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Arts and Culture Recruitment
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Expert Arts and Culture Recruitment Services
Keller is widely recognized as a leading arts and culture recruitment agency. We focus on helping our clients in the arts and culture industry find candidates for vacancies at all levels. We utilize the extensive industry knowledge, specialized recruitment skills, and qualifications (both professional and educational) of our team members to find and recruit the very best talent for their needs.
Both arts and culture are vital in preserving a community’s sense of place and identity, as well as reflecting society as a whole. Art crosses cultural boundaries and can be understood in any language, thereby helping people from different backgrounds appreciate one another’s differences.
Despite its importance, the arts and culture sector is facing unprecedented funding cuts, particularly in Western countries. As such, placing talent with a passion for preserving and promoting the importance of arts and culture in a leadership role is crucial to enhancing society’s understanding of the past.
Additionally, the arts and culture sector can be competitive. While this sector is showing consistent growth and offers an increasing number of career paths, salaries tend to be low compared to other industries, and many professionals in the industry opt instead for freelance work. In such a competitive sector, it can be difficult for organizations to find the right people for their open roles.
That is where a recruitment firm like Keller can be helpful. We tailor our process to meet the needs of our clientele and handle the search process in their stead, freeing up their time and resources for more important initiatives.
This tailored process and our attention to detail allow us to find the ideal candidates for our client’s requirements, and we have built a lasting reputation for providing high-quality talent and reliable, excellent outcomes.
What We Do
At Keller, we follow a non-traditional, bespoke approach to headhunting that balances qualitative and quantitative data to ensure candidates we present to the arts and cultural organizations we serve are able to thrive when placed in their new leadership and executive roles. We do this through Assessment, Talent Acquisition, and Organization Transformation.
Assessment
Our executive search and recruitment process begins with a meeting between our team and our client’s team to discuss their staffing needs. We use this meeting to learn more about the organization, its culture, its team dynamics, and the challenges it faces in the industry. Additionally, we take the opportunity to understand our client’s requirements for new hires. This includes their experience, qualifications, skill level, motivations, and leadership traits.
Finally, our passionate team of recruitment experts also aims to understand what the vacancy will require of new hires, including their job duties and any potential challenges of the position.
These insights help us establish parameters to use during our search for the ideal arts and culture talent.
Talent Acquisition
At Keller, our headhunters have access to an extensive network of talent through our recognized NPAworldwide partnership. This means that we have access to a much larger candidate pool to choose from, and we are able to carefully hand-select those with expertise in the arts and culture industry.
All candidates in this initial group go through an extensive assessment before they are presented to the client. Our team conducts rigorous background and reference checks during the internal selection process. This includes checking for criminal histories and assessing their personalities through advanced psychometric testing.
The candidates who pass this process successfully are shortlisted. This shortlist is then provided to the client, who will make the final decision on who to hire.
Organization Transformation
It is our mission to provide our clients in the arts and culture sector with services and solutions of the highest quality. Our experts each boast over a decade of hands-on experience in the recruitment and executive search arena, and our team is deeply committed to helping clients connect with the best candidates available.
In other words, we help our clients transform their arts and culture organizations by providing them with professionals who have the competencies and skills to drive innovation, rise to challenges, and overcome them.
Our Approach to Arts & Culture Executive Search
Because it is our mission to help our clients strengthen and boost their business, we only consider our solutions successful if they achieve this goal. For this reason, our tailored services are designed to help businesses thrive by filling talent gaps.
In order to provide the best and most relevant assistance, our team is committed to continuous learning. We stay updated on the latest findings, developments, and advancements in technology within the arts and culture sector. In doing so, we are able to select talent capable of navigating complex markets and nuances in the field.
In addition, our team is committed to diversity and inclusion during the process of searching for the right candidate. We select candidates based on their merit and suitability for our client’s vacancy, and we hold no bias against any professional’s gender, race, age, beliefs, disabilities, or preferences.
Behind Our Approach
Keller’s team is made up of experts with extensive first-hand experience in the recruitment sector. These experiences have, over the years, guided us in our approach to executive search. One experience, in particular, catalyzed the development of our tailored recruitment methodology.
When we first began serving organizations in the arts and culture sector, we made use of a generic approach that we applied to all our projects. While it gave us satisfactory results at first, we were soon hired by a large company, and the results were not as positive. The candidates we had found using our one-fits-all method did not meet our client’s needs in terms of their leadership style, and their work ethic did not align with the client’s company culture. Because our approach failed to take these factors into account, the placement failed.
