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Columnist: Dan Toussant, Executive Recruiter

Dan ToussantDan Toussant, Executive Recruiter, is the President of Dan Toussant & Associates, a recruitment and HR consulting business built around executive, management and sales searches. Dan offers clients a dual focus of recruitment and coaching expertise with over 30 years of Human Resource Management experience. He has held corporate managerial training and recruitment responsibilities for publicly traded global manufacturing and electric utility organizations.

As an entrepreneur, Dan established a human resource consulting division that provided recruitment, career transition coaching, and human resource outsourcing services to clients within a professional service firm, and managed that human resource consulting practice for seven years.

As the corporate HR leader, Dan led the recruitment programs in both a hospital and a professional service firm. He also developed an innovative leadership training program for junior partners and managers. He authored a nationally recognized performance coaching system, and served as senior adviser to that system.

Dan Toussant & Associates is a franchise member of Sanford Rose Associates network, the eleventh largest search firm in the US and the Americas. The firm also holds memberships in the Ohio Recruiters Association and the Society of Human Resource Professionals.

Dan is also a partner in The Interview Doctor, an HR training-coaching collaborative to provide smart-hiring strategies to hiring managers and job-interviewing skills coaching to career changers.

Dan is an active member of Toastmasters International and the Society for Human Resource Management. He earned the Senior Professional in Human Resources designation. He serves on two non-profit boards for children, and also chairs a program for children of incarcerated parents.

Learn more about Dan in our featured expert article from April 2017

How Do You Vet Self-Starter-Ness?

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As a lifer HR professional, I recently learned some things from a client that added to my ability to assess soft skills.  Leadership certainly involves the willingness and ability to take charge of any role.  In this article, I describe how to assess the three traits I call self-starter-ness traits. First, how well does this […]

Find Out Why You Should Take The Recruiter Call

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Do you receive calls from executive recruiters? Do you treat those calls with the same disdain that you do robo-calls? Dan Toussant, Executive Recruiter, discusses why it is important to take the call, and what to look for in a potential partner recruiter who can help you grow your business. Watch more episodes in Dan’s […]

How Can Good Recruiter-Questions Build Trust?

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How can a series of good questions create a bond of trust and friendship?  How can a skilled executive search consultant establish themselves with a candidate by asking questions?  And what questions work best to encourage a potential candidate to assess their own employment, and evaluate whether they should consider another opportunity? There are a […]

Are You Hiring Big Enough?

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Have you hired in the last year and upon reflecting realized that you didn’t think big enough, that there were parts of the role that you minimized until you had the person on board? Join Dan Toussant as he shares 3 tips for thinking big enough before the hiring process so you don’t make a […]

Three Areas to Consider Before You Recruit Your Next Sales Professional

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We talk regularly with hiring managers that want to add a sales professional to his or her team.  We ask that they consider three things. Expectations, Testing, and the Process and Timeline. Here’s an explanation of the three areas of planning in the hiring of a sales person. Number one: Define expectations, and clarify whether […]

Hiring the Best in a Tight Job Market

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Do you work in a technical world where there are more jobs than there are candidates to fill them?  In our market today in many industries there are more jobs than there are candidates.  If somebody decides they want to change companies, they don’t have just one option, they’re going to have two or three […]

How Do You Vet Self-Starter-Ness?

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How do you vet Self-Starter-Ness? Dan Toussant recommends looking at three traits that a client of his asked him to assess in reference calls that he was making on behalf of the client; all of these traits relate to being a self-starter. Watch more episodes in Dan’s series, Insider Tips From an Executive Recruiter

What Are 3 Parts to a Growth Culture in a Business?

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What impacts a growth culture?  In hiring an executive or a key person in your organization, how important to you is culture? If you believe that kind of stuff takes care of itself, you are missing an opportunity to hire toward building a well-defined environment, essential for continual growth.  While there are many factors to […]

How Do You Vet a Candidate’s Collaborative and Customer Focus?

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Really knowing what you are getting when you hire someone is hard. How do recruiters vet candidates? What questions do they ask that reveal real leadership talent? Watch this episode to get answers from Executive Recruiter, Dan Toussant. Watch more episodes in Dan’s series, Insider Tips From an Executive Recruiter

Three Skill Sets Most Sought After Today

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  • 7 Years ago
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What are the most sought-after skill sets companies seek today? Dan Toussant identifies the THREE core competencies or skill sets that smart companies cannot get enough of, and always seek to hire. Watch more episodes in Dan’s series, Insider Tips From an Executive Recruiter 
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