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Featured first on LinkedIn<\/div>\n

This article was first featured on LinkedIn by Dan Heiman<\/strong>, Global President and Managing Partner of Cornerstone Executive Search<\/strong>, a fellow practice within the Cornerstone International Group network. We are sharing it here for hospitality leaders who are weighing whether retained executive search is the right approach for an important leadership hire. You can read the original on LinkedIn here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Shared by the Cornerstone Hospitality team · August 3, 2026<\/div>\n
Retained executive search, Hospitality, Travel & Leisure · ~10 min. read<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Retained executive search and executive recruiting can feel unfamiliar if you have never worked with an executive search firm, or if you are deciding whether outside support is the right approach for an important leadership hire.<\/p>\n\n

To help demystify the executive recruitment process, we asked Dan Heiman, owner of Cornerstone Executive Search and a retained executive search professional with more than 20 years of experience, to answer some of the questions business leaders ask most often before beginning an executive search.<\/p>\n\n

Why the stakes are high<\/p>\n

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40%<\/div>\n
of senior executives are pushed out, fail, or quit within 18 months of starting a role [1]<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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46%<\/div>\n
of new hires fail inside 18 months, and 89% of those failures are about attitude and fit, not technical skill [2]<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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82%<\/div>\n
of surveyed hotels report a staffing shortage, which raises the value of getting every senior hire right [4]<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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60 to 90<\/div>\n
days is the typical window for a retained executive search, from kickoff to an accepted offer<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The stakes behind a critical leadership hire, and why more organizations turn to retained executive search. Full sources are listed beneath the article.<\/p>\n\n

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