Catapult Leaders: Top Talent for Top Companies
Catapult Leaders is America's leading executive search firm that sources Black Mid-to-Senior level managers, Early Career talent & College Interns, and Military Officers - for Engineering, Supply Chain, Computer & Data Science, Marketing, Finance, and Science roles - with top companies that value a diverse pipeline, equity, and inclusion. In providing access to this untapped source of management talent, Catapult Leaders helps companies increase sales, profit, and share. The CATAPULT LEADERS' podcast is a collection of conversations about making it to and in Corporate America through the lens of being Black. It is a show where we talk about the reality of reaching professional goals, overcoming barriers, and embracing the personal change that true & lasting success requires. Our pathway is always positive.1. Visit Catapult Leaders at https://bit.ly/cleaders 2. Open Letter to America's CEOs - Click http://bit.ly/open-letter-ceo 3. Contact Catapult Leaders - Click http://bit.ly/get-CL
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Hello Friend! Welcome to episode 49 (Season 9) of Catapult Leaders podcast’s special edition of the powerful HOW I DID IT! series where successful Black executives share their hard-won learnings & wisdom, obstacles overcome, mountains climbed… (Listen to this Catapult Leaders PODCAST HERE.)
Revealing the true secrets of their professional success.
Why? So that you can see the roadmap to your own super success.
Hello Friend! Welcome to episode 48 (Season 8, Episode 48) of Catapult Leaders podcast’s special edition of the powerful HOW I DID IT! series where successful Black executives share their hard-won learnings & wisdom, obstacles overcome, mountains climbed… Revealing the true secrets of their professional success.
Why? So that you can see the roadmap to your own super success.
I’m Darryl Mobley. Catapult Leade...
Hello Friends and welcome to episode 47 of the Catapult Leaders podcast. (Season 8, Episode 47.)
Today I will share 5 super-fantastic, amazingly wonderful, secret ways to avoid bias in your firm’s hiring process.
But first…
Catapult Leaders is America's leading executive search firm that exclusively sources Black Mid-to-Senior level managers, Junior Military Officers, Early Career talent, and Colleg...
6 Top Secrets: When and How to Negotiate a Raise! Catapult Leaders. Episode 46/Season 8.
by Susan Mobley
They say it never hurts to ask.
It is one of many of life’s lessons we learn as we acquire the skills we need to thrive in an ultra-competitive workplace.
One of the things to ask about that does appear to hurt involves one of the most important aspects of our lives.
That is, the money we earn at what we do for a...
7 THINGS You Must Have On Your LinkedIn Page To Help Executive Recruiters – like me! - Find You For Great Jobs. Catapult Leaders. Episode 45/Season 8.
I have a confession to make. Before I became an Executive Recruiter, I did not know how helpful LinkedIn could be in a job search. I thought of it as a professional network to stay up-to-date with colleagues new and old as well as the latest business news.
LinkedIn is all ...
4 Biggest Excuses (or Lies) Companies Tell Themselves about their Failure to Hire Black Managers. Catapult Leaders podcast. Episode 44.
Excuses are like elbows: Everyone has a couple that they bend to get what they want or use to keep away what they do not want. When it comes to achieving diversity and hiring Black professionals in particular, far too many senior managers make excuses for their failures. In some cases, the...
6 No-Good, Very Bad, Horrible Things That Diverse Managers & Prospective Diverse Managers Think About Your Company that Make them NOT Want to Work at Your Company. Episode 43.
In my role with Catapult Leaders, I get the opportunity to speak via Zoom with 200 or more job seekers each week. Over the course of a year, I Zoom with thousands of Black job seekers.
In fact, I might speak with more job seekers each ...
30-60-90 Day Action Plan: Here are 8 Things Your Company Can Do Over the NEXT 90 DAYS to Create a Much More Diverse & Capable Management Pipeline – Fast! (Episode 41)
In my work with Catapult Leaders, I have the opportunity to speak with great business leaders and change-agents from firms large and small, from every corner of this country.
It is easily – one of the very best things about what I get to do.
Because my conv...
