Chris Murdock is the Co-Founder and Senior Partner of IQTalent Partners. Chris has over 18 years of executive recruiting experience and leads search execution and client relationships along with supporting searches across the firm. Prior to Founding IQTalent Partners, Chris was a Sourcer with Yahoo!’s internal Executive Recruiting team in the corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California. Previous to Yahoo!, Chris was an Associate in the Menlo Park, California office of with Heidrick & Struggles, where he recruited for software, hardware, professional services, and semiconductor clients. Before Heidrick & Struggles, Chris worked in the Retail Practice of TMP Worldwide in Atlanta, Georgia. While with TMP Worldwide, he worked on CEO, General Merchandise Manager, and various VP and Buyer level searches. Chris earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Chris’s Uncle David
When business started difficulties overcame:
“In order to start the business I had to leave Yahoo, they just happened to make the decision for me. I had to get out of my comfort zone. And ultimately realising that we could have started IQ talent sooner it bothers me from time to time. Because I did get comfortable, I didn’t listen to the people that told me that the way that I think about recruiting and sourcing was unique. I didn’t understand it at the time so maybe I could have made that transition to being an entrepreneur sooner. But ultimately Yahoo had to make that decision for me.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Business Pig Hardcover Book by Andrea ZuillFavourite Quote:
“ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy
Recommended Online Resources:
- TechCrunch – is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. It reports on the business of tech, tech news, analysis of emerging trends in tech, and profiling of new tech businesses and products.
- Yahoo News – Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN, BBC News, etc. In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the first “most-emailed” page on the web.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“take a chance and surround yourself with the people that are going to be supportive of that risk”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Murdock:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.” Scott Stabile
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Murdock:
- “we had to learn all of these things, we had to make all of these mistakes otherwise I don’t know if we would have got to the model we are at now… because we’ve made those mistakes it’s made us better and I don’t think could have made them sooner or learned from them soon”
- “secret to my success is surrounding myself with people who make me better and making sure that they know how much they mean to me”
- “never give up, always keep going”
- “if we do not adapt to change we stagnate and if we stagnate we die. And so we have to adapt to change, we have to alter the way we are thinking all of the time. And that is part of that kaizen approach – continuous improvement. Even if something is going well finding something that we can do better. Because if we don’t we will stagnate.”
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