HireAttraction Newsbrief: Recommended Reading

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Recommended Reading

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley.

Competition, coaching and business conduct: Brave Dragons illustrates how the differences between Chinese and American management styles are bigger than Yao Ming’s shoes. This is a funny well-written story about a former NBA coach's experiences coaching the Shanxi Brave Dragons in 2008-2009. Download it on your next long flight.

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Client Compliments

“We were very impressed with our interactions – We find [Alexandra] professional and she has always demonstrated good follow up and solid attention to details. She took a break in her holidays to come and see us in Omaha to ensure we touch base and have face to face interaction” Group President, Metals Company

“I learned a lot from you as we are looking for the
operational director candidates. You carry on the recruiting process and try to understand the candidates in a very amiable way. This is different from what I experienced before. You absolutely gave me a new impression of how the consultant could help in the recruiting process, which also a new way for me to look at in HR work.” Human Resources Director, Specialty Chemicals Company

“I have been very favorably impressed with how you and your team have been handling our executive searches for both the Senior Director of HR and VP of Operations...” Vice President Human Resources, Medical Products Company

“…You have a very satisfied and impressed client... Our experience with [your firm], from pre screening, to arranging VC’s, to accommodating us on the “re recruitment” issue was excellent and I hope to work with you again in the future.” Managing Director, Water Technology Company

“ [The manager] is doing well; a very good recruiting job on your part!” Vice President and General Manager, Plastics Division

Biography

Alexandra Hendrickson is a Partner in the Chicago office of Odgers Berndtson Executive Search. Alexandra specializes in filling senior roles for industrial companies because she was previously an executive at PPG Industries. She has many clients in the chemicals, coatings and advanced materials sectors.

Alexandra has both US and international search expertise. From 2009 to 2015, she lived and worked in Shanghai, China and helped clients find great leaders to grow their businesses throughout Asia Pacific. Prior to 2009, she was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and assisted companies in the Midwest industrial heartland.

Earlier in her career, Alexandra held senior positions in American Express Company and at Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) in New York.

Alexandra has an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Wharton School in Philadelphia and a BA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Articles that Alexandra has written have been published in "Observe Magazine," “Paint and Coatings Industry Magazine,” “CEO Magazine,” “Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine” and “Wharton Alumni Magazine.”

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