Executive Search

Executive Search is the process of refining a company's staffing needs, identifying and recruiting qualified candidates and facilitating a successful hire. We go the extra mile at Herrerias & Associates, and ongoing follow up and employee retention coaching is included in our Executive Search services.

We believe that each Executive Search project is a chance to move your organization closer to its stated mission and strengthen the culture around its honored values. Each assignment is a chance to strengthen our working relationships. Each project is a chance to enhance your organization's leadership team.

We do it differently…

• We Care. At Herrerias & Associates we care about the success of your organization, your team and your search assignment. We operate within the bigger picture of your organization's History, current operations, leadership and mission.
  
   
• We put Relationships first. Thus, we work to do what is right for you over the long-term and to make ours a learning relationship. How can we both continuously get better?
  
   
• We believe in the power of Teams. That is why our founder, Paul Herrerias, obtained a Master's Degree in Organization Development with a focus on high-performing team leadership. Paul spent years in team leadership coaching and applied the fundamentals to our Executive Search processes and methodologies. Our specialty is recruiting and screening candidates in leadership roles. We do so through high-performing teams in our firm.

You can count on our Team...

• We are Committed to delivering quality services to our clients. Our vision is to continue growing, satisfying clients and building a legacy well into the Twenty-First Century. Delivering on every search assignment is a critical step in building our legacy.
• We are Competent in the ways of Executive Search, with over one-hundred years of recruiting and leadership experience represented on our team and many successful search projects. We understand your business and human capital needs and have been successful for other companies.
• We Communicate with you before, during and after the search process. You know what to expect, the status of projects, and how we did it. As you would probably agree, it is better to communicate more and apologize less! See our Client References for more details.

For more information on how to screen a search firm, see "Why hire a Search Consultant?"

Crafting our search methodology has taken over twenty years. Our processes are a reflection of our values, our experiences (both successes and failures!) and of being a "student of the business" for as long as we have been in the search business.

We are proud of our screening methodology, which we believe is unique in the search marketplace. We have developed proprietary technology for screening candidates who will be in leadership roles.

Screening is critical, and yet it is only one of ten steps that we take to deliver the highest quality on your search project. For an in-depth look at our recruiting process check out our Ten Step Recruiting Process.

When should you contact your Search Manager at Herrerias & Associates? When you begin planning your work force needs. When you have questions around creating a position description. At least 90 days out from when you want the successful candidate on board and thirty days before you intend to begin the search.

Truth be known, the most productive way to work with a retained search firm is to establish an ongoing dialogue around work-force planning. The perfect time to hire an individual is a product of both internal client needs and external marketplace resources. We bring half of the dialogue to the conversation. Thus we could be in an ongoing, perhaps quarterly, dialogue about internal and external forces influencing your search needs. Another benefit to you of an ongoing dialogue is the resultant strong working relationship, a hallmark of Herrerias & Associates and great asset to you.

Herrerias & Associates delivers search services to our clients through four high-performing teams.

• The Marketing Team works closely with clients to define their needs, and then the
• Search Management Team works to fill the needs defined above, working with the
• Research Team, who assists in identifying candidates not already in our database and/or not actively looking for a job.
• The Administration Team supports all the other teams, interfaces with clients during search projects

To learn more about our team please refer to our Bios page.

We maintain professional offices in San Francisco and the North Bay. See the Contact Info page for maps and directions to our offices.

We currently work as a team that is found anywhere our clients need us to be. We connect over the phone, the Internet, in our client's offices and in our own offices. Our recruiters are meeting candidates in our offices or in far away locations that convenient for the targeted candidates.

Our clients count on us to conduct searches locally, nationally and globally. Thus, we maintain a network of search firms that support our clients around the world.