Author Archives: Alissa Hawkins
Turning Vision into Reality: The Leader’s Guide to Change
In today’s ever-changing business landscape, leading change has become one of the most critical and most misunderstood skills of modern leadership. Many leaders excel at ...
1/3/26
A Handler Case Study: Sales Account Manager Placement
The Opportunity Handler was engaged by a global company that develops and manufactures advanced materials and products for the healthcare, consumer, and industrial markets to ...
12/22/25
Handler Hires Two Rockstars
We’ve recently added two new team members to Handler! The growth at Handler has been exciting and adding these two new search professionals to the ...
6/19/23
Reskilling and upskilling employees
The pandemic and current economic climate have accelerated the trend of “reskilling and upskilling employees.” With so much uncertainty about the economy, reskilling and upskilling ...
5/15/23
Insights and takeaways from Be Your Future Self Now
At the start of the year, our team read the book, Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy. It’s an incredible book about ...
4/17/23
Managing a Tired Workforce
If you’re a leader in any business, you’ve had to deal with your fair share of obstacles over the past couple of years. Just a ...
3/7/23
The laws of good retention
Retaining employees will always be challenging. Business leaders have so much on their plate already, and it can be easy to forget how important retention ...
2/1/23
When to promote from within vs. hire externally
Companies are constantly growing and the needs of your business are evolving. Over the past two years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the workforce. ...
9/5/22
Why do some jobs get filled quicker than others?
Why do some jobs immediately get filled while others remain vacant for weeks or months? There’s a lot that goes into making a hire, and ...
8/15/22
5 Ways Leaders Can Prioritize Employees’ Mental Health
As a business leader, so often when we talk about our team, we describe them as a family—a single unit that works together to accomplish ...
6/14/22
