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Chad Coldiron, director, executive search, and wife Hillary at the 2019 Elevate AEC Conference in Las Vegas.
Finding needles in the haystack As Zweig Group’s director of executive search, Chad Coldiron’s passion is connecting top talent with AEC firms.
By RICHARD MASSEY Managing Editor
H e can throw a curveball. He can also hit one. In the process of finding top talent for AEC firms, a lot can happen, and not all of it is good. Candidates get cold feet. They take an unannounced vacation and don’t respond to emails and phone calls for two weeks. Or an offer sheet dies on the vine. But for a guy with a background in insurance, and a proven history of handling emergencies, it’s all in a day’s work. SEVEN QUESTIONS WITH CHAD COLDIRON. The Zweig Letter: In your role at Zweig Group, how do you Elevate the Industry? Chad Coldiron: First things first. You have to show up ready to work every day in the AEC industry, and in life in general. If you don’t, someone else will and the ball will roll on without you. The AEC industry is a machine that churns 24/7 and demands a lot out of anyone who wants to experience a good level of success in their careers. My
role specifically helps Elevate the Industry in a couple of key ways: 1) Helping firms find the needle in the haystack. This is my true passion – helping firms by bringing the best teams together. Almost every AEC firm is struggling to find talent on all levels. We have worked with firms to find and attract entry- level positions all the way to working with a board of directors through the transition from one CEO to the next. Elevating women in the industry has been a real pleasure as well. The numbers don’t lie; they are an underpaid and often under appreciated demographic in the AEC industry and we are often in a position to change those circumstances. 2) Working in the executive search arena allows me to participate in bringing different networks together. Zweig Group offers so many different services, it’s easy to identify where we might be able to provide guidance or supply helpful data points outside of executive search. 3) Adding diversity to the industry. The Zweig Group 2019
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