Leading Headhunters and Executive Recruiters (Los Angeles) Finding Talented Executives for Companies in Southern California
Keller Executive Search firm is widely recognized as one of the best talent acquisition agencies serving clients in Los Angeles. We are a proud member of NPAworldwide and our agency is widely recognized as a leader in the field of executive recruitment.
Los Angeles is an excellent corporate location for various reasons. There are several world-class higher education institutes and a number of active business sectors. The climate in Los Angeles is a major benefit for various sectors, not least of all tourism.
Additionally, the local infrastructure is world-class, making international trade simpler and more successful. Creativity and innovation are at the forefront of the local business economy in Los Angeles, CA.
Because of this, the city attracts many highly skilled executives each year. Such a saturated job market can become competitive quickly, and it can be equally difficult to find a job and find the right executive for your needs. Having a boutique executive recruiting firm like Keller as a partner can help alleviate these challenges for your organization during the hiring process.
Our wealth of tailored services, commitment to providing superior results, and ability to foster lasting client relationships are qualities that often set Keller apart as one of the top executive search firms in LA.
All accomplished executive recruiters understand that the recruiting needs between companies can vary significantly as there are a number of factors impacting these needs.
Keller is, therefore, committed to providing professional tailor-made searches to source the most qualified candidates for individual client satisfaction. Some factors that may influence search parameters are available resources, company size, and business expectations.
In addition to executive search, we also provide support. Our dedicated and passionate team of experts can assist with coaching, succession planning, corporate development, and corporate consultation. The goal is to ensure successful candidate integration.
Keller sources qualified candidates for executive roles in leading companies.
We tailor our executive search to ensure that unique company needs are met. We understand that companies require different search specifications, sometimes for very similar roles. Factors like company size, human resources, and industry can significantly impact search parameters.
Our process as an executive search firm starts with establishing individual search parameters with clients. This involves gaining an in-depth understanding of the client’s unique requirements for prospective employees, the duties that candidates will need to fulfill in the role, as well as the company’s culture.
Once these are clearly laid out, we can start our search process. Keller’s principled and disciplined style of executive search focuses on more than experience and qualification when identifying candidates. We aim to match the best professionals with the best companies to benefit both.
For this reason, we also focus our search and evaluation on personality traits and work ethic. Additionally, our evaluation and screening process includes verifying resumes and references, running thorough professional and criminal background checks, and personality testing.
Following this evaluation, a shortlist of candidates is presented to our clients for consideration. The final hiring decision remains with the hiring manager. Once the hiring process is complete, we can provide support through consultation and leadership development.
Keller’s team has many years of hands-on professional and personal experience in recruitment, which has provided our qualified team with the technical knowledge and specialized skills needed to accurately identify the best possible match for client needs. Each of our experts is also highly qualified, both academically and professionally.
We utilize this expertise in combination with our comprehensive market knowledge to provide our clients with outstanding results and quick turnaround times.
Additional services offered by Keller include employee retention strategy development, consulting, and HR advisory services.
As a leading recruitment agency in LA, Keller has established a reputation for consistently meeting, and exceeding, client expectations when identifying executive talent for critical leadership roles.
Keller Executive Search firm covers various industries, including but not limited to the following:
Like many executive search firms, Keller focuses mainly on the C-suite, but we also recruit for lower levels of management like associates. Some of the jobs we are most often requested to identify top talent for include:
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The collective experiences of Keller’s team have had a profound impact on the way we approach executive recruitment. During our early days as a recruitment agency, Keller adhered strictly to a standardized approach when it came to placing candidates. Our team members still vividly remember a project that involved a placement for one of our more significant clients. We proceeded to make the placement in full confidence, relying on the generic methodology that had served us well until that point.
However, as the placement progressed, we quickly realized that the skills and level of experience of the candidate we chose were poorly aligned with the company culture and requirements of our client. It was a mismatch, which ultimately led to a failed placement. This experience marked a turning point for our team and how we go about recruitment.
While this was a negative experience, it taught our team the shortcomings of a generic strategy and highlighted the critical value of offering tailored staffing solutions.
Keller has been able to achieve lasting success and relationships with our clientele, due to our commitment to meeting the specific needs of each client. To do this, we meticulously adapt our approach with every search process.
With this adaptable approach, we have assisted numerous clients in finding the leaders, managers, and executives needed to propel their businesses to new heights.
Consequently, Keller has become a distinguished name in the recruitment arena.
At Keller, we understand that even the best recruiting strategies are not 100% failproof. For this reason, we provide our clientele with this added assurance: Keller will provide a more suitable replacement for any new hires who do not meet expectations, fail to integrate successfully into your existing team, or are unable to perform the duties of the position. Provided this issue is brought to our attention within the first ninety days (three months) of their employment, we will provide a replacement free of charge.
Keller’s premier executive recruiters reach internationally when finding candidates for an industry leader. We can limit our search to Southern California or only to the greater Los Angeles area, whatever our clients need. Keller is dedicated to finding the best professionals for our clients, no matter the industry or size of the company.
