Recruiting is highly specialized professional selling built upon relationships and reputation. "Headhunting" success is a function of skill and effort. The recruiting paradox is sublime: good headhunting is one-on-one personal selling, but clients want and deserve universal reach to ensure the best prospects are the ones being sold.

Strategic Focus: O’Connell Group, LLC services two very specialized markets: Marketing and Marketing Research.  The tight focus on the markets in which we are expert maximizes:

   ·        Our understanding of these markets

   ·        The efficiency of our efforts on your behalf

   ·        Our awareness of the marketplace and the candidate population

   ·        Awareness of us and our reputation within the candidate population

Selective Client Base: O’Connell Group, LLC chooses to limit our clients within each industry so the majority of the talent universe for your specific needs is available to recruit for you.

Scale and Resources: O’Connell Group, LLC has:

   ·        Twelve full-time professional recruiters,

   ·        Supported by six Research Associates,

   ·        We have the national reach and frequency in the candidate community necessary to search and find the quality talent you require.

   ·        Our very high support : professional ratio maximizes the time we spend directly interacting with your “target consumer” – marketers and researchers.

In-depth Candidate Assessment: Every candidate we forward to you will have been pre-screened, and we will send you a written assessment of their skills and abilities qualifying them for the current opening, their potential for growth and advancement, and their fit with your culture.

Foundational Experience: Combined, O’Connell Group, LLC’s recruiters have over 100 person-years of marketing and research experience prior to becoming recruiters.  This experience provides us fundamental understanding of:

   ·        The skills, abilities, and experiences you require to meet your marketing and research staffing needs.

   ·        How to effectively evaluate candidates to ensure they have the skills you need.

   ·        What candidates want to further their career so we can win-win sell them for you.

   ·        The credibility to be able to persuade candidates by virtue of having had successful careers in marketing and research.

Recruiting Experience: O’Connell Group, LLC provides you with the benefit of over 50 person-years of successful recruiting experience.

   ·        As in any profession, excellent potential and training must be tempered by experience in order to forge a truly sharp cutting edge.

   ·        Long-standing relationships with candidates and years of building our reputation one relationship at a time have built up a significant brand equity of trust and integrity that enables us to more effectively persuade candidates for you.

Recruiting Expertise: O’Connell Group, LLC is a member of the National Association of Personnel Services, the nation’s largest professional recruitment association. All O’Connell Group, LLC recruiters:

   ·        Undergo comprehensive selling training.

   ·        Are extensively schooled in the legal obligations of employment law.

   ·        Sit for the Certified Personnel Consultants (CPC) exam as soon as eligible –

q       CPC is the industry’s most stringent third party administered certification of professional competency, assuring clients and candidates they are dealing with an ethical and trustworthy recruiter.

Customer Relationship Marketing: O’Connell Group, LLC’s 50 years of recruiting effort has yielded over 15,000 candidate relationships. These existing relationships:

   ·        Guarantee national reach when we search for you, because they comprise a significant percentage of the total universe of marketing and research talent in the US.

   ·        Allow us to assess talent in context.  Since we are speaking with marketers and researchers at all the major companies on a regular basis, we are aware of the quality reputation of the talent at each of these companies.  Who is “first in their class”?  Who is in trouble? Who is an up-and-coming leader?  Who has problems managing people?

   ·        Allow us to better influence candidate thinking.  Since we have built trust-based relationships over an extended period of time before candidates become active, we have candidate-provided preferences and motivations, giving us the insight to tailor our sale on your behalf to this particular candidate’s motivations.

Brand Equity: O’Connell Group, LLC has maintained a high standard of professionalism, earning the trust of our 15,000 candidates for our competency as well as our integrity.  This brand equity – this trust – is deployed for your benefit when we endorse you to candidates.

Unique Team Partnership: All O’Connell Group, LLC recruiters receive a percentage of the gross revenues of the firm.  We all support each and every search for every client.  Unlike other recruiting models, where individuals within a firm are compensated only for their individual production, we share the reward, the risk, and the commitment to each and every client.