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[UpwardsNskywards]

What does the title "Vice President" mean to you? And is the acronym 'VP' widely known?

Context:
DH is taking voluntary redundancy..His current job title is along the lines of "Vice President of [Specialism] for [Small but strategically important department] of [Very large international company]". On his CV he has contracted this to "VP of [Specialism] for [acronym] of [acronym]". He is looking for a sideways or one-step-down move and thinks the VP title might be a disadvantage, as not all companies use it.

Bump?

I've worked in blue chip companies. VP would be very recognisable to me. It would be my bosses boss as a senior leader/manager. Or one or two down from leadership team, chief exec, cfo etc

Random opinion, I take VP as a title less seriously in American companies as there seems to be VPs of everything though

I run a recruitment team focused on VP level hires and up. I'd assume he was at CEO -4 in a largish company, and maybe CEO -5/6 in a huge conglomerate. Personally id want to see the scope of his role (global, regional etc.) as well as his span of control (team size, P&L etc.) on his CV to make sure I pitched roles at the right level to him.

Someone who looks after senior recruitment in an agency or in-house would be well aware of VP title

Senior in most blue chips except banking where it's a junior role.

Hi BrioLover. If he wanted to find a recruitment consultant who specialises at this level, what's the best way to go about it? What search terms should he use and how would he sort wheat from chaff?

It's more than 15 years since he last applied for a job, and he worked his way up to VP from a more junior role, so has not experienced the senior recruitment landscape outside of his own company before. He's getting advice from a redundancy consultant through work - they advised him to look at recruitment consultants that his LinkedIn connections are connected to, and what companies they are connected to, so he has contacted some. However he's only been on LinkedIn for a few months, so doesn't have an extensive network.

He needs to look for an agent or several specialising in his industry, get his LinkedIn profile and set to open to work (not with the bloody green banner over his image but in settings so recruiters can find him).

Everyone will know what VP means.

@UpwardsNskywards I'd start with the SHREK firms - Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Russell Reynolds, Egon Zehnder and Korn Ferry. They're the top search firms globally. Korn Ferry have the additional benefit that they have their Professional as well as Exec Search teams, so cross more levels than the others. He can look on their websites and select the firm that best matches his industry. Another good up and coming firm is True Search.