CFO executive search firm Denver, Colorado? Luke joined Spectrum Search Partners as a Recruiting Director in 2018. He brings over a decade of search industry experience, with considerable expertise in cybersecurity, healthcare, and technology. He’s acquired hands-on external and internal recruiting experience having worked in retained, contingent, and corporate search environments, where he filled executive and leadership roles in the following functional areas: Accounting and Finance, IT, Sales and Marketing, and Supply Chain. After graduating college from the University of Missouri with Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Luke joined an IT Staffing firm headquartered in St. Louis (his hometown) named Technology Partners, where he cut his teeth in the contingent search world. He then transitioned to DHR International, the 5th largest Retained Executive Search Firm in the United States, where he supported an array of Fortune 500 and privately-held companies. A promotion at DHR brought him to Denver, where he eventually started his own retained search firm named Kaleo, where he focused on the digital healthcare domain. Luke’s entrepreneurial DNA allows him to relate very easily to Spectrum’s customer base.

While navigating our new normal, you and your company will invariably want to explore new strategies to support your hiring process. We’ve pulled together a list of a few of our favorite out-of-the-box recruiting tactics. Focus on Content Creation- during this time, you may find yourself with a more flexible schedule. Commit to creating as much original content as you can, and share, share, share it! Focusing on content about recruiting and hiring, interview tips, and related topics will be especially effective.

Founded in 2009, Spectrum fills a critical void in the marketplace: delivering access to world class talent to entrepreneurial and middle market-sized businesses, many of whom are owned by Private Equity firms. We recruit C-Suite talent for Private Equity firms and Functional Leaders for their Executive Management teams. It takes a certain type of candidate to thrive inside of these less structured and dynamic portfolio companies requiring very hands-on leaders who are doers. Successfully recruiting accomplished A players who have this profile is our core competency. Spectrum has built its entire team and business model around mastering the persuasion and systematic evaluation of these A players who generate significant impact. Discover even more information on CEO search partners.

Since February, senior executives have increasingly been asking how the pandemic, and now the presumed recession, will affect hiring in 2020. The answer is that it will vary. In any time of economic distress, not every industry slows down. While some companies lay off people, others hire them. As every prior downturn has shown, there is opportunity in chaos, and not just the unethical sort. Of course, hiring, productivity, and retention will likely be more challenging in this time of pandemic and recession. At least for now, there’s a new normal. But even if hiring decreases overall, at most companies there will be pockets of ethical opportunity and business continuity that warrant hiring at certain levels. Again, there is ethical opportunity in chaos. It’s imperative to look for potential leaders as well as rank-and-file employees who have shown they can survive and thrive in uncertain times, and that holds true for current leaders as well. Hiring practices have to adjust accordingly.

Each of the candidates we present to our Clients have the ability to be impactful, strong builders of high performing teams, and true business partners to CEO’s and their Board of Directors. Over 80% of the CEO’s we’ve placed and have gone through our process have hired us to build out their teams in the areas of Accounting, E-Commerce, Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing, Operations, Product Development, and Sales. Read additional info on executive search Denver.