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Battalia Winston’s Rick Linde tells DM News about the talent shortage in the digital marketing industry and offers advice on how to find well rounded, talented executives despite the shortage.

Identify two to three professionals you can regularly go to for career consultations, much like check-ups at the doctor’s office, says Dale Winston, chief executive officer of Battalia Winston International, an executive-search firm. These might include a senior leader at your company, a member of your …

Some executives fly across the country to get to work. Elise Bogdan doesn’t have that option. Her only choice is to drive the 90-plus-minute commute to and from Boston every day in her Honda CRV… Walt Williams, a partner in the Boston office of Battalia Winston, said he sees …

While Wall Street firms refused to take a chance on Brian Kroneberger when he was just a year out of college, Ferris, Baker Watts Inc. gave him a job. Now, 17 years later, Kroneberger is one of the Baltimore-rooted brokerage firm’s star managers, overseeing $900 million in client assets under the Dyer Kroneberger …

Terrence Gallagher, President of Battalia Winston, talks to NJBIZ regarding positive industry growth and an employment outlook for select industry niches.

Microsoft’s unsolicited — and recently rejected — bid for Yahoo is apparently creating a feeding frenzy of sorts for Silicon Valley headhunters. The San Jose Mercury News reports that the resulting uncertainty at Yahoo, combined with Yahoo’s previous plans to lay off 1,000 employees, is being seen as a “tantalizing …

The pressure racheted up on Yahoo Tuesday as its second largest institutional shareholder spoke encouragingly of a sale to Microsoft and headhunters circled the beleaguered Internet giant with job offers. “I’ve been pretty much around the Yahoo campus all day today,” …

Whether we’re actually in a recession or not is the subject of debate. What is certain is the rising unemployment rate. U.S. unemployment rose to 5% for the first time in two and a half years in December. That’s likely a result of the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis–and there’s probably more to come.

Letter from the Editor …Economy-watchers have responded to the worries, and a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, How to Recession-Proof Your Career, points to preparation as the key to professional survival, advising workers to update their …

Battalia Winston, one of the nations leading executive search organizations, and US member of Amrop Hever offers executives a survival guide for how to protect themselves in a crashing economy.