30+ YEARS OF EXECUTIVE SEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Who This Book Is For
For companies planning new hires, people considering a career change, executive search consultants, and other recruitment professionals – or anyone interested in this topic.
What’s Inside:
- The complete executive search process, step by step
- How to evaluate and select the right search firm
- What separates an average hire from an outstanding one
- Practical frameworks you can apply immediately
- Insights from 30+ years of real-world experience
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Career Change?
Understand how executive search really works — and use that insight to navigate your own move with confidence.
Search Professional?
Benchmark your own practice against three decades of real-world experience in the field.
Hiring an Executive?
Learn how to choose the right search partner and run a process that leads to the right hire.
Want the Inside Track?
Straight talk from someone who’s been on every side of the table — no theory, just what actually works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Olin
Bob Olin spent 32 years in Executive Search, including 21 years at Boyden — one of the world’s top ten Executive Search firms. Over that time he completed more than 1,000 senior-level assignments and met thousands of business executives across Europe and beyond.
Today he works as an author, blogger, Chairman of the Board, and on-demand consultant — sharing three decades of real-world insight through his books and webinars.
In addition to his books about executive search and recruiting, Bob is also shortly about to publish a range of fiction books.

Years in executive search
32
SEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
1000+
AVERAGE READER RATING
4,9★
fact and fiction books
5
Reader Reviews
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— Jaakko Anttila
“Bob Olin has channeled his expertise and insight based on decades of high-quality work in premium executive search. His book acts as a good reminder of industry best practices that ensure client value is delivered.”
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“Bob clearly points out that quality in a service doesn’t come by accident. Highly recommendable for all interested in the search profession, regardless of level or years in the business.”
— Ralf Hermansson
“Insightful and useful about the recruitment industry. A must when you want to land the job you want.”
— Bengt Lindqvist
“Bob’s book really takes you into the world of executive recruiting. His long experience and expertise clearly show — an understandable, down-to-earth approach with no unnecessary consultant jargon.”
— Kari Niskanen
“I found the book something I wish I had available early in my career — and very useful even at a later stage. Covers all you need to understand when being an executive search customer”
— Klaus Kuhanen
THIRTY YEARS OF INSIGHT, ONE BOOK
Excellence in Executive Search Isn’t Luck. It’s a Discipline.
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