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4 Reasons to Seek Executive Employment Advice Even Before You Receive a CEO Job Offer

Two weeks ago, on Wednesday February 21, 2024, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote titled, “4 Reasons to Seek Executive Employment Advice Even Before You Receive a CEO Job Offer.”

The new article is designed for CEOs and C-level executives, or those not there yet but aspiring and, as an aspirant, seeking your first CEO position or your first position in the C-suite.

So, if you are in that position, have you ever considered bringing in the expert to assist you even before you have that job offer?

This new article discusses four reasons why it may be advisable to engage the services of the expert, the executive employment attorney, earlier – that is, even before you get that job offer. Reasons include the following areas where pre-job offer counseling may provide important benefits to you:

Enhancing Your Attraction as a Job Candidate
Guarding Against Missteps and Preserving Negotiation Leverage
Providing an Independent Sounding Board
Ending the Job Negotiations When the Fit Is Not Right

To see my full CEOWORLD magazine. article, go to LINK: https://ceoworld.biz/2024/02/21/4-reasons-to-seek-executive-employment-advice-even-before-you-receive-a-ceo-job-offer/

Or on my website at https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/4-reasons-to-seek-executive-employment-advice-even-before-you-receive-a-ceo-job-offer/

This was my 44^th article published in CEOWORLD since 2016. Previously, the editor advised that I can use “Featured in the CEOWORLD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website and add CEOWORLD magazine in my LinkedIn profile’s “Experience Section” as an “Opinion Columnist.” and authority in the field.

On its own initiative, CEOWORLD magazine created on their website a library of Robert Adelson published articles. You can peruse this library and/or read as many of my 44 published articles as you wish. See https://ceoworld.biz/author/robert-adelson/

With more than 12.4+ million-page views, CEOWORLD magazine is the world’s leading business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior management executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals worldwide. https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceomagazine/

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It is my hope that this article will be of benefit to CEOs, C-level and senior executives and those who aspire to the top levels of the corporate ladder, by pointing to some of the important advantages that can be offered by your obtaining executive employment counseling, even before you receive that job offer you are hoping for. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me – rob@attorneyadelson.com or call 617-875-8665.

Key Terms to Negotiate in Your Next Executive Job Offer

Two weeks ago, on Wednesday October 25, 2023, the executive career advancement website IvyExec published an article I wrote on “Key Terms to Negotiate in your next Executive Job Offer”.

When you receive a job offer letter, how do you evaluate it? Do you accept the terms “as is” or do you negotiate? You do a great job negotiating deals for your company but do you always do as well when representing yourself?

This article explores the situations in which you negotiate the employment job offer, the terms you should focus on and their ramifications, and how an executive employment agreement attorney can help you.

Often CEO and senior executive recruits have considerable bargaining power. The employer wants and needs you. You may never be in a better position to negotiate further than you are at the moment of the job offer.

Assuming you get the salary and target bonus you are looking, there is still an awful lot on the table. Many of these items may be far more important than salary, including these key items fully discussed in my article:

Even if this is your only job offer, one at you must take, these terms are just too important to accept them “as is” without at least some effort to structure terms that don’t change the essential deal but still offer you important protections.

Sometimes just a word here or there, or an extra clause added by a skilled attorney can make an enormous change for you in realizing the benefit of your bargain or enabling you to leave a difficult situation you did not anticipate.

To see my full article, go to LINK: https://ivyexec.com/career-advice/2023/key-terms-to-negotiate-in-your-next-executive-job-offer

or my website, go to LINK: https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/key-terms-to-negotiate-in-your-next-executive-job-offer/

IvyExec hosts articles and webinars from experts in the career, leadership, and business spaces who wish to share their knowledge with our audience. In April 2021, I was invited to write for IvyExec since it seeks original content on the topics of career development, leadership, and business strategy as it applies to senior-level and C-Suite professionals. IvyExec blog posts and webinars are shared with its community of more than 2 million members on its website, in its newsletter, and on its social media channels. https://www.ivyexec.com/career-advice/write-for-us/
IvyExec claims a “Community of 2.5M+ Leaders”.

