Polish your resumes: city manager search underway
Before last night's meeting, the Greensboro City Council voted to hire an executive search firm out of Norcross, GA to help find a replacement for Ed Kitchen, who is retiring in August. They met with Bob Slavin of Slavin Management Consultants, who billed himself as one of the leading city executive search firms.
Slavin's company will be paid $13,675 plus expenses to recruit the new manager. That includes processing drawing up advertisements, taking in resumes, doing background checks on potential candidates and interviews.
"Our process is designed to find someone that meets your needs, not just someone who has succeeded somewhere else," Slavin said. "I may not know the next city manager of Greensboro, but I know folks that do."
Slavin's firm has helped find the city managers in places like Dallas, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Wichita. Their firm also helped pick two of Greensboro's assistant city managers, Ben Brown and Bob Morgan. Slavin said a typical search takes about 90 days from when a "profile" is drawn up and the candidates are brought to be interviewed by the council.
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