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Arbutus Search Group

Arbutus Search Group is a Vancouver, BC–based recruitment firm specializing in customer-centric recruitment and search services across Engineering & Construction, Manufacturing & Operations, Corporate & Administration, and Accounting & Finance functions. Founded and led by CEO Joel Peterson, the firm partners with growth-minded organizations to deliver retained and exclusive searches, flexible monthly retainer support, and its Arbutus Pipeline Builder solution that rapidly identifies, screens, and presents diverse, qualified talent. Leveraging advanced research and sourcing technology, Arbutus builds targeted pipelines in under 48 hours, helping employers move from requisition to interview faster while maintaining rigorous standards for technical capability, cultural fit, and long-term success. The team routinely fills roles spanning structural, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering; project management; CAD/BIM; automation, control systems, robotics, and instrumentation; plant and process engineering; quality; operations leadership; and corporate disciplines including accounting, financial analysis, HR, marketing, legal, and sales. Arbutus serves clients in key sectors such as biotech, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and health food; natural resources, renewable energy, and forestry; commercial, institutional, and residential high-rise construction; and municipalities and Indigenous governments, with active searches across Canada and the United States. Its retained and exclusive approach includes detailed role discovery, market mapping, headhunting, structured screening, and candidate experience management, supported by transparent communication and data-driven updates that keep both clients and candidates informed. Deep commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging is integral to the firm’s model; Arbutus donates $20,000 annually to support IBPOC students at the University of British Columbia and champions equitable hiring practices throughout each search. With a proven track record of quality placements and sustained candidate success, Arbutus operates as an extension of internal talent teams, providing scalable recruitment capacity and measurable outcomes aligned to each organization’s goals.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOConstructionIndustrial AutomationMiningEngineeringIndustrial & ManufacturingFinance & Accounting

HQVancouver, Canada

Level M Recruiting Group

Level M Recruiting Group is a boutique, business‑savvy recruiting partner that connects top talent with leading organizations across the United States, with particular depth in Commercial Real Estate and Construction, Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Retail & Hospitality, Manufacturing, Legal, and Information Technology. Built on more than two decades of entrepreneurship and hands‑on team‑building experience, the firm approaches every search with a deep understanding of how hiring decisions impact business outcomes, prioritizing long‑term value creation and cultural alignment over short‑term fixes. Known for its rapid response, trust, and flexibility—including availability beyond standard business hours—Level M leverages strong national networks and market insight to deliver curated shortlists quickly, helping clients reduce time‑to‑hire while improving retention. The team invests upfront to learn each client’s organization, role requirements, and competitive landscape, tailoring search strategies by market and function to attract motivated, high‑caliber professionals. Its methodology blends targeted outreach, rigorous screening, and technology‑enabled process management to ensure only superior talent reaches interview stages, resulting in smoother hiring cycles and stronger team performance. Level M supports a spectrum of needs from key individual contributor placements to leadership and executive mandates, while providing candidates with discreet, well‑informed guidance throughout the hiring process. Clients consistently view the firm as a true partner that integrates seamlessly with internal teams, shortens search timelines, and upgrades overall hiring quality, especially in competitive or hard‑to‑reach markets. Whether a portfolio company expanding nationally, a commercial real estate owner‑operator scaling operations, a bank or legal practice seeking specialized expertise, a manufacturer adding operational leadership, or an IT group building out core capability, Level M Recruiting Group brings market access, diligence, and a results‑driven approach that delivers lasting talent solutions.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingCommercial Real EstateConstructionBankingTechnology & DigitalFinance & AccountingLegal & Compliance

