EXECUTIVE SEARCH ★ VERTICAL CAREERS, INC.
Executive Search Built Around Human Judgment.
Retained and direct-hire search for organizations that need more than keyword matching, recycled candidates, or a stack of resumes.
The Resume Is a Tool. The Hire Is a Human Decision.
A resume can show experience. It cannot fully show judgment, curiosity, credibility, leadership, motivation, adaptability, or whether the human will succeed inside your actual operating environment.
Vertical Careers combines market knowledge, disciplined search, and 25+ years of human observation to understand the role behind the job description and the human behind the resume.
Functions We Know
Executive & C-Suite
Enterprise and functional leaders who shape strategy, culture, execution, and growth.
Accounting & Finance
CFO, Controller, FP&A, accounting leadership, finance transformation, and specialized finance talent.
Human Resources & Talent Acquisition
CHRO, HR leadership, talent acquisition, people operations, organizational development, and specialized HR capability.
Operations & Supply Chain
Operations, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, logistics, quality, and continuous-improvement leadership.
Engineering & Specialized Leadership
Engineering, technical, commercial, and cross-functional leaders whose success requires both subject-matter credibility and operating judgment.
Why Searches Miss
- The job description describes tasks but not the business problem the hire must solve.
- The interview process rewards confidence while missing credibility, judgment, and actual operating behavior.
- Stakeholders agree on a title but not what success must look like in 6–12 months.
- The search targets familiar backgrounds instead of the human capabilities required.
- The process moves slowly, communicates poorly, or changes direction after strong humans enter the conversation.
These are not always sourcing problems. They are often Human Operating Problems affecting how the role is defined, assessed, communicated, and decided.
The Search Approach
- assessment ★ Understand the business, leader, team, role, environment, urgency, and visible hiring problem.
- identification ★ Define the real success profile, constraints, market realities, and human capabilities the role requires.
- activation ★ Align stakeholders and launch a focused market, sourcing, outreach, and candidate-engagement strategy.
- implementation ★ Source, assess, calibrate, communicate, interview, reference, and move qualified humans through the process.
- reinforcement ★ Support selection, closing, transition, and follow-through so the hire can become a lasting one.
Follow the phases. Recalibrate when the market or new information changes the diagnosis.
What Clients Can Expect
- Focused shortlists. A 5:1 submittal-to-hire ratio reflects disciplined assessment, not resume volume.
- Human conversations. Candidates are engaged as humans, not treated as inventory moving through a funnel.
- Market truth. Honest calibration on compensation, location, availability, employer reputation, candidate concerns, and search difficulty.
- Clear communication. Direct feedback and shared accountability throughout the search.
- Long-term thinking. 90%+ placement retention because the goal is not simply an accepted offer—it is a credible match that can hold.
Organizations We Support
Startups, founder-led businesses, private and public companies, private-equity environments, and Fortune 200 organizations across aerospace, engineering, manufacturing, consumer products, biotech and pharma, professional services, financial services, logistics, real estate and construction, and other complex operating environments.
CLIENT PROOF
What Hiring Leaders Say
Five perspectives from clients who trusted Eva and Vertical Careers with consequential hiring decisions.
“Eva is extremely intelligent, high energy, and ethical. Her best attributes are that she is a great listener and is extremely personable. I also appreciate the fact she values my time, and only sends qualified candidates for my review.”
Robert Jewik
Controller ★ Client
“Her team immediately provided quality candidates and we were able to hire two engineers through VCI. We are very happy with the results.”
Ralph Burroughs
Chief Financial Officer ★ Palomar Technologies
“Eva offers a traditional recruitment partnership with an edge and an innovative approach to finding excellent talent.”
Mary E. Nieto
Human Resources Director ★ Client
“Eva takes the time to understand our Team in order to provide candidates with the proper accounting/finance experience, personality and work ethic—creating an efficient recruiting process.”
Terry Tuttle
Senior Finance Executive ★ Client
“Within a few days she brought to the process an individual that we neither would have sought out nor would have been comfortable reaching out to us. Seven years ago, we continue to reap the rewards of having one of the finest Finance people in the industry working with us.”
Jeff Solem
Hiring Client
Let’s Understand the Search Before We Prescribe It.
Share the role, business need, timing, and what has already been tried. We will begin with assessment and tell you candidly whether Vertical Careers is the right partner.
Humans Behind the Tools. ★ We Are the AIR.
Humans Behind the Tools. ★ We Are the AIR.
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