Excellence In Search, Inc.

Excellence In Search, Inc. is a talent acquisition and professional staffing firm started in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1993. Its owners set it up to act as an adviser in hiring rather than a sales-driven agency, and it draws on industrial and organisational psychology to match people to roles. The firm reports that 85% of the people it has placed are still with the employer that hired them.

What Excellence In Search, Inc. offers

• Contingency and retained search — finding candidates for client roles on either basis.
• Contract recruiting — recruiters working on a client's hiring for a set period.
• Staffing management — managing a client's staffing needs.
• Resume clearinghouse — handling incoming CVs on behalf of employers.
• Vendor management — overseeing a client's staffing suppliers.

Who it works with

It works with client companies that want to improve their hiring and with candidates seeking placements, and says it has helped hundreds of companies since it began.

Key facts

• Based in: Cleveland, Ohio
• Founded: 1993
• Interview ratio: about two interviews per hire, against a national average of six
• Partner: Exodus Integrity Services Inc