There’s the salesperson who woke up naked in the conference room. And the aspiring manager who saw his plans go up in smoke when he mistook the boss’s wife for his daughter. Everyone seems to have a story about bad behavior at an office party. Even so, 94% of all companies gave an end-of-year …

After offering positive suggestions in six areas earlier — about keeping résumés short, clear, and well designed, and letting them display problem-solving prowess, progression in finance, and candidate …

Boston-based recruiter Walter Williams, a partner with Battalia Winston International, the New York executive search firm, has specialized in financial recruiting for half of his 20-year career in executive search. He has been with Battalia since 2002. He spoke recently with CFO senior writer …

One might think that asking the opinion of a half-dozen executive recruiters on an issue might get you a dozen answers — or more. But in their day-in-day-out experience dealing …

…Holiday gifting remains one area of the workplace where workers should tread lightly.

“One rule of thumb … is to be sure it [the gift] is appropriate,” says Jo Bennett, a partner at Battalia Winston International, a New York-based executive search firm. …

They say good things come to those who wait, but sometimes it’s hard to bide your time in the hopes that the right outcome is just around the bend. If you’re actively looking for a new job and it’s taking you more than six months, your search techniques likely need to be revitalized. …

There is …

Companies with more women on their boards perform better than those with very few women, according to a study released on Monday, October 1, by Catalyst, a New York-based consultant.

It makes sense that companies with more women on their boards would perform …

The rooms where corporate boards of directorsmeet
are painted a wide hue of colors: gray,
blue, beige, and sometimes green. But the board
members themselves have managed to stay one
predominant color and one gender: white and
male. Triggered by shareholder …

Experts cite a number of reasons for the sharp uptick in screening. First, the Internet and online court and criminal databases made digging up information on a person’s past cheaper and easier. Then there was Sept. …

The amount of money the nation’s biggest nonprofit organizations paid in bonuses to their top executives more than doubled in 2006, reflecting a growing trend toward tying executive compensation to an organization’s performance…

Lyn Brennan, …