Old Headhunter Secrets, as you might have guessed was founded by two old headhunters, a father and son team. Both Cliff Carson and Ken Carson each bring a unique set of skills and a total of more than 50 years of professional headhunting, marketing and coaching experience to the company. What is a Headhunter, you ask?
Ken Carson former Headhunter, Successful Entrepreneur and Management Consultant.
What exactly is a Headhunter?
Long before internet job boards and social networking existed, there were Headhunters. Today they are usually called recruiters or placement specialists. Old Headhunters were both feared and admired by all companies. This was because old Headhunters had a unique ability to find out exactly what was going on at any company, find and talk to anyone, at any level, in any organization.
Companies feared headhunters because they knew that a talented Headhunter could find and recruit their very best people any time they wanted to by offering new opportunities that were very exciting to candidates. That’s where the term “Headhunter” came from. It was a term of derision for many business managers who had their very best people recruited right out from underneath them. Headhunters took the term as a badge of honor. They were deeply admired by their clients though.
Their clients were always amazed that Headhunters could find exactly the person they wanted to hire. Real headhunters were so good at finding or headhunting people that a standard question they asked their clients was “What companies would you like to see us recruit from for this position?”
Today, the secrets of those old Headhunters have been lost as modern “recruiters” post jobs on the internet and collect resumes. The secrets of old Headhunters died with the advent of the internet.
Well, all of that is about to change. Old Headhunter Secrets has created courses that incorporate all of the highly unconventional techniques that they used to create jobs when there were no jobs for their best candidates. However they wrote the courses so that they can be easily understood and put into place by anyone willing to work at it.
With the worst job market that most people have ever seen, it’s time to bring back the Secrets of Old Headhunters!
Cliff Carson Retired Headhunter
Both Cliff and Ken have spent the better part of their careers training people. They are expert teachers and coaches. For the last 27 years, Ken has trained hundreds people who were in sales, marketing, engineering and even trained high level executives and CEO’s as a management consultant. Cliff spent 34 years training and coaching job candidates ranging from financial professionals, to engineers to manufacturing managers, sales reps, marketing specialists, information technology professionals, and executives.
Cliff Carson started his career in electrical engineering, after doing graduate work at MIT, working his way up to executive level positions at several Fortune 500 companies. Suddenly the job market changed and he found himself looking for a job other than engineering for the first time in his life. He made the career transition into sales and soon thereafter became a headhunter. In short order, he was promoted and managed some of largest, most prestigious personnel agencies in New England.
Cliff Carson became a master trainer and started his own headhunting and training firm. Cliff is a Certified Personnel Consultant. He became known as the “King of the Headhunters” for his unorthodox, yet highly creative and effective headhunting techniques. He taught hundreds of Headhunters his techniques and was a highly sought after speaker at various professional meetings.
Ken Carson, his son, started his career learning at the feet of the master, joining his father’s firm as a rookie straight out of Boston University. As his career progressed, he was rapidly promoted to Vice President largely due to his ability to take his father’s already unconventional techniques and refine them even further. Father and son soon achieved near legendary status in the Headhunting industry.
Ken went on to start his own software company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He grew his first company from 3 software engineers in a small office over a pizza shop to a publicly traded company with 460 employees and $52 million in sales.
He went on to start 2 more software companies with equally impressive results, in the process creating over a billion dollars in returns for his investors and stockholders. He spent several years working as a management consultant, coaching executives from many different industries. After a 27 year career, he is still building successful companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for several high profile charitable organizations.