Joe Culotta
President
Executive Job Experts

Today’s job‑seeking executives are grappling with the harshest hiring environment in over two decades, with leaders from even Fortune 500 companies sidelined for six to twelve months before securing their next role. Government jobs reports don’t expose the real carnage.

A confluence of market forces is causing once‑courted executives to endure protracted, bruising searches as hiring stalls and compete against as many as 2,000 other applicants. LinkedIn data shows 300,000 executives actively looking for work. In today’s environment, an executive’s resume with 20 years of experience at a Fortune 500 company gets a 6-seconds glance, and AI and human biases impede an executive’s path forward.

One of the world’s leading executive job experts, Joe Culotta, delivers hard data and clear insight on today’s executive job market and what it takes to succeed in it. A cross between Kevin O’Leary’s blunt realism, Harry Enten’s data‑driven analysis, and Dr. Phil’s straight talk, he offers executives the truth about what they must do to win their next role in a high‑stakes, zero‑sum hiring
environment where one mistake can have catastrophic consequences.

Drawing on decades of experience, Joe Culotta, president of Executive Job Experts, has advised Fortune 500 leaders, a former White House Chief of Staff, and CEOs on how to chart a viable path in today’s brutal hiring market. He has authored numerous white papers educating executives on the necessity for data-informed strategy and positioning

• The real carnage that government jobs reports don’t reveal
• The market forces that make executive job searches more brutal than ever
• How AI is wreaking havoc on executive job searches
• ChatGPT: an executive job seekerʼs savior or a false prophet?
• Tears, fears, and despair: the heavy toll of today’s job market on even elite executives
• Why AI can’t develop and deploy a viable job search strategy

1. What market forces are impacting executive job seekers?
2. How has AI impacted the executive job market?
3. How many executives in the United States are currently seeking a new role?
4. What costly mistakes are even seasoned executives making in this hypercompetitive market, and how can they avoid them?
5. What headwinds should executive job seekers prepare for in 2026, and how do they move forward?