While this experience was challenging for our team, it taught us valuable lessons. It showed us how limiting a cookie-cutter recruitment approach can be and how vital it is to offer solutions tailored to individual client needs instead.
Since then, we have adapted and perfected our approach and, in doing so, reached greater success. Our success has inspired other firms to use similar customized methods, which has impacted the recruitment field significantly by shaping a better understanding of executive search worldwide. As a result, our name has become synonymous with top-notch search and recruitment services.
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Areas We Specialize In As Top Arts Sector Recruiters
Keller assists clients in finding talent for a variety of fields within the arts & culture and humanities sectors. Some of these fields include:
- Cultural Education
- Cultural Heritage
- Cultural Tourism
- Design and Craft
- Digital Art and Culture
- Film, Television, and Radio
- Literature and Publishing
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts and Fine Arts
- Artistic Education
Positions We Fill in the Arts & Culture Industry
Our search committee is comprised of seasoned executive recruiters who have partnered with arts and culture organizations of all sizes to assist in filling critical roles with the right leaders. This experience guides the research-driven and holistic process we use to map the marketplace and vet exceptional talent.
Our portfolio of placements includes directors, chief executive officers, and chief financial officers, as well as visionary arts administrators and resourceful development and marketing leaders. We have extensive experience working with a number of companies in management and governance, as well as institutions like schools and museums.
Yet the roles we fill are never confined to a predetermined list. Instead, we collaborate with each client to establish the brief and identify leaders who could foster financial sustainability and propel the organization forward.
Why Choose Keller As A Partner In Arts and Culture Recruitment?
When you partner with Keller, it is the goal of our experienced team of headhunters to help you find effective leadership to propel your organization to new heights.
Additionally, we offer complimentary leadership assessment and guidance on improving HR processes and workloads. Our team also offers consultation services for improving employee engagement and retention rates.
Our Promise – The Right Hire
At Keller, it is part of our mission to provide our clientele with professional services and the utmost confidentiality during the executive search process. We adhere strictly to industry-standard codes of conduct when it comes to data protection, and our team uses responsible and ethical recruitment practices to safeguard client privacy.
Our team also offers ongoing support to both the client and talent before, during, and after placement.
At Keller, our team dedicates itself to finding the right match for our clients and their companies. However, we acknowledge that even our tailored solutions can never truly be infallible. For this reason, we also provide our clientele with the added assurance of our 210-day replacement program. If the placed candidate is unable to fulfill the duties of their new role within the first 210 days of their employment, Keller will search for a more suitable candidate free of charge.
At Keller, our team is dedicated to providing our clients with exceptional search and recruitment solutions in the arts & culture industry. For this reason, we find feedback from our clientele extremely valuable and use it to continually better our services. For this reason, we aim to keep our responses to client criticisms, questions, and comments constructive and respectful.
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Client Testimonials
“Our team needed leaders with creative vision, but who would also be capable of overseeing finances. We struggled to find the right professionals, so we turned to Keller. They suggested some excellent candidates and those we brought on board are already making visible changes. We are very pleased with the service we received from Keller.”
- Linda K., Executive Director
“We are very happy with the service we received from Keller. Their team helped us refine our recruitment strategy and we appreciated their attention to detail. All around positive experience!”
- Aaron R., Vice President of Talent Strategy
“I was looking for professionals who had the organizational skills and creativity to lead teams and expand our initiatives. The candidates we found with Keller’s help have been bringing in fresh ideas and everything feels much more streamlined. Great fits for our team. Would work with Keller again.”
- Julia M., Head of HR
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Nationwide / Global Talent Acquisition
Leveraging our extensive network, we identify and attract world-class leadership candidates from diverse backgrounds and locations
HR Advisory Services
We offer expert advice to optimize HR processes, boost efficiency, reduce workload, and increase employee retention and engagement.
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Our consultants expedite searches, cutting time-to-hire while securing the best talent available.
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Beyond recruitment, we provide value-added services from organizational health to leadership development programs
Our Search Practices
Keller follows the highest industry standards when searching for talent for its clients.
Replacement Program
We contractually commit to replacing any hire that doesn't meet expectations.
Industry-Leading Assessments
We provide thorough evaluations, including personality insights, for shortlisted candidates.
Off-Limits Protection
We protect our clients' interests by marking their entire company workforce off-limits for our candidate sourcing. We prioritize your business excellence.
Dedicated Points of Contact
Every client has two points of contact with Keller. An account manager and a senior consultant This ensures fast & continued response
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We conduct extensive background checks, covering credit, education, criminal, and employment history. We also perform security checks when needed.
