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Career Paths: Search and Discover
In the dance that is the executive search process, both
partners take pains to appear as attractive to each other as possible.
Candidates for a college presidency may polish off awards, point to
successful fund-raising campaigns, and cite the rise in reputation
enjoyed by their current institution since their taking office. In turn,
institutions may wine and dine applicants, and generally paint their
campuses as home to Nobel Prize–winning faculty, students, and
staff.
But how do you, as a candidate, know when you're ready
to marry your dance partner? How true is the portrait of the campus
that's being painted? And what aren't you being told? . . .
Excerpted from the winter 2007 issue of The
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