Recruiting Resources
Hiring PE Portfolio Company Executives: Leadership on the Hold-Cycle Clock
Portfolio executive hiring is ordinary hiring with the clock turned up. The hold-cycle tempo, the three profiles sponsors pay for, the MIP conversation, and why these searches reward speed.
The Toronto VP Sales Search Guide: Hiring Sales Leadership That Survives Year Two
Half of VP Sales hires fail by year two. The four jobs behind the title, Toronto’s bank-and-telco gravity well, CAD comp bands with the US premium, and interviewing past the charisma.
The NYC CFO Search Guide: Hiring Financial Leadership in the World’s Deepest Market
NYC’s CFO market is six markets wearing one title. The segments, 2026 comp bands, sponsor-network dynamics, and the search mechanics that work in the world’s deepest finance talent pool.
Choosing a Technical Recruiting Model: Contingency, Retained, or Subscription
The technical series finale: contingency, retained, or per-seat subscription — the decision math for scarce single roles versus team builds, and what to demand from any recruiting partner.
Hiring Engineering Leadership: What Actually Predicts Success from Director to VP
A bad VP Engineering hire costs a year. Stage-matching, org-design assessment, references as the real interview, and why leadership searches are where retained search earns its keep.
Contract vs. Permanent Technical Hiring: The Real Math and the Four-Question Framework
Contract or permanent? The loaded cost math, where each model actually wins, the misclassification traps in the US and Canada, and a four-question decision framework.
Running a Confidential Technical Search: Replacing, Building, and Hiring Without a Leak
Replacing a leader still in seat, hiring ahead of an announcement, transaction-adjacent roles — why ordinary search mechanics leak and the confidential-search design that protects everyone.
Technical Interview Design for 2026: What AI Broke and What Still Works
AI broke the take-home and the algorithm screen. The three-round loop that still works, how to calibrate interviewers as sellers, and the one metric that predicts offer acceptance.
The Quiet Scarcity: Hiring Enterprise .NET and Java Engineers in 2026
Enterprise .NET and Java talent is retiring faster than it renews while modernization demand rises. The bilingual-engineer profile, where the pool sits, and how to recruit people who never job-hop.
Hiring Data Engineers in 2026: Three Roles Hiding Behind One Title
Data engineering split into three roles while most JDs still describe one. The AI-era stakes, résumé screens for a keyword-saturated market, and the three-part interview that finds real operators.
Hiring Software Engineers in Toronto: The 2026 Market Guide
North America’s third-largest tech market has a split personality: deep talent, drained top decile. CAD comp bands, the US-remote competition, where talent clusters, and how to win in the GTA.
The Player-Coach Engineering Manager: Hiring the Profile Everyone Wants and Few Can Find
Every scale-up wants an EM who leads and still ships. Why the player-coach profile is structurally rare, when the ask is self-defeating, and the four interview probes that find the real ones.
