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Strategic talent acquisition for the leadership, technical, and specialized roles that define your organization’s next era of growth

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A DIFFERENT PROBLEM

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Where recruiting fails for mission-critical roles

The executives, functional leaders, and technical experts that organizations need most don't engage with conventional recruiting. They're already employed, they ignore average recruiters, and they don’t respond to scripted messages. And if asked about making a move, they say, "No - not interested."

These roles share common traits: scarce or passive talent, high impact with low error tolerance, and real costs when hiring goes wrong or takes too long.

If you can't break through the market noise, capture imagination, and get the attention of top performers, hiring becomes costly and slow – and you may never attain consistent access to the best talent.

A DIFFERENT APPROACH

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What it takes to reach exceptional talent

For the best professionals, change isn't viewed as opportunity – it's exposure. Reputation, identity, stability, momentum – all of it at risk.

That’s why the manner in which you approach them determines how many will consider your opportunity and choose to engage in your process. We've spent 28 years building systems that master this approach, giving our clients access to the leaders and specialists they need.

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650+ client partnerships. 2,000+ searches. From Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 enterprises

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IMPACT IN AEROSPACE

Saving flagship E350 program with 24 critical engineering hires in 90 days for BE Aerospace

IMPACT IN PHARMACEUTICALS

Scaling critical research hiring across four business units and saving $360,000 in fees for Regeneron

IMPACT IN STARTUPS

Recruited the specific Food Scientist who was the CTO’s top choice for the role at startup Zero Acre Farms

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“I’ve worked with “traditional” recruitment companies throughout my career but not with this type of engagement. Inhouse Assist has put together an extremely skilled group of recruiters who take the time to get to know the culture of the company, the individuals that they work with, and the open positions.”

Donna Lodato, Former CEO at Spark Pediatrics*

*Now company board member and a private equity partner

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“Inhouse Assist is part of our team. I don't see them as an outside agency but more of an extension of our team that provides expertise that is extremely valuable, not only to me but to our hiring managers as well. I love that Inhouse doesn't push candidates on us, but acts as an advocate for our hiring managers.”

Mary Blair, Talent Acquisition Manager at Stanford Children's Health*

*Now retired

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“I was competing for key talent against companies with much larger resources. We needed a differentiator. Inhouse Assist’s methodology for capturing the culture and getting it articulated, and leveraging that language in recruiting is better than anyone else.”

Robert Markovic, Global Talent Acquisition Leader at B/E Aerospace*

*Acquired by Rockwell Collins (now part of Raytheon Technologies)

NOT RECRUITMENT-AS-USUAL

Strategic partnership for mission-critical hiring

We provide retained search, project-based RPO, and fractional talent services for executive leadership and highly specialized roles where traditional recruiting methods fail – operating as a strategic partner, not a vendor, in scarce talent markets, high-stakes roles, and situations where mis-hire or delay carries real cost. We work across industries where specialized talent is hardest to find:

HEALTHCARE &
HEALTH SYSTEMS

FINANCE &
ACCOUNTING

MANUFACTURING & AEROSPACE

TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE

BIOSCIENCE & PHARMACEUTICALS

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

Add the expertise your most important roles demand.

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