ART FAQ

Does the name "Atlantic" mean that you can only recruit near the Atlantic coast?

ART was originally founded in New York in 1987, and the Atlantic Ocean was visible from our office windows. That view helped inspire us to do what, at the time, few recruitment firms dared to do: to look beyond a little island and to recruit everywhere on the planet!


Even today, most recruitment firms only know companies or candidates in their immediate locality, while the global economy and 21st Century's technological realities demand that business and careers understand and take advantage of opportunities in larger, more complex and interconnected markets.


Companies and candidates need recruiters who understand both the local and the global business world. That's where ART comes in!


ART today recruits on 6 continents, in over 100 countries, in 1,500 cities, as a "virtually local" executive search firm. This means that we are always focusing on recruiting candidates who are already in the locations where you need them to be, but if you need to choose candidates from a larger regional or worldwide database, ART can easily provide such options. Our recruitment evaluation processes are exactly the same for all locations. Some sample searches that we have worked on are posted on our website: CLICK.

Of course, we recruit in the United States! ART has been recruiting for positions all across America since our founding in 1987. We are based in the United States, and our recruiters are Americans with decades of experience recruiting not only internationally, but also in the USA.

When we say that we recruit globally, we're including the United States. And we recruit in all 50 states with equal comfort, in every metropolitan area. This expertise comes from decades of hard work, decades of learning companies and industries, and the key players in them. It even involves understanding things that are important to candidates in their lives, like relative housing costs and commuting time.

And we understand that America is a big place where there is no single national mindset regarding business culture. Understanding regional differences and preferences, regional styles of communicating, and other human-to-human relations factors, can be very important in finding the right person for the right position.


Too often recruiters think of themselves as princes and princesses over little feudal territories where they alone claim to "know everyone," simply because they are located in a place, and they often misguide their clients with such a narrow view of business. Moreover, one's zip code simply does not confer professional competence of any kind in 21st Century executive search and recruitment.


• Being located in Detroit does not mean that you automatically know how to design cars, and being in Silicon Valley does not automatically make you a semiconductor industry specialist. Similarly, a recruiter being located in a particular location does not automatically mean that they know how to recruit properly in that location.

• Our challenge is simple: the only way to properly judge a recruitment firm's effectiveness is by the quality of the candidates that are presented for a specific client need.
  

We view the world as being "local" and "global." Why is this conception very useful to your firm, even if you only have needs in the United States?


• If you are a US firm seeking a manager in Atlanta, for example, and you do not wish to relocate candidates, is an American recruitment firm in your industry that only has great candidates in Chicago an acceptable recruiter for you? No. It doesn't matter that they recruit someplace else in America. It matters if they have candidates or know how to find candidates where you need them to be. That's ART.

• If you are an employer based in Orange County, California and this week you need managers in Phoenix and Minneapolis and Dallas and Cleveland, should you then have to track down recruiters in all those cities in order to find good candidates? And what if next month you need people in San Antonio, Houston, Denver, Boston, Philadelphia, Rochester, Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh, Seattle, San Francisco, and San Diego? Have to find a dozen more recruiters still? And then have to explain again and again what your company does and what you need in an employee? No, you need a recruitment firm that recruits everywhere. We call this "worldwide," but if you prefer to call it "everywhere in the United States," that's OK with us.
  

• Our long experience recruiting nationally in the United States means that we not only understand where the right candidates are currently located, but also we may know of candidates in other areas who might be easily relocatable as well.

• Our recruitment reach and experience in the USA is deep. One of our specialties in the United States national market is a great ability to find great candidates for smaller localities where there simply might not be any really useful local recruiters. Or maybe local recruiters are only useful for certain types of jobs. If a company in a smaller local market needs a special kind of manager and they need to find the best possible candidates from outside their town, ART is especially able to find the right fit.
  

• Our focus is always on finding the best qualified candidates who are local to the site where our client needs them, but because we recruit everywhere, we can easily expand a search within a state or regionally or nationally if necessary.
  

What fields does ART recruit in?

ART has a broad candidate base of talented senior and middle management executive candidates from the high tech, industrial and service sectors. Most of our candidates could be found in the following general categories:

• General Management (CEO, President, General Manager, Managing Director, etc.)
• Finance (CFO, VP Finance, Director of Finance, Controller, Finance Manager, etc.)
• Sales, Marketing, Business Development (VP, Director, Country Managers, Sales Directors, Sales Managers, etc.)
• Supply Chain (Sourcing/ Procurement/ Purchasing, Materials, Distribution/ Logistics/ Fulfillment, etc.)
• Manufacturing (COO, VP Operations, Plant Manager, Director of Manufacturing, etc.)
• Information Technology (CTO, CIO, VP, and Director levels)
• R&D and Engineering (CTO, VP, and Director levels)
• Human Resources (VP, Director and Manager levels)
• Legal (Corporate Roles - only for Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Mideast)

I work at another executive search firm that would like to work with ART, either by presenting my candidates to you or with your firm finding candidates for my client searches. How do I contact you?

If you are a recruitment firm that would like to present candidates to us, we cannot help you. For one thing, it is very likely that "your" candidate is also already "our" candidate. ART does not outsource our recruitment process to any other company for any reason. This is to ensure the quality and ethics of the search according to our standards, because we strongly value the careers of our candidates as well as the quality of our work.


However, if your firm has a reputable history and if you have a very difficult search assignment and believe that our experience and candidates might be helpful in filling your client's search assignment, we are willing to discuss a relationship.