What we are, and what we are not.
Most firms in this space are one of three things. We are deliberately none of them, which shapes everything about how the work runs.
Not a search firm
We do not fill your roles. We make your own team better at filling them, which is a different business and a different incentive.
Not academics
No ideal-state models. Everything we recommend has been run inside a real company, usually by the person recommending it.
Practitioners who teach
Former corporate talent leaders who know what it is like to do this with limited budget, limited time and a business that wants the hire yesterday.
Twenty years, 350 companies, 20 countries.
John Vlastelica founded Recruiting Toolbox in 2005 after nearly a decade leading corporate recruiting, including Head of Tech Recruiting at Amazon and Head of Recruiting at Expedia.
Since then the firm has worked with around 350 companies across more than 20 countries: start-ups through to Amazon, Disney, Google, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Booking, Walgreens and Adobe.
The through line has not changed. Recruiters are more than req fillers and hiring managers are more than interviewers. Train them properly, fix the system around them, and the quality of who you hire changes.
The people who do the work.
Every trainer and consultant here has run recruiting inside a company. That is the hiring bar for joining, and it is why the advice survives contact with your Monday.
How we actually work.
Nothing off the shelf. Every programme is built from your roles, your interview guides and your hiring bar, which is why discovery comes before anything else.
We work in complex, global organisations with limited resources, because that is where all of us came from. If a recommendation would not survive a real quarter, we do not make it.
And we will tell you when training is not your problem. It costs us engagements and it is the reason clients come back.
