Category Archives: Pinnacle Placements Blog

Would You Hire Yourself?

Posted ago by David Lammert

While many of the candidates I work with as a recruiter have outstanding backgrounds and offer unique skills and knowledge to a potential employer, securing your next position in the security field requires more than this – much more. Ask …

Why You Should Conduct a Talent Evaluation of Your Team

Posted ago by David Lammert

Business owners and managers are tasked with getting the most possible productivity out of their team – it’s all about motivating and inspiring people to do their absolute best. The Talent Review is a tool that leaders can employ to …

Security Consulting While Job Searching: The Pros and Cons

Posted ago by David Lammert

Over the past several months, many security professionals who have been displaced as a result of the great recession have asked me about the idea of consulting within their area of expertise while they search for full-time employment.  In this …

Should You Use Executive Recruiting & Search for Your Sales and Marketing Team?

Posted ago by David Lammert

Finding highly skilled potential candidates for your sales and marketing team has become quite challenging these days. If your company is planning to hire the very best among them, then you should consider the services of an executive recruiting firm …

5 Signals Your Hiring Process Needs Help!

Posted ago by David Lammert

It is an often stated, widely accepted maxim of the business world: great companies begin with great people. When you have the benefit of top-tier talent at all levels of your organization, then the possibilities are limitless. There’s just one …

Are you Standing Still When it comes to Your Professional Development?

Posted ago by David Lammert

Many of us make resolutions for the New Year and lose focus on them by mid-February.  Like our resolutions, our professional development requires a deliberate and consistent effort to improve. While most people in your organization run in place when …

10 Best iPhone and iPad Applications for Job Seekers

Posted ago by David Lammert

Santa delivered a number of iPhones and iPads on Christmas. With over half million apps available you can select some to assist you with your job search (when you aren’t playing Plants vs. Zombies that is). The following apps will …

Achieve Employment Security with These 3 Tips

Posted ago by David Lammert

All types of experts and pundits have their best and worst of 2011 lists out there for us to review. The best and worst need to be noted, of course but, to me, neither of them is actionable. They just …

Get the Job by Showing Them You Can DO the Job!

Posted ago by David Lammert

One of the best techniques you can use to get a job in security management is to prove you can do the job. Here’s how: During the job interview find out as much as you can about what needs to …

Upgrade Your Security Team Before It’s Too Late!

Posted ago by David Lammert

During the ASIS Conference in Orlando this past October, I met with a CSO who was contemplating upgrading some key members of his staff. We talked about what he had in mind and I shared some options that I thought …