Our Results:

Precision:  Each search is time-lined with precise target dates.  For the last ten years, we have  consistently   delivered a  slate of Candidates within six weeks of search launch.

Reliability:  Over 90% of the Executives placed in the last seven years are still with our client companies.

Industry-Leading Client Retention:   Our client retention rate -- new clients that have returned for multiple searches -- stands at 99% over the last eight years.  This means that nearly 100% of new clients who hire us for our search process return again and again.  We enjoy long-term relationships with clients who have counted on us for nearly 15 years.

Candidate Impact:  With our long-term relationships with our clients, we are able to track the impact that our candidates are having on our client's success.  As a retained search firm, we play in a variety of markets.  Given the diverse and unique circumstances of each client market, it's difficult to quantify impact in one general category.  However, an integral part of our Search Process is to develop Mission-Critical Search Criteria.  These are three measurable objectives that our candidates must meet within a time-frame of at least three years in order to evaluate the success of the hire.  In the last eight years, over 95% of our candidates have hit their objectives at an evaluation rate of equal-to or above the stated objective.    

              
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Recent News From The Hunting Trail:

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Trophy Wall -- Featured Expedition 
Sales Executive Search Plays Integral Role In Electronics Manufacturer's Penetration Into Telematics Market:

DETROIT--Continued partnership leads to exponential growth for our client in the telematics market--capturing 50% market share from leading competitor within 1 year of our candidate coming on board.  --Click Here For More--

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Retained Executive Search -- Raiding Cubes and Executive Suites Since 1994

Let the face of the man in the picture to the right morph into that of your fiercest competitor.   He’s lifting his head and crying out to the corporate gods in anguish because his cubes and executive suites are empty.  His cubes have been raided, his top talent taken, and as sales plummet, production falls, sales territories vanish--he’s beyond his Malox Moment as he realizes the only employee he has left is Harry Hapless, who sits now in his tiny cubical mass e-mailing resumes on Careerbuilder.  Even Harry wants out.

He's been the victim of a predator that is becoming almost as rare and hard to find as the talent it hunts--the Cube Raider.

Over the last couple of decades, there's been a concession in the corporate hierarchy that the big-game hunters of corporate talent have lost the killer instinct.   We've evolved into a point-and-click culture, an Overstocked.com society of getting it quicker, faster, cheaper with the whisk of a mouse, a click of the keyboard, or the push of a text button.

The time-honored tradition of the big-game hunter mentality when it comes to locating top talent has been lost in technology and nomenclature.  The technology of point-and-click. The nomenclature of euphemizing Human Resource departments with epithets such as "Talent Acquisition" teams.

Joe Gammage, CPC, as Executive Vice President of Scottsdale Arizona-based retained executive search firm, The Knutson Group, has been practicing the time-honored tradition of the true raider of corporate talent for nearly fifteen years.  The Cube Raider method of talent search is not viewed as an extension of HR, but as an extension ofyour sales team.  Just like you hire top sales people to hunt down new customers and prospects to sell your company's products and services, the true executive search professional is an extension of your sales team--a hunter of prospects, selling your company and opportunities to unsuspecting talent.  HR is Human Resources when it comes to handling benefits issues and employee complaints, but easily becomes Human Refuse when mingling with the point-and-click culture of talent search.

This website is designed to inform and entertain.  We consider our successes on the hunting grounds as Trophies--triumphs of celebration for our clients.  Visit the Cube Raider Trophy Room for in-depth case studies of our work.   The Cube Raider Library contains useful articles and information relevant to busy executives, sales professionals, and career management.  Because of the partnership status we maintain with our clients, we keep our fingers on the pulse of their business and recent events in the marketplace.

Success in any hunt requires the execution of a plan, and our unique search process ensures consistent results, as emphasized in the testimonials of our customers who return to us again and again. 

The Cube Raider understands that it can get hot and dusty on the hunting trail.  It's important to stay hydrated and refreshed, and so Joe's Oasis and Grille is a place to wet your whistle with a little bit of humor and discussion of out-of-sorts topics.

Any further information or questions not addressed in this website or in our FAQs, please call Joe Gammage direct at 623-572-8989 or e-mail at joe@cuberaider.com. 

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 Testimonials -- What Joe's Clients Are Saying:

Dear Joe,

I wanted to drop you a note to let you know how much I’ve appreciated our business relationship over the last eight years. 

It’s always been obvious to me that you take the task of bringing superior candidates on board with us seriously.  Whenever I put you on a search, I know that I can be guaranteed a choice of strong candidates to interview.  I am always confident that you will have a viable candidate in the first two or three interviews.  It always seems you can read my mind.

I also appreciate the way our business relationship has evolved.  As my business and career has changed, you have consistently demonstrated ways to contribute to the success of myself and my business – whether it’s been coming into my office and consulting with my sales staff, or just in the contagiousness of your up-beat, passionate approach to success – you’ve certainly made an impact.

Your professionalism, responsiveness, and attention to detail make working with you a pleasure and a privilege.  I look forward to our continued professional partnership.

Sincerely,
Ed Kaiser
President
ECK Services

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