HQUnited States

Bauer Partners

Bauer Partners is a boutique recruitment and global business consulting firm that helps organizations build great teams, strengthen culture, and accelerate growth through a blend of highly specialized talent acquisition and practical, execution-focused advisory services. Founded and led by seasoned operators, the firm brings over 15 years of executive recruiting and HR management expertise alongside more than 30 years of C‑suite leadership in global B2B sales, channel development, forecasting, marketing, product innovation, and strategic planning. On the recruiting side, Bauer Partners specializes in hard‑to‑fill and high‑impact roles with a particular focus on Accounting, Finance, Tax, Audit, and M&A, matching uniquely qualified professionals to opportunities that align with each client’s culture and long‑term goals; for candidates, the firm acts as a career‑long partner and advocate. Complementing its search capabilities, Bauer Partners delivers end‑to‑end business consulting that includes strategic business evaluation and planning, targeted/strategic account acquisition and retention processes, global sales channel and distribution expansion, bottom‑up forecasting methodologies, CRM and KPI optimization to surface the right leading and lagging indicators, and the alignment of sales, marketing, and product strategies (including AI‑supported account‑based marketing tools and voice‑of‑customer/product validation programs). With direct experience working across 35+ countries, the team leverages a global network of partners, distributors, and manufacturers’ representatives to support market entry, channel scale, and revenue growth for both multinationals and SMBs. Bauer Partners’ differentiated model emphasizes cultural fit, sustainable performance, and measurable ROI, providing best‑in‑class templates, tools, and execution frameworks that clients can adopt immediately. In addition, the firm offers professional and personal coaching grounded in a proprietary Life Matrix system to help leaders design their best life and achieve both professional and personal goals. Whether engaging for executive search, permanent recruitment, or discrete project‑based consulting, Bauer Partners delivers pragmatic solutions that move the needle.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsManagement ConsultingAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human ResourcesFinance & AccountingSenior ExecutivesSales & Business Development

HQUnited States

BigFish Executive Search

BigFish Executive Search is a boutique, Vancouver, BC-based firm dedicated to landing exceptional leaders for organizations that need impact at the top, focusing on CEOs and Executive Directors, senior leadership roles across the C-suite, and Board Chairs and Directors. Founded and led by President & Founder Wendy Melvin, the firm brings a powerful combination of network, expertise, and tenacity to every engagement, emphasizing values-driven leadership where integrity, communication, empathy, decisiveness, adaptability, and consistency are paramount. BigFish tailors each search rather than applying a one-size-fits-all process, investing the time to understand each client’s strategy, culture, and long-term goals. Its approach spans defining role requirements and the ideal candidate profile, building a research-led search strategy, developing long lists, assessing and engaging candidates, producing evidence-based shortlists with detailed assessments, guiding structured interviews and selection, and supporting references, negotiations, and onboarding as needed, followed by post-placement check-ins for continuous improvement. The firm is resolutely contemporary, affordable, and collaborative—positioning itself as a fast, nimble, and reliable partner that protects clients from the “choppy waters” of recruitment while delivering exceptional value. BigFish is also committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, incorporating recruiting practices that minimize bias, broaden access, and ensure candidates are holistically considered, resulting in slates that reflect varied backgrounds, cultures, and geographies. By connecting people with purpose through transparency and open communication, BigFish helps boards and executives make high-stakes leadership decisions with confidence, elevating organizational performance and culture. Whether the mandate is to appoint a transformational CEO, strengthen a C-suite with leaders who keep it strategic, or build a capable, diverse board that provides exemplary oversight, BigFish Executive Search leaves nothing to chance and aligns every step of the search to the outcomes that matter most.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOAll industriesSenior ExecutivesFinance & AccountingTechnology & Digital

HQVancouver, Canada

C-Suite Healthcare

C-Suite Healthcare Innovations (CHI) is a boutique advisory firm that partners with innovative healthcare service and technology companies and the hospitals and health systems they serve to accelerate commercialization and meaningful adoption of new solutions. Drawing on a national network of C-suite healthcare executive decision makers spanning 100+ hospitals and healthcare systems across the United States, CHI connects promising offerings to the right stakeholders, shortens sales cycles, and helps clients structure deals that deliver measurable clinical and operational value. Its bench of key opinion leaders brings more than 200 years of combined experience leading prominent provider organizations, giving CHI the real-world perspective to vet products and services, stress-test value propositions, and guide market entry strategies with credibility at the executive level. The firm’s core services include national network access and strategic introductions, organizational development, team building and culture change, and leadership development and mentoring, ensuring client teams are aligned, capable, and ready to scale. CHI’s approach is pragmatic and outcomes-focused, combining executive-level insight with hands-on support to refine use cases, design pilots, align governance, and translate clinical and financial benefits into compelling business cases for provider organizations. While commercialization and organizational effectiveness are central, CHI also leverages its extensive relationships for selective executive leadership advisory and introductions when growth requires new capabilities, always with an emphasis on fit, impact, and long-term success. By uniting healthcare operators, innovators, and decision makers around clear value, CHI helps clients earn trust, achieve adoption, and improve patient care through breakthrough solutions.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsPermanent RecruitmentHealthcare AdministrationMedical DevicesSoftware DevelopmentSenior ExecutivesHealthcare & Life SciencesSales & Business Development

