CareerBuilder wasn’t in outstanding financial standing even prior to the Apollo acquisition, but at least the previous executives treated you like a human being. Most of the current Executive team, aside from a couple who are wonderful, is vile and severely lack Emotional Intelligence.
The CEO, Irina Novoselsky, has no business in this role. She burns through sales reps with unrealistic goals to instill fear & drudgery (that she calls “grit”) because she only knows how to be an absolute authoritarian, rather than a motivational leader. She’s run this company, and more importantly, the livelihood of SO many people, straight into the ground through poor decisions and complete lack of care or compassion for the people who truly keep the company alive (using what limited tools are available to them).
Additionally, she chose not to share the results of the annual company survey at the beginning of the year (aside from stating the obvious “you all LOVE each other”) because they were a direct reflection of her incompetence and lack of leadership ability. It was a cowardly, repugnant move not to address it. Matt Ferguson, the former CEO, ALWAYS shared the good but focused on the bad with transparency.
The President, Sasha Yablonovsky, is pitiful. Judging by her horrid treatment of people, it’s clear she doesn’t want the responsibility of this job. She just wants the high title & authority that she thinks comes with it. She’s ruthless and callous, clueless as to how to engage with her own employees, and completely in the dark when it comes to her duties as President.
HOWEVER, I do think that if she worked under a compassionate, experienced, and inspiring CEO she’d be WAY different. I think her good side would shine through and her rare bursts of enthusiasm would turn into a real force of inspiration.
But together, under these circumstances, they’ve absolutely failed. They failed themselves, they failed the company, and most importantly, they failed the employees.
