Despite predictions of a slowdown, growth in retained executive searches in the nonprofit industry beat every other sector, a recent report finds. The Association of Executive Search Consultants released its latest quarterly State of the Executive Search Industry report last week, which measures retained executive search activity worldwide. Of all fields represented in the report, the nonprofit industry witnessed the greatest increase in new searches launched, growing 33.2 percent in the first quarter 2007 from fourth quarter 2006 numbers, the report stated. Every sector saw an increase in new executive searches in the first quarter 2007. On a global scale, new executive… Read More