HQUnited States

SJG Talent

SJG Talent is a boutique staffing and recruiting partner dedicated to building meaningful connections between exceptional talent and forward-thinking organizations, leading with heart and purpose to help businesses grow, innovate, and thrive. Operating at the intersection of high-touch relationship management and practical talent acquisition strategy, the firm specializes in executive search for critical leadership roles, permanent recruitment across white-collar disciplines, and project-based solutions that elevate in-house hiring capabilities. Grounded in a commitment to diversity, equity, and collaborative team building, SJG Talent brings a values-led, data-informed approach to every engagement, aligning role requirements, culture, and business outcomes to deliver long-term impact. Beyond day-to-day hiring, the consultancy supports clients with scoped projects such as assessing and improving talent acquisition processes, optimizing candidate experience, designing interview frameworks, and building business cases for modern applicant tracking systems and related TA technology, including stakeholder alignment, vendor evaluation, ROI modeling, and change management. Clients value the firm’s transparent communication, thoughtful market insight, and inclusive sourcing strategies that expand access to capable, underrepresented talent while protecting quality and speed. Whether partnering with founders making their first strategic hire or established companies evolving their people strategy, SJG Talent provides a flexible model that scales to the need: retained or priority executive searches, targeted permanent placements, or defined projects that strengthen the internal TA function. With a focus on measurable outcomes—quality of hire, time to fill, hiring manager satisfaction, and retention—the firm blends practical recruiting execution with advisory support so organizations can hire confidently, build resilient teams, and sustain stronger performance over time. The result is a modern, human-centered recruiting experience that treats candidates and clients as long-term partners and turns hiring into a competitive advantage.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHuman ResourcesManagement ConsultingProject ManagementHuman ResourcesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQUnited States

Maxwell-Shepherd

Maxwell-Shepherd is a recruiting firm dedicated to the fast-growing energy services economy, connecting managers and career-minded professionals across HVAC, building automation, and the broader green building ecosystem. Leveraging a deep, long-standing network that spans thousands of key decision-makers and proven individual contributors, the firm conducts discreet, targeted searches that prioritize quality, fit, and long-term impact. Its team specializes in approaching and engaging high-caliber passive talent—ninety percent of the professionals they represent are currently employed—ensuring clients access candidates motivated by challenge and contribution rather than circumstance. With an intimate understanding of hiring trends and which companies are doing what, Maxwell-Shepherd guides both employers and candidates through each step, providing candid market insight, proactive communication, and 24/7 availability so no one wonders where they stand in the process. Over the last decade the firm has played a part in more than a thousand successful placements across energy efficiency, controls, and building performance roles, from technical engineering and project leadership to sales, operations, and executive management. Confidentiality is central to its methodology: searches for hiring authorities are conducted under strict protocols to protect competitive strategy, and conversations with employed professionals are handled with the utmost discretion. Combining industry fluency with a cost-effective approach and a strong success ratio, Maxwell-Shepherd offers a simple, disciplined search process that carefully identifies, attracts, and secures the most qualified and motivated candidates for each unique opportunity. Whether an organization needs to energize its talent bench or a professional is ready for the next stage in a mission-driven career, Maxwell-Shepherd brings focus, professionalism, and results to recruiting in energy services and the built environment.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRenewable EnergyIndustrial AutomationConstructionEngineeringSales & Business DevelopmentSenior Executives

