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Jeff Hocking Office Managing Director
San Francisco

Jeff Hocking is Office Managing Director of Korn/Ferry International’s San Francisco office and leader of the Systems & Electronics Sector within the Firm’s Global Technology Market. With more than a decade of executive search experience, Mr. Hocking is responsible for leading executive searches for technology-based companies across all functions and regions.

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Hawlan Ng

Hawlan Ng Director, Assessment Services
San Francisco

Dr. Ng manages the Search Assessment practice for the San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Seattle offices of Korn/Ferry International. He is responsible for administering and interpreting our proprietary Search Assessment tool, as well as developing job and culture profiles used to benchmark candidates. His duties also include maximizing the firm's use of assessment on all executive searches.

Dr. Ng is a licensed clinical psychologist with over six years experience using assessment tools in a variety of settings. He has used his bilingual skills to work with Cantonese-speaking clients in both personal and professional development contexts. With a focus on cross-cultural psychology, Dr. Ng has administered clinical assessments to children and adults in therapeutic settings and has studied learning patterns in students at UC Berkeley. In addition, he has conducted neuropsychological testing in residential, hospital, and forensic settings.

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The ROI on People -- The 7 Vectors of Research

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By Jeff Hocking and Hawlan Ng

As outsourcing's global reach and implementation steadily expand, boosting the demand for outsourcing executives, outsourcing firms will need to consider candidates well outside the typical competitive landscape. Although the traditional companies remain a viable target for talent, new Korn/Ferry research suggests that key skills and capabilities can be acquired outside of the industry and then honed into productive outsourcing leadership competencies.

Entitled Tapping New Sources of Executive Outsourcing Talent, this paper seeks to equip outsourcing firms with a better understanding of what to look for, and where to look, when hiring outsourcing executives by comparing emerging scientific studies of the emotional profiles and thinking styles of successful outsourcing executives.

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