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Timesharing Veteran Explains: The Benefits of Using a Recruiter

Timesharing Veteran Explains: The Benefits of Using a Recruiter

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Author: Staff Contributor | Topics: timeshare news

The Timeshare Authority blog is pleased to have as guest blogger, Keith Trowbridge, President and CEO of Executive Quest, Inc. Keith is a cornerstone of the vacation ownership industry and many aspects of timesharing as we know it today are directly attributable to his pioneering efforts. (Video at the end of this blog post)

Timesharing Veteran Explains: The Benefits of Using a Recruiter

In the face of increasing global competition and today’s challenging economy, few things impact the success of an organization more directly than the ability to recruit top performers who seamlessly fuel an organization’s growing needs. Working in concert with an industry-specific search firm is a strategic investment in an organization’s future. Executive search firms, or “headhunters,” are in business to serve their corporate clients by placing executives with them. A headhunter with timeshare industry expertise, like Fort Myers, FL based Executive Quest, Inc., knows where the top talent can be found, knows how to match the right executive to the right culture within the timeshare industry, and knows how to save and make companies millions of dollars because the right candidates will take off running.

Timeshare veteran Keith Trowbridge, Ph.D., President and CEO of Executive Quest, Inc., has been a leader in the timeshare industry since 1974 when he pioneered timesharing in North America with the development of the first successful purpose-built timeshare resort in the United States on Sanibel Island, FL, the Sanibel Beach Club, a 31-unit timeshare project built and completely sold out in 18 months. He went on from there to develop 17 resorts and market an additional 18 in Canada, USA, and the Caribbean and thus today is known by many people as the “father of timesharing.” Trowbridge retired after two decades in timeshare development, wrote a book, and then slipped into the headhunting business after he found himself being frequently asked to provide connections for timeshare companies looking for executives. His company, Executive Quest, Inc., has now been an executive search firm for the timeshare industry for nearly two decades with searches and placements worldwide, recruiting “the best of the best.”

It is a tall challenge finding the right applicants for its clients, and Executive Quest developed its Resume Management Service to get to better know the candidate and help him or her become even more successful. Along with notification of positions available within the industry, the service provides coaching and tips for interview success, resume critique, a monthly EQI newsletter with the latest information within the industry worldwide, and a complimentary copy of the company’s annual salary study. “At the nominal cost of $89 a year, it is truly affordable exposure to great positions,” says Trowbridge, “and to jobs that the candidate would otherwise never get to know about.”

Executive Quest’s clients are typically looking for employees from almost every department, from finance, operations, IT and management department heads to construction management, service, rentals, exchanges and HOA professionals. The company groups candidates by experience and has over 100 groups, such as Director of Sales, General Manager, Sales Manager, Project Manager, Regional VP, Call Center Manager, Vice President, etc. An organization is only as good as its leaders. Executive Quest’s timeshare-specific database of candidates and contacts opens up channels and pools of timeshare talent that the client may miss, a major advantage over the competition.

Keith Trowbridge writes a free monthly on-line newsletter with a subscription of better than 27,000 timeshare industry professionals that includes a calendar of upcoming industry conferences and events along with other timely industry articles. To subscribe, go to http://www.execq.com and click on the green “Subscribe” button.

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