The One Most Important Thing You Must Have in Your Résumé to Get a Great Entry-Level Job After Graduation [Catapult Leaders - Season 6, Episode 40]
[This is a recording of a presentation to university students.]
Today I am going to share what Catapult Leaders has discovered about résumés that leads to getting that great Entry-Level job after college graduation.
We here at Catapult Leaders have reviewed m...
Welcome to the Catapult Leaders podcast (https://CatapultLeaders.com) – where we discuss winning with talent acquisition, talent retention, diversity, and inclusion. We’re all about Straight talk, No sugar-coating, and Progress.
Listen to this episode of the Catapult Leaders podcast for the 12 Reasons why your company should work with an Executive Search Firm that specializes in Sourcing Diverse Talent so you really increa...
Welcome to 90 Seconds with Catapult Leaders.
This is Darryl Mobley.
Why “90 Seconds”?
Because it doesn’t take long to get it right.
The great oilman, Jake Simmons, Jr., said,
“One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don’t know what the hell’s going on.”
Let’s talk about what your company’s LinkedIn page communicates to diverse candidates.
92% o...
Nobody Leaves Heaven: Everybody Tries to Leave Hell (How to Make Your Company More Inclusive) - a Catapult Leaders Podcast hosted by Darryl L. Mobley, with special guests Morgan Brewton-Johnson and Jasmine S. Mobley. - (Season 5, Episode 37)
In this episode of the Catapult Leaders Podcast, Darryl interviews young high-achieving professionals Morgan Brewton-Johnson and Jasmine Mobley, who bring fresh ideas that reveal how y...
Are There Racists in Your Office? That may explain your lack of success recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and advancing Black professionals.
Hey company leaders! What are the numbers of talented Black professionals that you’ve recruited, interviewed, hired, developed, and promoted? That’s it. That’s all that matters.
It’s not that you can’t find them. It’s not that they aren’t qualified.
If your numbers in the pipeline of Black prof...
No more dirty, stinking, rotten, no-good, filthy, smelly Résumés!
You need a fantastic resume. Why?
Because our experience here at Catapult Leaders tells us that the best resume wins.
How important are our clients’ resumes to Catapult Leaders?
We assign one of our expert resume writing consultants to each resume we get from the clients who we are helping get that great next job. We make sure the resumes are great and best i...
Hurdle: Recruiting "People of Color" is a mask that leads to corporations not hiring, developing, or promoting Black talent.
If you doubt me, check out the Black hiring & retention statistics over the past 5 years for those companies that trumpet their People of Color numbers without revealing their Black hiring & retention numbers.
Unilever has the correct approach.
Welcome to 90 Sec...
Catapult Leaders (CatapultLeaders.com) Diversity Wins! Podcast.
Today’s topic: Why CEOs Don’t Hire Black Managers.
Catapult Leaders CEO Darryl L. Mobley and guest Stefanie K. Johnson, Ph.D. cover "Why CEOs Don’t Hire Black Managers," and answer a ton of other questions, including…
1. Why aren’t there more Black Americans in entry-level professional positions and throughout the management pipeli...
The great Frederick Douglass (google him) inspired this thought:
"Those companies and individuals who profess to favor equal opportunity for those they have avoided hiring, and yet deprecate true change of their own behavior and results, are phonies who say they want to share power, without giving up their power."
Join Darryl Mobley in this powerful 90 Seconds with Catapult Leaders as he explores what&a...
Virtue Signaling. You've seen it today, yesterday, the day before that...
Virtue Signaling is a very colorful, often dramatic, empty, disingenuous act of support to show solidarity with a cause (such as hiring certain people who were previously not hired due to conscious or unconscious bias), all to boost an individual's or company's image and reputation - rather than do right by those who've been wron...
Employers often decide who to interview, hire... based on Brand Names.
Brand Names are very effective hurdles in the hiring and advancement of diverse entry-level prospects.
Join Darryl Mobley as he explains why & how Brand Names hurt diverse job applicants in this episode of 90 Seconds with Catapult Leaders. (Got ideas, questions, or solutions? Share them at https://CatapultLeaders.com/hurdle)
Why ...
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