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Palm Coast Council narrows city manager search to a smaller semifinalist pool, asks recruiter to keep recruiting
Summary
After a presentation from SGR recruiter Doug Thomas, the Palm Coast City Council agreed to advance a subset of applicants for semifinalist review and to continue outreach to expand the candidate pool, citing concerns about candidate turnover and controversial departures in some résumés.
Palm Coast City Council on not specified heard a presentation from SGR recruiter Doug Thomas on the city manager recruitment and agreed to move a smaller group of applicants forward for semifinalist review while the recruiter continues marketing the position.
The move followed a detailed briefing from Thomas, who told the council the search drew roughly 38 initial applicants and about 35 active candidates at the time of the presentation. Thomas said the campaign reached candidates nationwide and that the next steps would be to ask semifinalists to complete a written questionnaire and prerecorded video responses so the council could assess experience and address any items that appear in media or background searches. "All you're doing is narrowing the pool down," Thomas said, explaining the process and stressing that deeper vetting occurs at the semifinalist and finalist stages.
The council said it was not…
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