About Kathleen Kurke

Well known for her 30 year history of high dollar production and growth-oriented leadership, Kathleen has worked extensively with companies and individuals to leverage learning as a business success strategy. Clients ask Kathleen to work with them on increasing Production, Profitability and building high-performing recruiting teams in the Executive Search, Perm and Staffing industries. Having served as Chief Learning Advocate with Global Recruiters Network, Inc (GRN), Kathleen worked with the almost 200 franchised offices to implement a learning strategy that increased system-wide and individual office revenues by launching over 1000 hours of annual learning content. While National Practice Leader with StarbridgeGroup, Inc. Kathleen worked with training and consulting companies around the world to recruit and hire executive talent to convert their business goals into reality. Her tenure in the learning business has included highs and lows in her various roles as practitioner, search team leader, building and managing a 15 person search firm, as a franchise owner and a franchise consultant and learning leader. Kathleen now works with a variety of recruiting and human capital companies as a speaker, trainer, coach and business consultant. Kathleen began her professional career in 1980 when she traveled around the country teaching sales effectiveness to thousands of fund raising executives on behalf of a national non-profit organization. After several years, Kathleen shifted into sales, starting with opening new territories and moving up to Vice President of Sales for an educational software firm. Moving into recruiting provided Kathleen with a powerful way to leverage her sales and executive experiences, and her long history of helping executives build organizations and struggle with career decisions established her as a trusted advisor and coach. Kathleen has remained a leader in the executive search industry for the last 20 years of her recruiting career, and was selected in 1995 for membership in the Pinnacle Society, a recruiting industry honor society recognizing 75 of the top executive recruiters in North America. Kathleen was honored to serve as President of this prestigious organization for 4 consecutive years, and has now returned to the organization as an honored member Emeritus. Kathleen’s core expertise is in helping others learn and get things done. Working with others as coach and consultant, she is known for helping her clients build dreams, make plans and execute to create results. Often that means laying out a roadmap, identifying roadblocks and building a detour so the journey is productive. Kathleen Kurke specializes in Productivity and Profitability Coaching in the Recruiting Industry. If you or your team would like to make better choices on working Job Orders to increase your production and pro tability, reach out to Kathleen at kathleentkurke@gmail.com.

 

Remember Your ABCs

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Nov 12, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

When it’s first thing in the morning and the entire day stretches before you, your day is filled with possibility. You’re the one to make that happen, and the key to that possibility being profitable is to connect with people and create action. If that thought is daunting at times,...

10 Sample Will-Get-Opened E-Mail Subject Lines

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Nov 12, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Is most of your day spent reading/sending emails? Or, staring at your inbox hoping something important will fly into your inbox? Shame on you, because we both know that email is the sandbox of those pretending to look busy. Unless. Unless you’re sending emails that get opened and responded to. The statistics are...

Four Hot Topics your Client Prospects WILL Want to Talk About

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Nov 12, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

If you’re calling prospects and telling them “I’ve got a guy for you” or, it’s likely they’re not answering the phone or returning your call. Neither of these topics are what your prospects care about, thinking about, or are talking about inside their own organization, so they’ll likely see no...

Unleash your hidden superpowers: Prep Calls and Debrief Calls

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Tue Aug 28, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

We all learned how to do prep and debrief calls when we first started in the business because they were two of the 30 steps in the placement process as made famous by Anthony Byrne. Part of the fundamental basics. Chances are, your enthusiasm for prep and debrief calls waned with...

PBC: The Party Favor in Every Call

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Apr 02, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Motivational, Recruiting

We make a lot of calls in our line of work, and most of them are US asking for something for US. We make calls to clients hoping they’ll be interested in our candidates; we make calls to candidates hoping they’ll be interested in our opportunity; we make calls to...

"Have a great day" can be a painful expression in our line of work. What IS a great day?

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Thu Mar 29, 2018

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Motivational

If the only markings on the good-day/bad-day thermometer is whether we make a placement, there’s an uncomfortable number of bad days happening in between those good days. That doesn’t work for me. I have a high need for immediate gratification and I want to have a good day every day....

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