Chip companies in the US, APAC, EMEA and Emerging Markets to acquire highly sought out executives. And while her success is rooted in “Big 6” leadership principles, she continues to set new metrics in talent acquisition by pioneering SEDP services based on a strategic placement model. It shifts talent acquisition from a defensive to an offensive position by helping companies secure highly sought after, prequalified candidates before they become available on the open market.
Garske Global specializes in executive roles from director to board of director in industries such as Big Data/Analytics/AI, Cloud Computing, Cyber and Privacy Security, Energy Enterprise, Healthcare/BioScience, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Software Applications, Telecommunications, and Wireless Mobility Solutions. Companies focusing on Internet of Things (IoT), disrupted technologies and high growth centric areas benefit from Garske Global.
“Our firm passionately believes that high-quality candidate selection comes from engaging closely with our candidates on behalf of our clients to understand their patterns of success over time and how that translates to our client’s environment towards the best possible outcome,” said Connie. “It’s the ability to keenly hear all that is said – and sometimes not said – to identify these patterns and translate them towards the ultimate quality hire that will fast track a team, an initiative, a profit and loss statement, and especially an environment that is leaps and bounds ahead of the competitor.” Connie has the experience to help both the client and the candidate net a mutually beneficial opportunity that results in a high-impact hire.
Connie has successfully operated as an independent retain search professional with her own firm, as well as a valued advisor heading executive searches and building the core executive attributes and infrastructure while inside corporate walls to solve repeatable hiring challenges. Not much has changed in the traditional hiring process, which is why Connie has created a disruptive approach to rehaul the industry standards. Connie was quick to identify what was needed to change the industry to a more client-centric approach while providing an excellent experience on behalf of the corporate brand for the client. This style and level of services was rooted in her Nordstrom days as a college student, achieving the impossible towards the “wow factor”. This approach also has ingratiated and netted a highly referenceable candidate list. Launching Garske Global was borne from witnessing too many convoluted processes that have not changed over the course of 25 years in the spirit of revamping the entire industry services to solve traditional problems creatively through innovation.
The firm’s pride of work comes from years of listening to successful outcomes from the inside of an executive team’s perspective as a trusted advisor at the table and colleague to the performance review process as well as successorship strategies at the board of director level, again and again throughout Connie’s time in search. “There are patterns expressed on the inside that are difficult to duplicate or translate on the outside,” added Connie. “When you are able to put them into a framework that demonstrates value, your work is differentiated from your peers, resulting in a pride of ownership.” Connie’s 25 years of wisdom and experience piecing together the roadmaps that ultimately take the hiring model pain points and translate them into high impact, quality hires on the first slate of candidate presentation shortens the “time to hire,” eventually saving the company time and money.
Global corporations thriving in a new hiring environment recognize the demands for top talent and diverse critical thinking that fuels invention. “Unfortunately,” Connie said, “they can’t risk the convoluted, highly competitive talent acquisition process that forces costly, time consuming, and often litigious compromises down the road.”
OUR SERVICES
Garske Global offers strategic diversity pipelining services that provide greater visibility and control over the entire senior talent acquisition process, which accelerates hiring the best people, while mitigating risks down the road.
• Rainmaking Reporting and Tracking (RRT) is a monthly brief of competitor insights in the market- place as it relates to talent acquisition to establish strategy and execution prompts in acquisition readiness.
• Diversified Talent Mapping (DTM): “Today’s hiring is a relationship that begins with talent mapping, not an open and approved requisition,” Connie said. Garske Global works with hiring leaders well before the headcount is approved. Talent mapping is a customized matrix that provides a simple, but meaningful way to align current talent grids with targeted senior management blueprints, which ensures hybrid world-class leadership.
• Co-Anchor Interviewing (CAI) is a live, non-invasive feedback loop that provides the interviewer with critical and objective perspective that allows them to optimize the interview strategy, including virtual relationship-building video conferencing skills, and ultimately optimized hiring outcomes. Garske Global does this through 25 years of experience in participating at the management table, participating in board of director reviews, annual performance reviews, and intake sessions. This allows the firm to map required power skills as well as desired competencies.
• Synergy Forecasting (SF) is a track and trace diagnostic tool that provides a quick, easy way to proactively track hirings, moves and changes of executive talent in similar industries, allowing clients to strike before competitors.
• Prequalified Retain Dashboard (PRD) is the retained search acquisition playbook, including targeted candidates, resumes, situational briefs, salary and reference profiles that accelerate the hiring of scrappy, highly sought-out candidates.
Unlike traditional executive recruiters who react to an open requisition, Garske Global provides a proactive placement strategy that allows clients to acquire the right people at the right time. The firm continues to expand its strategic talent acquisition ecosystem of rainmaker talent, human resource professionals, diversity and inclusion experts, compensation officers, and employment legal advisors that allows it to accelerate the identification and prequalification of candidates, oftentimes before they go on the market.