HQUnited States

GHR Healthcare

GHR Healthcare is a nationwide, tech-enabled healthcare staffing and workforce solutions partner with more than 30 years of experience connecting specialized talent and healthcare organizations across all 50 states. Backed by industry-leading experts and Joint Commission Healthcare Staffing Services (HCSS) certification, GHR delivers a comprehensive suite of services spanning nurse staffing, allied health, advanced practice, physician recruitment, revenue cycle management, healthcare IT, and healthcare leadership, with an additional focus through its GHR Education brand. For employers, the firm offers scalable staffing programs, direct hire and executive search, consulting services, and a mature Managed Service Provider (MSP) solution that leverages a network of over 200 affiliate vendors while handling the end-to-end process from credentialing to billing to ensure quality, compliance, and speed. For clinicians and professionals, GHR provides access to a broad range of roles and work arrangements, supported by 24-hour customer service, on-call expertise, and technology that matches opportunities to individual skills and preferences. The company’s national footprint and deep market relationships enable rapid fulfillment in hard-to-fill disciplines, while integrated analytics help clients optimize labor strategies and improve patient care outcomes. With referrals as a top source of applications, GHR emphasizes transparent guidance and long-term fit, demonstrated by candid recruiter coaching and sustained candidate support throughout assignments and transitions. Its GHR Live mobile app further streamlines job discovery, profile management, and engagement, reinforcing a fully integrated experience for both job seekers and hiring teams. Combining scale with specialization, and people-first service with data-driven insights, GHR Healthcare consistently powers positive outcomes for hospitals, health systems, physician groups, ambulatory and post-acute providers, and healthcare-adjacent functions such as revenue cycle and technology operations.

MSPContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansHealthcare AdministrationHealthcare & Life SciencesTechnology & DigitalSenior Executives

HQBlue Bell, United States

Conner International

Conner International is a boutique recruitment and talent advisory firm dedicated to Building People, Building Companies, Building Communities, serving employers and professionals with a high-touch, values-led approach. Founded by Chrissy Conner, a successful professional recruiter, certified leadership coach, speaker, trainer, and published author, the firm brings more than two decades of leadership and recruiting experience across healthcare, transportation, and energy. Chrissy has advised corporate leadership and C-level executives and consulted for organizations including Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, as well as collaborating alongside teams from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, and Alvarez & Marsal. Recognized as an expert in transportation and energy hiring, she has been called to testify on industry hiring trends and compensation. Through Conner International, LLC, she continues to deliver executive search and permanent recruitment while providing workforce consulting and strategic talent guidance tailored to current openings and future needs. The firm’s candidate-first ethos invites professionals to submit resumes and discuss career goals, while employers engage Conner International to improve hiring outcomes through precise search, clear communication, and a commitment to long-term fit. Chrissy’s industry engagement includes membership in the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA), League of Railway Women (LRW), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the Forbes Coaching Council. Beyond business, she contributes to community causes including the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women, World Vision, and breast cancer awareness initiatives, reflecting the company’s belief in changing the planet “one world at a time.” Based in Oklahoma City and serving clients nationally, Conner International aligns purpose, performance, and people to build durable teams and meaningful careers, offering an approachable partner for employers with specialized or executive hiring needs and for candidates seeking thoughtful guidance at pivotal career moments.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)RailroadPublic TransitSenior ExecutivesHealthcare & Life SciencesTransportation & Logistics

HQUnited States

Claypoole Search

Claypoole Search is a premier executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of legal and compliance professionals for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and other alternative asset managers, including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, family offices, and crypto/DeFi and tech-focused managers. Founded by David Claypoole—who brings nearly 40 years of experience at the intersection of law and asset management and has made hundreds of successful placements—the firm is distinguished by credibility, capability, and confidentiality. Claypoole leads senior mandates for General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Associate General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer while the team also supports hiring from Legal Assistant upward, ensuring clients can build or scale entire L&C departments. With a deep, cultivated network of top law firm partners, general counsels, and C-level HR leaders, Claypoole Search engages exceptional, often passive candidates from the most relevant firms and practices, emphasizing long-term fit and retention. The firm’s tight focus on investment management L&C and its close tracking of regulatory developments underpin advisory strength in organizational design, best practices, and market compensation; its longstanding Legal & Compliance Compensation Survey—available only to participants and clients—is widely cited as a trusted benchmark. While most active across the East and West Coasts of the United States, Claypoole Search delivers global coverage through a curated affiliate network in major financial hubs such as London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond, providing clients a single, discreet point of accountability for international searches. Reflecting its values, the firm donates a portion of annual net profits to organizations that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, notably supporting Prep for Prep, and co-founded LimPiaR to improve coastal communities in Puerto Rico. Formerly known as Parks Legal Placement, Claypoole Search is the go-to partner for elite managers seeking to attract, structure, and retain high-performing in-house legal and compliance teams, and for AmLaw 100-trained, high-caliber attorneys and compliance leaders pursuing career-defining opportunities.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOInvestment ManagementLegalFinTechLegal & ComplianceSenior Executives

HQUnited States

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