Whether you are exploring your next role, strengthening your leadership, or building better hiring and performance practices, start with a resource designed to provide practical guidance and immediate next steps.
Order a signed copy of Nicole Barbano’s book, The HIRE.
Part career guide, part hiring manifesto, The HIRE examines how people get hired, how organizations make decisions, and why the best conversations often get buried under clichés, keywords, and outdated assumptions.
For professionals, leaders, recruiters, and anyone trying to understand the hiring process from both sides of the table.
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The Art of the Offer Letter distills two decades of executive search experience into a practical guide for hiring leaders who want to improve offer acceptance and elevate the candidate experience.
Built on the strategies behind a 98% offer acceptance rate within 24 hours—without a counteroffer—this field guide gives hiring managers, HR leaders, and executives a proven framework for creating offer letters that build confidence, reduce negotiation, and accelerate hiring decisions.
Inside, you'll learn how to present compensation with clarity, eliminate common points of friction, communicate expectations upfront, and position your organization at a higher professional standard—so candidates are prepared to say "yes" the first time.
A job search is not a transaction — what walks into the interview is a person carrying everything they haven't made peace with. In this perspective guide, Nicole Barbano examines how unresolved endings — from this role or one five years ago — quietly shape how we present and decide, with five questions to ask yourself and five ways to move forward, including forgiveness, extreme ownership, and getting your physical environment in order. This is one of the most popular downloads and meaningful tool for professionals who are wondering “why am I not getting the offer.”
In an AI era when resumes can be generated in seconds and rehearsed answers can be anticipated before you ask the question, the work sample is one of the few signals left that cannot be faked. In this employer worksheet, former retained search consultant turned executive coach Nicole Barbano traces the practice from the post-WWII maturity of the SHREK firms to the modern interview, and offers a decision table for when to assign homework, seven rules for doing it right — including NDAs, flat-fee compensation, and an explicit AI policy — and a one-page checklist to run every assignment through before you send it. This is a strong perspective for the hiring manager and for the executive wondering, “why am I getting homework to interview?”
An executive essay on performative leadership—how organizations came to reward the appearance of leading over leadership itself. Traces the script from Victorian propriety to the age of visibility, with a framework to name, claim, and pivot from it.
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