Smooch S. Reynolds

A dynamic lecturer and frequent keynote speaker and one of the nation's top executive recruiters.

Opportunity:

Top-flight executives stake their professional reputation on the advice they get from Smooch S. Reynolds, the founder, president and CEO of The Repovich-Reynolds Group, a leading executive search firm specializing in cultivating top talent for world-class companies. Focusing on the communications, marketing and investor relations functions, Smooch Reynolds, one of the country's leading recruitment professionals, addresses the need for companies to mobilize and preserve the integrity of their workforce. Using a strategic partnering approach, Smooch helps companies navigate the challenges of internal cutbacks and shrinking profits, helping to preserve corporate integrity. Some of the issues Smooch explores are:

• What is the value and expectation of today's corporate professional in the workplace?
• How does a company navigate troubled resources without disassembling the workforce?
• How do employers mobilize a workforce in an economic downturn?

Concurrently, it is Smooch's objective as a recruiter to put job candidates on an equal footing with the executive search community and the hiring entities. While many recruiters have long been shrouded behind a veil of client confidentiality, she offers valuable lessons to the job seeker to understand the idiosyncrasies of maintaining a productive professional career.

A dynamic keynote speaker and popular lecturer, a respected, successful recruiter, Reynolds offers her expertise and insight into the challenges of the workplace dynamic and a nuts-and-bolts solution to managing the executive search process that will empower job candidates.

Topics:

• How to identify and hire a workforce of tomorrow to fuel competitiveness and success for the future
• How to navigate troubled resources without cutting staff indiscriminately
• Tips for mobilizing a disenfranchised workforce
• How to work with a company's internal communications force when a crisis occurs

In addition, Smooch addresses:

• Who executive recruiters are and exactly what they do; what sort of experience, qualifications, and even special expertise to look for in a recruiter
• Tips for gauging a firm's reputation and cultural fit with your organization

Bio:

Smooch S. Reynolds, one of the nation's top recruiters, is founder, president, and CEO of The Repovich-Reynolds Group, a retained national executive search firm specializing in the investor relations, communications, and marketing functions within world-class companies. She has served as the U.S. director of executive search and later director of human resources for Hill and Knowlton's Western United States region. Reynolds was the Southern California public relations director for United Cable Television during the peak of franchising in the greater Los Angeles area and, press deputy for former Los Angeles City Councilwoman Pat Russell. The author of a new book, BE HUNTED: 12 Secrets to Getting on the Headhunter's Radar Screen (John Wiley & Sons), Reynolds is a dynamic, popular lecturer and keynote speaker as well as a frequent contributor to professional journals and newsletters. She recently contributed a chapter, "How to Take Charge When a Headhunter Calls," to the recently published book, Navigating Your Career. Reynolds has a B.A. degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.

Sample Client List:

Smooch's impressive roster of clients includes: A.G. Edwards & Sons, AlliedSignal, Barclays Global Investors, Boeing, Cisco Systems, CNF Transportation, CompuServe Network Services, Dell Computer, Edelman Public Relations, Hewlett-Packard, Hill and Knowlton, Intel, Miller Brewing, EDS, Visa USA, and Nike.

Smooch has been featured in:

The New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Newark Star-Ledger, and BusinessWeek online, Fortune.com, as well as heard on National Public Radio's MarketPlace Morning Report and Bloomberg Radio.