Financial Recruiting - Executive Search

Financial Recruiting to Build Your Dream Team,
So You Can Focus on The Future

Hiring Risk at an All Time High

A landmark study by LeadershipIQ showed that nearly half of all hires fail within 18 months, and only 19% are declared “unequivocal successes.” If you flipped a coin and lost on a recent hire, you know what we’re talking about. It’s easy to do. The talent marketplace is in constant transformation with so much noise, and you have so many challenges on your plate when it comes to hiring top financial talent.

Recruiting Today is Upside Down

Today’s non-exclusive contingency framework, which dominates financial recruiting, deals in quantity, employs shallow search methods, and is fee and placement focused. This might be the way your company has always used recruiters. In today’s CHANGE environment, the way things have always been done won’t assure your company’s standing in the marketplace, or ultimately, your career.

Turning Recruiting Right Side Up

We’re bringing quality, depth, and integrity back to financial recruiting with our 7-Step Source Strategy for Hiring Top Financial Talent. You’ll ensure you hire the best through a defined and differentiated WHY, original market research, an opportunity sales piece for candidates, a talent heat map of your entire target market, omnichannel recruiting with leading edge digital tools, and a custom toolkit for evaluating candidates.

It’s Time for Some Straight Talk

If you’re looking to be an executive leader on the front lines of one of the most transformative and volatile periods in our history, you must take your financial recruiting game to the next level and put a Superstar in every critical seat on your team.

Amazing things happen when the right people, with the right tools and technology supporting them, do the right things, in the right place, at the right time. But when that first element isn’t right…the people part…well, everything else falls short.

People in financial roles can make or break the strategy, culture, success and growth trajectory of a company.

Identifying, attracting, hiring, and retaining the very best talent for these critical roles requires a high focus on quality, depth of process, attention to accuracy and detail, and commitment to an ideal outcome.

This is what we do best.

Through firsthand Finance background, a personalized client approach, and a research-focused process, FiSource Search Group is a boutique recruiting firm that enables companies to transform and gain competitive edge by hiring the top 10% of financial talent.

Customer Testimonials

A Modern, Personable Approach

“I worked with Laurie DeSalvo and can’t say enough good things about her. Laurie is the utmost professional and yet she’s personable in her approach. I’ve seen many recruiters that are “by the book” when the “book” can sometimes be tired, outdated and utterly useless in today’s world of finding…read more →

Tonya M., VP, SBA Commercial Loan Officer Midwest Regional Bank

Attention to Detail

“I worked with Laurie on a few highly visible, niche candidate searches and found her to be a fantastic partner. She digs in to understand the true needs of her client and does not stop until she finds “the one”. Her follow-up, attention to detail and deep understanding of emerging…read more →

Casey D., Talent Ambassador Capital One

Rare Standout Recruiter

“It’s rare to come across a standout recruiter like Laurie. I had the pleasure of working with Laurie after she identified me as a candidate for a financial services position she had been retained to fill. The position she matched me to was a near perfect fit for my skill…read more →

Daniel P., Consulting Principal – Process Transformation, VP Bank of the West

Persistence & Quality

“I had the opportunity to work with Laurie last year when I was seeking an experienced sales position for one of my markets. Through her network of professional contacts and her persistent efforts, we were able to find a knowledgeable and experienced candidate in an area where we had previously…read more →

– Gordon G., SVP Divisional Treasury Sales Manager Wells Fargo

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