Executive search · sourcing & search phase

Finding the people is the hard part. That's the part I do.

Stone Recruiting runs the search phase of executive hiring: deep, research-driven sourcing that goes well beyond keywords and titles. I map the market, dig into target companies, and hand you a pipeline of well-matched passive talent for your team to engage. You reach out, screen, and close.

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One phase

Search, Done Deeply

I don't do full-cycle, and that's the point. I bolt onto your existing team as the person who finds the talent, the part most shops underrate and most hires stall on. Your own recruiters already know the client, the company, and the culture, and that internal knowledge is exactly what should be handling candidates and closing conversations. I feed them a strong pipeline; they do what they do best.

Research

Beyond Keywords And Titles

A real search isn't a boolean string. The people who fit are buried inside target companies, adjacent industries, and teams that never surface on an obvious search. I do the target-company research and market mapping that finds them, the slow, cumbersome part most searches skip.

20+ yrs

In The Chair

Two decades of executive search across hard-to-fill and senior roles. I know where the people are, how to reach them, and how to tell a real fit from a paper one.

// How it works

Three steps. You stay focused on closing.

Plug me into the front of your hiring process. I run the market and hand off people worth your team's time.

STEP 01

Define the search

We align on the role, the must-haves, and what "great" actually looks like for this hire — the nuance a job description never captures.

STEP 02

I run the market

Deep sourcing, market mapping, and target-company research. I go past titles and keywords to find the people who actually fit, including the strong passive ones a basic search never surfaces.

STEP 03

You get a pipeline

A pipeline of well-matched passive candidates, handed off with context and ready for your team to engage. Want initial outreach too? I can run it, but most teams take it from here.

// Why work with me

A search partner, not an agency.

You work directly with me — the person doing the search — not a rotating team or a junior handed your account.

The hire everyone remembers is the one nobody else could find. That's what the search phase is for, and it's the part I've spent twenty years getting good at — so your team can spend theirs closing.

— Stone Recruiting

20+

Years in search

Direct

You work with me

The one thing I do

// Start a search

Got a role that needs finding?

Tell me what you're hiring for. I'll tell you straight whether it's a search I can move on and how I'd approach it.

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