How can you do a multi-week work trial for a CEO role??? And how is this remotely compatible with attracting experienced top-level executive candidates?
I’m not sure if this is answering your first question, but they wouldn’t just be CEO for two weeks! Instead we’d design particular work trials to test attributes they would need in the role, set up meetings for them to get to know staff and stakeholders, and give them time and information to begin to develop a vision for CEA.
Re your second question: as we say, this is our ideal but we’d shape things around candidates. We know that this might not work for some candidates, but we think that it would work for others. If it did work out for candidates, it would give both us and them a lot more information, and we think that would be worthwhile. If this didn’t work out, we’d work with candidates to find other ways of testing fit (shorter trial tasks, references, etc).
How can you do a multi-week work trial for a CEO role??? And how is this remotely compatible with attracting experienced top-level executive candidates?
I’m not sure if this is answering your first question, but they wouldn’t just be CEO for two weeks! Instead we’d design particular work trials to test attributes they would need in the role, set up meetings for them to get to know staff and stakeholders, and give them time and information to begin to develop a vision for CEA.
Re your second question: as we say, this is our ideal but we’d shape things around candidates. We know that this might not work for some candidates, but we think that it would work for others. If it did work out for candidates, it would give both us and them a lot more information, and we think that would be worthwhile. If this didn’t work out, we’d work with candidates to find other ways of testing fit (shorter trial tasks, references, etc).