Helium Search was founded to serve as an alternative for growing companies who are looking for more than what today’s “big box” recruiting agencies offer. Our approach to search provides a uniquely-personalized, transparent and expedited process that focuses on team chemistry as much as professional experience. Built on the idea that “less really can be more,” we focus on creating stronger relationships with a smaller client base, ensuring that each search gets the focus and attention it deserves. This focused, “deep vs. wide” approach to recruiting allows us to gain a better understanding of the needs of our clients and needs and the motivations behind the talent we represent.
With nearly 20 years of talent advisory and executive search experience across multiple industries and markets, we thrive in high-pressure situations, excel in filling complicated roles and take pride in exceeding the expectations of our clients. We don’t throw around generic buzzwords and phrases like “white glove service” and “cultural fit” because they’re tired, overused and should be table stakes in executive recruitment. Instead, we’ve made it our mission to go above and beyond, delivering on the promises that other recruiters make.
The end result? Better candidates, hired faster.

We believe that candor is the most critical component of a successful partnership. To that end, we tell the client and the candidate’s full story - the good and the not-so-good - to ensure alignment, management expectations and mitigate any last-minute surprises when the time to make an offer comes.

We keep our clients in the loop during every phase of the search process. Combined with our (sometimes brutally honest) candor, our commitment to transparency ensures that when challenges arise - be they related to compensation, skill set, or competing opportunities - we’re able to work with our clients in real-time to mitigate any “deal killing” developments that are encountered along the way.

Because we understand that our clients and the talent we work with are entrusting us with big decisions, we set the tone at the start of every engagement to ensure that expectations on both sides are clearly communicated and managed. Taking it a step further, we understand that we serve as an extension of your organization during every touchpoint with talent in the marketplace and go above and beyond to ensure that every conversation we have paints your organization in the best light possible.

A candidate’s openness to new opportunities is their business, just like a company’s need for new talent is theirs. In this fast-paced “everyone knows everyone and everyone likes to talk” world we live in, keeping things close to the chest is a non-negotiable for us. We employ every level of protection possible to ensure that conversations between hiring companies and candidates stay between hiring companies and candidates.

Clear communication is the cornerstone of any successful partnership. When we kick off an engagement, we will work with your team to understand communication preferences and set expectations for clear and consolidated feedback to ensure the process runs smoothly and that important details are never missed.

The hire your company needs likely isn't looking for their next adventure, and they probably haven’t updated their resume in years. We know that the “good ones” get scooped up quickly, so we proactively reach out to passive candidates to learn their story and understand their motivations. This approach allows us to uniquely position opportunities in a way that resonates with candidates and helps our clients land the type of talent they thought was out of reach.
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