Headhunters Toronto

Our Recruitment Process

At Keller, we are committed to helping our client businesses adapt and thrive in their respective industries. Our team begins by gaining a thorough understanding of your business, its goals, needs, and culture. We work closely with the company’s management team to identify the requirements of the open role, the challenges that may come with it, and their expectations of potential candidates. During this meeting, we create a candidate profile that includes the company’s desired experience, qualifications, work ethic, personality type, and management style for prospective new employees.

This provides our recruiters with valuable insights that we use to establish the search parameters.

Once our team has gained a deep understanding of your client needs, we use the established search parameters to look for and identify highly-skilled, executive talent that meet (or even exceed) the hiring requirements.

All qualifying professionals are then assessed and screened thoroughly. The process includes extensive professional and criminal background checks, verifying references, and advanced psychometric testing to determine candidates’ fit for the role and company culture. Those who pass the screening process are shortlisted and provided to our clients for final interviews.

The final hiring decision lies with our clients.

Our Expertise As Top Toronto Recruiters

Our search firm is home to a passionate group of experts with many years of hands-on headhunting and executive search experience. Through the years, each recruiter in our team has gained extensive expertise, technical industry knowledge, and a vast specialized skill set. They also boast ample academic and professional qualifications.

At Keller, we understand the importance of continuous learning. As such, our team aims to stay updated on the latest findings, technological advancements, and developments in the field of recruitment. We also aim to stay abreast of shifts in market dynamics in order to provide our clientele with the very best executive recruitment solutions.

Our Industries

At Keller, we focus on filling open roles for companies across various industries in Toronto, such as:

• Financial Services
• Technology & Innovation
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Renewable Energy & Clean Technology
• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing & Construction
• Retail & E-commerce
• Real Estate
• Investment
• Professional Services (e.g., legal, consulting)
• Education & EdTech
• Tourism & Hospitality
• Transportation & Logistics
• Media
• Arts & Entertainment
• Food and Beverage Industry

Our Placements

Our team of professional headhunters specializes in sourcing candidates for both temporary and permanent executive-level and senior-level positions in Toronto. Some of the executive positions we find top-notch talent for include (but aren’t limited to):

• C-Suite (CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO, CMO, CHRO, etc.)
• VP of Sales
• VP of Business Development
• Director of Engineering
• Director of Product Management
• Senior Legal Executive
• Senior Medical Director (for Healthcare and Life Sciences)
• Head of Supply Chain/Logistics
• Director of Cybersecurity

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Why Our Executive Recruitment Agency Uses A Tailored Approach

Keller’s tailored approach has been influenced and shaped, over the years, by the first-hand experience of our recruiters. While there have been many, one experience is particularly memorable for the transformative effect it has had on our methodology.

When Keller first began serving organizations from our Toronto office, we had a small client base with little variation. As a result, we made use of a generic headhunting approach that yielded satisfactory results, and our clients were happy with their placed candidates.

However, these small successes led to growth, and we were approached by larger organizations in the sector. This included a great partner that needed our team to recruit a new executive. Bolstered by the success we had achieved with our cookie-cutter approach until that point, we made use of the same methodology for this project.

To our surprise and dismay, the candidates we selected did not live up to the organization’s standards. While they had the correct qualifications on paper, their management styles did not align with the existing team.

While this was not an easy experience, challenges such as these have helped Keller grow. This experience taught our team the many limitations of using a standardized approach for every client, regardless of their location or practice areas. It showed us how important it is to, instead, offer a search strategy tailored to the unique needs of each business we serve.

Since then, we’ve focused much of our time on perfecting our tailored approach to ensure that each company we serve is matched with the perfect person for their vacancy. Keller’s approach and the resulting success have had a significant effect on the industry, inspiring other recruitment agencies to adopt similar strategies. As a result, Keller has contributed to a better global understanding of executive search as a whole, and our name has become synonymous with high-quality recruitment.

Keller’s Guarantee

While we go to great lengths to ensure great outcomes for our clientele, we acknowledge that circumstances can change and no approach can ever be 100% successful. We are confident in the success our customized approach has achieved, but we also provide our clientele with this added assurance:

Should any candidate we place fail to meet expectations or performs poorly in their new role, Keller will provide a more suitable replacement at no additional cost. However, keep in mind that this guarantee is only valid for the first 90 days after hiring the new recruit.

Why Choose Keller As Your Go-To Toronto Headhunters?

When you partner with Keller for executive recruitment (Toronto), you are positioning your company advantageously at the forefront of industry innovation and leadership excellence. Our years of experience in the field of executive search, our access to an extensive network of industry professionals through our recognized NPAworldwide membership, and our meticulous screening process allow us to ensure a rich selection of candidate profiles that match your strategic vision.

In addition to our expertise, we are committed to diversity and inclusion in the search process. Our recruiting agency in Toronto recognizes the substantial value and perspective that varied cultural, educational, and experiential backgrounds contribute to the growth and success of a business. For this reason, we recommend candidates based solely on their suitability for a role and the company’s hiring needs, with no bias against their age, race, gender, religion, or preferences.

Additionally, it is part of our mission to safeguard sensitive candidate and client information. We do so by adhering strictly to industry standards for user data protection and confidentiality. Our team also makes use of responsible and ethical practices in our searches.

Keller’s team is trained to respond to all inquiries, critiques, questions, and comments with the utmost respect. We aim to keep communication with our clientele as constructive as possible, and value feedback as we use it to continually improve our offerings and our customer service.

Contact Keller today to become one of our partners and benefit from our deep knowledge and expertise in recruitment.