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. I’m Darryl Mobley. Catapult Leaders is America's leading executive search...

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 Leaders is America's leading executive search firm that exclusively matches Black...

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 College Interns - for Engineering, Supply Chain, Computer & Data Science, and Marketing &...

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 living. Asking for a higher salary does not have to be painful. By...

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 of those things. But for a job seeker, it can be a whole lot...

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 excuses are outright falsehoods.   All lasting success begins with...

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 year than anyone else! (Throat lozenges, anyone?) Those conversations have...

Susan Mobley here with the Catapult Leaders podcast.  Today I’ll share..   PRO-TIPS: The 7 WORST Things Job Seekers Do that Make Me NOT Want to Help them Get a Great Job.  I love my job at Catapult Leaders. I get to work with some of the most amazing professionals looking to take their careers to the next level.  Most are a pleasure to work with. Some… not so much.  Those who are NOT a pleasure to work with seem to want to self-sabotage by doing things that annoy me and would make...

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 conversations with these folks center around creating positive changes...

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 more than 22,000 resumes. Overall – we’ve learned that the number one thing stopping...

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 increase the number of diverse candidates you interview and fill your...

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% of diverse job applicants check out your company’s LinkedIn business page to get a feel for...

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 your company can become more inclusive and welcoming to Black...

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 professionals are woefully low, perhaps you have conscious or...

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 impact the hiring folks at the companies we work with who want to...

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 Seconds with Catapult Leaders. (https://bit.ly/cleaders​) Catapult Leaders finds, prepares and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Unconscious Bias, Ice, and the Corporate Ladder. Black and other diverse professionals have to get over many more hurdles as compared to others. The hurdle covered today - with host Darryl Mobley - is crippling Unconscious Bias. This is the 3rd of 28...

"No Room for Error" is Slavery. A huge HURDLE for some is the need to be "perfect-like-Jackie Robinson" and absorb all sorts of slights - when others don't have that burden - in order to move up the corporate ladder. Welcome to 90 Seconds with Catapult...

This episode of the Catapult Leaders podcast features Stephanie Cocumelli of Taproot Ventures, on the Diversity Wins! hot-seat answering 5 Questions in 5 Minutes from host Darryl L. Mobley. Season 4 / Episode 27.The Objective: Broaden perspectives and...

No Role Models = No Success. Welcome to 90 Seconds with Catapult Leaders.This is the 2nd of 28 episodes on hurdles some face – that others don’t.Black and other diverse professionals have to get over many more hurdles as compared to others. Role models...