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We only recommend engaging multiple firms if you have an extremely challenging position to fill, such as a position that’s located in an undesirable location or if the required skills are very rare. Just because you engage multiple firms, let’s say three firms for example, does not guarantee you’ll receive three times the amount of candidates or three times the level of service. Why? Recruiting firms know or will find out when a search is called out to multiple firms, and they know their odds of filling the position are lowered significantly versus an exclusive search. If the firm has [...]

We work to serve as your long term, trusted advisor and strategic business partner, working to provide you with the most accomplished supply chain talent in the marketplace – the right talent, at the right place, at the right cost. Our broad portfolio of customizable supply chain recruiting services includes Retained Executive Search, Contingency Search and Contract Staffing.

After conducting an in-depth intake (kickoff) call with your hiring team and developing a robust search profile for your job opening, our recruiters develop a personalized phone interview assessment form using the core criteria you provided to us during the intake call. This criteria includes functional, technical, leadership and other criteria that you deem are critical for success. Each candidate is vetted thoroughly, and only the individuals that meet or exceed your requirements are presented to you. We will furnish you with copies of resumes as well as the completed phone interview assessment results for each candidate, so you’ll have [...]

We develop a unique candidate sourcing strategy for every search assignment that utilizes an omni-channel approach, allowing us to quickly identify and engage with a large group of potential candidates across a broad array of candidate sourcing channels. Sourcing channels include our extensive resume database that we’ve been building for many years, LinkedIn and other social networks, relationships we’ve built in the supply chain sector over the last 15+ years, paid contact databases, memberships with top supply chain associations such as ASCM (formerly APICS), and many more.

It’s rare that we advertise our job vacancies on paid job boards. For the vast majority of our searches, we rely on direct sourcing techniques using a wide array of candidate sourcing channels such as our resume database, for example.

Every search assignment is different and there are many factors that can impact the time to fill metric such as job location, compensation package, skill set demand, labor market competitiveness, company reputation, etc. With that said, for non-executive searches we strive to generate a slate of qualified candidates within two weeks of kicking off the search assignment. For executive-level searches such as Director-level up to C-level, it typically takes longer.

While every search is unique, we strive to narrow down the candidate pool to a final slate of 3 – 5 highly qualified candidates.

Yes, we will check candidate references and there is no additional cost for this service.

Yes, we offer a candidate replacement guarantee for all search assignments where we would replace any candidate that doesn’t work out to your satisfaction within the agreed-upon timeframe. There would be no additional cost for replacing a candidate and the candidate guarantee period is 120 days for most searches, with longer candidate periods for retained or executive searches. Contact us if you’d like to learn more about our candidate guarantee program.