President - Executive Search

1 month ago


Norwalk, United States APA Search, Inc. Full time

Position: President – Executive Search

APA Search is experiencing significant growth and is seeking a highly polished, experienced recruiting professional to succeed our current President, who will be retiring in 2025.

The ideal candidate will have experience in a retained executive search environment, placing VP to “C” level executives. They should have experience providing clients with very high levels of support and service, which currently distinguishes APA from other recruiting firms.

APA Search is a 36-year-old retained executive search firm specializing in transportation and industrial executive placement. Many of our clients have been with us for over 25 years and see us as more of an extension of their own executive team rather than an outsourced solution. Our staff of 7 includes 6 full-time recruiters with an average tenure of 15 years and 1 junior recruiter/researcher.


Equity Opportunity Available


The individual we seek is highly motivated and highly collaborative. Their responsibilities will include:

  1. Hiring, training, and motivating qualified recruiters.
  2. As necessary, providing the recruiters with coaching during the search process.
  3. Helping recruiters develop viable search strategies.
  4. Developing and executing a marketing plan and marketing tools to maintain a continuous pipeline of search assignments.
  5. Maintaining close relationships with all key accounts.
  6. Traveling as necessary to interview candidates and consult with clients (5%-10% travel)
  7. Managing all business vendors and related expenses – i.e. data contracts with LinkedIn, telephone vendor, accounting firm, bank personnel, ADP.
  8. Manage internal bookkeeper, bi-weekly payroll.
  9. Maintaining/updating/refreshing website.
  10. Attending relevant industry trade shows.
  11. Occasional public speaking at industry events.
  12. Writing industry and HR related articles.


If you have these qualifications and have an interest in learning more about this opportunity, please contact me in confidence. Howard Kesten, President APA search, Inc. hkesten@apasearch.com.



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