To this end, Keller also does not focus on the demographics of professionals and job seekers. We want to ensure diversity and inclusion within client companies. Diversity ensures that the best candidates can be sourced from anywhere globally. The talent pools recruiters can access are larger and more substantial when age, race, and gender are not considered. Diversity ensures innovation within a company, and new talent brings new ideas to your Los Angeles office or California-based company.
Keller is a proponent of continuous learning. At our agency, we make it a part of our mission to stay up to date with the very latest developments in the field of recruitment. We stay abreast of new findings in the field, market changes and dynamics, and technological advances in order to provide service of the highest standard.
As a result of our commitment to quality and the vast expertise of our team, Keller has helped to shape the way executive recruitment is understood and approached. We have gained a long-lasting reputation for our reliability and high-quality results, making Keller’s name synonymous with expert executive search and recruitment.
Furthermore, we take our responsibility to make use of ethical and responsible practices very seriously. We value the protection of sensitive client and candidate data, and handle each of our searches with the utmost professionalism, confidentiality, and security to ensure client safety.
At Keller, we aim to respond to all client inquiries, criticisms, and comments professionally, respectfully, and constructively.
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“Keller has made finding the right manager for our team an absolute breeze. It was such a fast and easy process, and we were able to find the perfect person for what we needed. Will absolutely work with Keller again.”
- Sophia B., Chief Human Resources Officer
“We had been struggling to find a candidate that sticks, so we turned to Keller for help. The team was very knowledgeable and attentive, and assisted us every step of the way.”
- Leo T., COO
“The team at Keller was a great help in finding the two executives we needed to complete our own team. Cannot thank them enough.”
- James W., VP of Human Resources
In order to meet (or even surpass) the needs of our clients by providing top-tier professionals, Keller uses a customized, comprehensive recruitment approach. This approach results in a carefully selected list of candidates to choose from. Through this methodology, our team of passionate Los Angeles recruiters ensures a compatible fit.
Additionally, we offer further assurance with the promise to replace hires who fail to perform in their new position within 90 days of being employed by the client.
Boutique search and recruitment firms typically charge fees between 15% to 30% for their services. However, as this is such a broad range and each firm employs a different team of headhunters – each with unique fields of specialty – it is nearly impossible to give an accurate estimate of what an executive recruiter in Los Angeles may charge.
As a candidate, it is important to note that you will never need to pay a reputable search agency to become part of their network. However, clients will be charged for the use of their services.
As leading executive recruiters (Los Angeles), Keller conducts searches for exceptional leadership talent to assist our clientele in their hiring process. We do this by carefully hand-selecting professionals from our global network, as well as through sites like LinkedIn. For this reason, one of the best ways to get noticed by search agencies is to ensure your online profile on sites such as these is up to date with your latest academic and professional accomplishments.
You can also reach out to search firms directly via their contact information. For example, Keller welcomes all eager job seekers to send us their resumes through our “Send Your CV” page.
At Keller, we acknowledge that making use of external executive search agencies can come with both drawbacks and benefits. Some of these drawbacks include the time it can take for an external agency to identify and present clients with suitable candidates, as well as the cost of hiring such an agency. However, at Keller, most of our clients consider the benefits of our services and our excellent client outcomes more than worth the potential costs involved.
When partnering with an agency like Keller, the chances of finding the right candidate for your requirements are significantly higher. To increase the chances of success for your candidate search, executive agencies like Keller employ experts with extensive qualifications, deep market and industry knowledge, as well as many years of experience in the field. Our firm also boasts access to a vast global network of executives from which we can carefully select those most suited to each client’s unique requirements.
The process of recruitment is time-consuming and resource-heavy. This can place undue strain on HR teams, especially if they are already juggling multiple responsibilities. Allowing an agency like Keller to conduct the search process alleviates this pressure. This enables your leadership team to focus their time and resources on more strategic goals in the organization.
Another benefit of making use of external firms like Keller is that they often include added guarantees or assurances, effectively reducing the risk of spending time and resources on finding a candidate, only to realize they are not suited to the position. For example, as mentioned above, Keller offers all our clientele a 90-day replacement guarantee for new hires who fail to meet expectations – at no additional cost.
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Our dedicated senior consultants provide attention to detail at every stage of the search process, ensuring tailored results that exceed expectations
Leveraging our extensive network, we identify and attract world-class leadership candidates from diverse backgrounds and locations.
We offer expert advice to optimize HR processes, boost efficiency, reduce workload, and increase employee retention and engagement.
Our consultants expedite searches, cutting time-to-hire while securing the best talent available.
Beyond recruitment, we provide value-added services from organizational health to leadership development programs.
Keller follows the highest industry standards when searching for talent for its clients.
We contractually commit to replacing any hire that doesn't meet expectations.
We provide thorough evaluations, including personality insights, for shortlisted candidates.
We protect our clients’ interests by marking their entire company workforce off-limits for our candidate sourcing. We prioritize your business excellence.
Every client has two points of contact with Keller. An account manager and a senior consultant This ensures fast & continued response.
We conduct extensive background checks, covering credit, education, criminal, and employment history. We also perform security checks when needed.
Our Success Fee Is 18% | No Upfront Fees
2-3 Week Interview Turnaround Time