How Companies Mis-Imagine The World: North America

Report on ART's Canada Recruitment

Report on ART's USA Recruitment

Further Report on ART's USA Recruitment

A Sampling of Past or Current ART Executive Searches in Canada

"Decoding Top Talent Inside Atlantic Research Technologies"

"ART's High Precision Headhunting Model"

"The Human Art of Headhunting"

ART recruits senior leaders across:

• C‑suite: CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO

• General Management: Country Manager, Managing Director, President

• Commercial Leadership: VP Sales, Sales Director, Business Development

• Finance Management: CFO, VP Finance, Controller, Planning & Analysis, M&A
  

• Operations & Manufacturing: VP Operations, Plant Manager, Engineering Director

• Supply Chain & Procurement: Logistics Directors, S&OP Leaders

• Technology: CTO, VP Engineering, R&D Director, Technical Director

• Information Technology: CIO, CISO, VP IT, Director Data Center

• Corporate Functions: CHRO, HR Director, HR Manager, Legal & Compliance Leaders

ART recruits people everywhere, efficiently and quickly. Most Canadian executive search firms, by contrast, are highly localized, so that a search firm in Montreal might not have many candidate or company contacts in Québec City or Toronto. A Toronto recruitment firm might not know people or companies in Windsor, Ottawa, Mississauga, or Waterloo.

A Vancouver search firm might not know candidates or companies in Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg or Halifax. Moreover, too frequently in Canada, francophone recruiters might only recruit francophones, while anglophone recruiters might only recruit anglophones.

We know that businesses have urgent needs to reach as much of the Canadian customer market as quickly, and as fully, as possible. Canadian customers want to be served equally, but if managers tend to be recruited with a focus on one locality or on one language group rather than by identifying the best national candidates, markets will tend to remain divided, and products and services might not be fully available to all.

The practices existing at most Canadian executive search firms of accepting as permanent facts regional feudalism or linguistic bifurcation, tend to make our competitors useless to our Canadian clients and candidates -- even in their own city! Canadian and foreign companies come to ART to end the hand-wringing about supposed divisions, and they ask us to just go find great managers who can bring together Canadian staff and customers nationwide.

In the harshest conditions, from the earliest times in Canadian history, when trade routes were created by people kayaking across the Bering Straits, crossing the North Atlantic in tall ships, or by portaging lakes, rivers and streams, there have been traders who have known how to bridge cultural gaps and make good business.

Such people have always existed in Canada. They know how to listen to people, how to understand their needs, and then people look to them to lead. Such natural Canadian business leaders can be found today, if the recruiter understands what key characteristics and experiences to look for. We think that this is ART's strength, and we hope to bring ART candidates to your firm.

When Canadian candidates or Canadian companies need to look beyond their immediate cities, across their province, across the nation, ART is better equipped to help introduce the right contacts.

We know and respect local markets while serving as a bridge between them. This is the great value that ART brings its clients and candidates in Canada, as well as foreign firms seeking Canadian CEO's, Managing Directors, General Managers, National Sales Directors, etc. who can reach all Canada. The alternative - engaging multiple search firms in multiple cities or provinces simply to identify top national candidates - is simply too impractical, too costly, too much prone to delays and other inefficiencies.

When Canadian candidates or Canadian companies need to look beyond Canada, and into the US, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Mideast or Africa, ART is better equipped to help introduce the right contacts.

If a Canadian corporation needs to find key managers in the USA or in any of the 100+ countries where ART recruits, that company is almost certainly not going to be well served by their local executive search contacts. For us, the whole world is easily understandable and reachable to our client-companies. Our candidates abroad await such employers, eager to build their businesses.

Unlike most recruitment firms based in Canada, which have to depend upon outsourced foreign recruiters and unclear partnerships for overseas searches, ART does 100% of all our own recruitment. We recruit directly in over 100 countries, and we never use any other recruitment company to find our candidates. In this way, we are able to deliver excellent candidates with the same level of efficiency and quality of service that is expected in our clients' home countries.

When leading companies headquartered outside of Canada need to find a person to start up or run a Canadian, North American or USMCA business unit, ART offers its experience in global business to those firms.

Because ART is at home everywhere on the globe, ART recruiters understand well both the business assumptions and expectations of the foreign employer, as well as those of the Canadian candidate. Reaching across a national Canadian base of candidates, ART is able to identify the best managers to serve the international firm's recruitment needs, be they with a focus on general management, sales and marketing, finance, supply chain or operations.

Opportunities for global business expansion, such as with the Canada-EU free trade pact, can potentially make a North American base in Canada for a European firm a win-win opportunity, but only if the right people are hired. That's why the guidance of an ART recruiter can be so important to the foreign firm's advancement inthe Western Hemisphere.

American firms expanding into the Canadian market or seeking top executives to manage or develop their Canadian business units can be comforted in the fact that as ART is an executive search firm founded in the U.S., our recruiters have the deepest understanding of the needs of American firms in Canada.

OUR RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN CANADA
Industrial Products + Industrial Equipment	Packaging Equipment, Packaging Technology, Material Handling Equipment, Machining Equipment, Metalworking Equipment, Processing Equipment, Metrology Equipment, Industrial Automation, Motion Control Systems, Robotics, Sensors, Hydraulic Pumps, Valves, Actuators, Safety Equipment
Chemicals, Metals, Advanced Materials	Specialty Coatings, Polymers, Resins, Bulk Chemicals, Steel, Metal Alloys, Ceramics, Composite Materials, Plastics
Automotive	Automobile, Tier 1 & Tier 2 Automotive, Automotive Electronics, EV Technologies, Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive Entertainment Systems, Heavy Equipment, Trucks, Off-road vehicles
Aerospace + Aviation	Aircraft, Aircraft Interiors, Aircraft Seating, Aircraft Composites, Aircraft Entertainment Systems, Aircraft MRO Services, Aircraft CETS Services, Airlines, Airline Food Services, Airline Cargo Services
Food + Consumer Products (CPG) + FMCG	Packaged Foods, Dairy, Snacks, Beverages, Cosmetics (Skincare, Haircare), Household Disposables, Petcare; Clothing, Footwear, Sporting Goods
Consumer Durables	Furniture, Refrigerators, Washers, Dryers, Household Appliances
Consumer Services	Luxury Goods, Retail, Hospitality, Delivery Services
Financial Services + B2B Services	Fintech (E-banking, Mobile banking, Digital payments), Insurance, Bank Cards, Wealth Management, Family Offices, E-Commerce
Logistics + Supply Chain Services	Freight Forwarding, Material Handling, Fulfillment Services, Warehousing, Intermodal Logistics, Air Cargo, Marine Cargo, Trucking, 3PL, 4PL, 5PL, Recycling
IT Services + Software + Communications	Enterprise Software, ERP, Data Centers, Network Services
Medical Devices + Medical Equipment	Medical Disposables, Medical and Health Sciences Instrumentation, Medical Imaging Equipment, Surgical Instruments, Implantable Devices, Diagnostic Equipment, Dental Equipment
Semiconductors + Electronics	Semiconductors, Connectors, Computers, Consumer Electronics, EMS + CEM Services
Energy & Engineering Services	Petrochemicals, Mining, Natural Resources, Hydropower, Environmental Services