👋 Do you play Career Chess or Checkers? Learn from Chris Johnson, cofounder and managing partner of Artisanal Talent, and my latest guest on Product Leader's Journey.
I enjoyed recording this episode, and hope you enjoy listening to it! Chris shares deep insights on how he works with clients and candidates. He also shares advice on how to be deliberate and thoughtful about mapping one's career journey. Key highlights:
🔸 Case Study of a CPO Search
🔸 How do accomplished executive candidates stand out
🔸 Hiring trends - FAANG candidates, Domain relevance
🔸 Wartime and Peacetime leaders
🔸 How recruiters assess candidates for "fit"
🔸 How recruiters think about exceptions to the job spec
🔸 How can candidates craft a strong narrative
🔸 How to balance the use of "I" vs "We" in interviews
🔸 How to talk about weak spots on the resume
🔸 How to build relationships with exec recruiters
🔸 Playing Career Chess vs Checkers
🔸 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in exec searches
Artisanal Talent is a highly specialized boutique executive search firm known for building some of tech’s most talented executive teams. Chris leads the Product and Engineering Leaders Practice, and is one of the most highly sought-after search consultants in the field for these critical roles at tier-1, high profile, VC backed and public companies. Over the past few years, Chris has completed Product and Engineering searches for Rippling, Notion, Rubrik, Airtable, ServiceNow, Databricks, Figma, UiPath, Confluent, MuleSoft, Starburst, GitLab, Splunk, New Relic, Elastic, dbt Labs, Loom, and more.
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(48 min)