Navigating Past Clawbacks to Take a Competitor’s C-level Job Offer

Ten days ago yesterday, on Sunday April 30, 2023, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “Navigating Past Clawbacks to take a Competitor’s C-level Job Offer.”

This new article is designed for designed for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, C-level and senior executives, who would like to make a move, who are considering a new position, or who are being courted or recruited for a C-level position with a direct competitor company, but face a serious obstacle in even testing the waters with that direct competitor company. That serious obstacle comes in the form of significant clawback terms in your past executive equity grants with your company.

In many cases, these grants and the clawback rights accrued over the years, can potentially cost a departing executive millions of dollars. These dollars of forced repayment can thus pose a truly draconian deterrent to leaving to join a direct competitor.

How can you explore the opportunity and still protect yourself?

This article fully discusses this problem and then shares some of the author’s techniques representing C-level clients in major US corporations under just these circumstances. The article closes with advice to navigate the clawbacks peril to join a direct competitor, by fully preparing and covering yourself using the two-fold strategy set out in the article.

To see my full CEOWORLD magazine. article, go to LINK: https://ceoworld.biz/2023/04/30/navigating-past-clawbacks-to-take-a-competitors-c-level-job-offer/

Or on my website at https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/navigating-past-clawbacks-to-take-a-competitors-c-level-job-offer/

This was my 41st article published in CEOWORLD since 2016. Previously, the editor advised that I can use “Featured in the CEOWORLD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website and add CEOWORLD magazine in my LinkedIn profile’s “Experience Section” as an “Opinion Columnist.” and authority in the field.

On its own initiative, CEOWORLD magazine created on their website a library of Robert Adelson published articles. You can peruse this library and/or read as many of my 41 published articles as you wish. See https://ceoworld.biz/author/robert-adelson/

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It is my hope that this article will be of benefit to CEOs, C-level and senior executives to offer insights and guidance for you to be able to explore what might be your best opportunity: an attractive C-suite job offer with a direct competitor. To do that, it may be important to first put in place proper safeguards to navigate past the serious potential liability if your current employer has clawbacks in place. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me @ 617-875-8665 or rob@attorneyadelson.com .

How to Manage Multiple C-Level Executive Job Offers

Ten days ago, on Friday November 4, 2022, CEOWorld magazine published an article I wrote on “How to Manage Multiple C-Level Executive Job Offers”

This new article is designed for CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other C-level and senior executives, who currently have or expect to soon have multiple job offers, each job offer presenting an attractive opportunity, and where you as C-level executive, seek guidance of how to manage these offers for best effect financially, and for your families and your career.

This article discusses the art of managing multiple executive job offers to get the best results for yourself, including

How to evaluate multiple job offers,
How to manage the process and in doing so manage expectations of the parties,
What executive contract terms to seek from each company,
How to negotiate for the best terms from those available and still position yourself well for future opportunities,
How to navigate this process while maintaining your current position.

Finally, the article discusses planning your exit to do so on good terms that enhance your reputation.

To see my full CEOWORLD magazine. article, go to LINK: https://ceoworld.biz/2022/11/04/how-to-manage-multiple-c-level-executive-job-offers/

Or on my website at https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/how-to-manage-multiple-c-level-executive-job-offers/

This was my 39th article published in CEOWORLD since 2016. Previously, the editor advised that I can use “Featured in the CEOWORLD magazine” and the CEOWORLD “Logo” on my website and add CEOWORLD magazine in my LinkedIn profile’s “Experience Section” as an “Opinion Columnist.” and authority in the field.

