Top 3 Headhunters in Corporate History Aren't Headhunters

CLEVELAND, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to jobs expert Jeff Christian, founder of CTPartners and founder and CEO of Revenue Beast, "One might think that the top recruiters are Gerry Roche, or Tom Neff, however the actual list of top recruiters is quite different."  

Christian explained, "The top recruiters are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John Chambers.  Rather than conducting searches for a fee, their model was to gobble up incredible talent. They knew how to scale companies and leverage talent into exponential revenue gain."

Christian added, "Bill Gates was focused on personally recruiting the best breakthrough software experts.  He sat at his desk, hiring search people like me but, in reality, outpaced all of us in the number of recruiting calls he made and the amount of time he spent recruiting.  Success for Bill Gates was based on how fast he could recruit all the best software people out of Xerox, Apple, IBM – anywhere the best talent existed.  He knew that if he could corner the market on software talent, he could corner the market on software.

"Gates is arguably the best headhunter in corporate history," continued Christian.  "He had an almost unquenchable thirst to have all of the best software people working at Microsoft and knew that talent equals revenue and great talent means hyper-speed revenue acceleration.

"The second most successful recruiter in history is Warren Buffett," continued Christian.  "Even today, Buffett looks at the acquisition of companies as buying talent.  Buffett looks for people who know how to win.  He also maintains a stable of the very best talent to recruit into new acquisitions as necessary.  

"The third top headhunter is John Chambers," said Christian.  "Chambers recruited talent by buying companies.  He realized that to own the networking business, he had to recruit or buy the top networking engineers faster than anyone else. Chambers bought the network engineering market one acquisition at a time.

"But, he bought networking companies with such lightning speed, that today it has caused integration issues.  Unlike Microsoft, where the mass of hiring was absorbed into one culture, the strategy of recruitment by company has produced many non-integrated cultures and the jury is still out as to whether Cisco can transition into a single-company culture."

Christian continued, "Many of the top venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield Partners, as well as top private equity firms with whom I've worked are also among the best recruiters.  There is a direct connection between headhunters in disguise and mega wealth creation."

About Jeff Christian:

Jeff Christian is the founder of executive search firm CTPartners, The Number 12 Foundation, and Revenue Beast.

About Revenue Beast:

Revenue Beast is a revenue branding company and the only firm that has one single mission:  designing and building the most innovative and powerful programs to increase revenue fast. For more information go to www.RevenueBeast.com.

SOURCE Revenue Beast