On its own initiative, CEOWORLD magazine created on their website a library of Robert Adelson published articles. You can peruse this library and/or read as many of my 39 published articles as you wish. See https://ceoworld.biz/author/robert-adelson/

Tweeting My new CEOWorld article on “How to Manage Multiple C-Level Executive Job Offers”

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11/4/22 article @ceoworld by @attorneyadelson for #CEOs #CLevel #seniorexecutives on “#Managing #Multiple #CLevelExecutive #JobOffers” including #comparative #evaluation of #companyculture #totalcompensationpackage #worklifebalance

https://ceoworld.biz/2022/11/04/how-to-manage-multiple-c-level-executive-job-offers/ via @CEOWORLD magazine

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11/4/22 article @ceoworld by @attorneyadelson for #CEOs #CLevel #seniorexecutives on “#Managing #Multiple #CLevelExecutive #JobOffers” to #getbestterms from #twojoboffers with #fulltimepostion for one #remoteconsulting for other https://ceoworld.biz/2022/11/04/how-to-manage-multiple-c-level-executive-job-offers/ via @CEOWORLD magazine

It is my hope that this article will be of benefit to CEOs, C-level and senior executives to offer them insights and guidance to make the most of the opportunity when you are being courted and …more than one suitor company is vying for your services for you to accept their job offer for next executive position.

Feel free to tweet or share this article. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me @ 617-875-8665 or rob@attorneyadelson.com .

Building & Keeping Your Executive Team: How to Recruit and Retain Senior Executives for Your Startup or Early Stage Company

This presentation was given earlier this year on May 17, 2022, for the Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network (ENET), where I was one of three invited speakers for the ENET’s webinar that evening on the topic “Recruiting Board Members and Senior Executives”.

As I explained to the ENET audience that night, since 2016, my law work has increasingly focused on executive representations, negotiations over job offers, employment terms, equity, executive compensation, separation and severance, for C-level and senior executive clients.

Today, more than 95% of my law work and 98% of all new law work consists of those representations.

But on occasion, a company will hire me.

Why would a company do that? Why would a company hire an attorney known to be one so focused on representing the interest of executives?

The reason: The company is having difficulty recruiting an A-level senior executive. They cannot pay top dollar and are willing to try something different to recruit that ideal man or woman to fill the pressing need in their organization.

So … in that time of pressing need, the company hires me, as one who knows what executives seek to help the company “think out of the box” – to devise a strategy and prepare documents to get the best executive at the least cost and within the company budget. For a startup or early stage company, it is executive recruitment on a shoestring.

In my work representing companies, my slogan is “Appear Generous. Demand Performance.” The strategy I develop and then the documents I prepare are radically different then most executive employment and equity documents. My documents do appear to be fair …even generous. And in recruitment, I help the company with its “sell” – telling executives, “Even at less base pay you will come out ahead with our package. And what’s more, this package reflects a culture where you will be valued and respected.”

But we still demand performance. My documents are still employment “at-will” and I make sure that a company can readily terminate a non-performer. But what is different, is that my documents provide that if the executive does perform, he or she won’t be cheated out of what they earned. Sadly, that element of basic fairness, is often so rare in today’s corporate America.

In my presentation and slides, I discuss such issues as

Employment position and terms
Base pay and bonus structure
Tax favored equity structure
Fair equity terms and vesting
Reasonable equity rights
Reasonable termination protections
Fair severance terms

Between the revolutionary terms I suggest, and our explanation and “sell” to the executive recruit, I have had a high success rate. Although we are often significantly outbid on the dollar figure, I often get my target man or woman for my company client.

For my slides for this presentation, LINK: https://www.slideshare.net/RobertAdelson/building-keeping-your-executive-team-how-to-recruit-and-retain-senior-executives-for-your-startup-or-early-stage-company

To see and listen to the video of my 19-minute ENET presentation on executive recruitment from my website, LINK: https://youtu.be/vCCJ5RO1blw

or access both my presentation slides and video recording on my website, LINK: https://www.executiveemploymentattorney.com/building-keeping-your-executive-team-how-to-recruit-and-retain-senior-executives-for-your-startup-or-early-stage-company/

It is my hope that this article will be of benefit to CEOs and Company founders who are having difficulty in recruiting a high caliber C-level and senior executive for a role key to growth, and might want to think out of the box…. Feel free to share these slides or this portion of my October 2022 Business Law Newsletter. If you or any colleague of yours has a need in this area, please do reach out to me at rob@attorneyadelson.com or 617-875-8665.