Direct Hire Recruiting
Targeted recruiting for permanent professional, technical and leadership positions.
Reach qualified professionals beyond job postings and normal applicant flow, with support from search definition through acceptance.
Recruiting services
Recruiting services built around your hiring need.
Hire a permanent employee, add contract support or plan a leadership search. Valley Search Group helps you choose the recruiting approach for the role, candidate market and resources available to your team.
Start a searchFive ways to move forward
An engagement built around the work.
Valley Search Group offers multiple recruiting and staffing models so the engagement can reflect the actual business need. Whether the objective is one permanent hire, flexible capacity or a focused recruiting project, the starting point is a clear requirement.
Explore direct hire
Contract Staffing
Specialized professionals for projects, interim needs and changing workforce requirements.
Discuss the skills, assignment duration, work arrangement and support required. Engagement availability and terms are evaluated individually.
Contract-to-Hire
An evaluation period before an organization and professional consider permanent employment.
Explore whether an initial contract period fits the position and candidate market. Permanent conversion is not guaranteed.
Executive & Retained Search
Structured search for senior, confidential and business-critical leadership positions.
Define the leadership profile, relevant candidate market and confidentiality requirements before approaching prospective executives.
Recruiting Consulting
Search strategy, market research and supplemental recruiting support for a defined need.
Discuss a stalled search, a new candidate market, a process challenge or a temporary need for additional recruiting capacity.
Choosing a model
What does the
situation call for?
Duration is one factor. Seniority, confidentiality, candidate interest and the resources available internally also affect the choice.
A permanent hire
Direct Hire Recruiting
A long-term professional, technical or leadership position needs targeted candidate outreach.
Flexible workforce capacity
Contract Staffing
A project, implementation, interim need or workload increase calls for a defined assignment.
An initial evaluation period
Contract-to-Hire
The position may become permanent, with time for both parties to evaluate the working relationship.
A critical leadership hire
Executive & Retained Search
A senior, specialized or confidential position calls for structured discovery and market coverage.
A defined recruiting project
Recruiting Consulting
The need is research, strategy, pipeline development, process review or supplemental capacity.
Common hiring situations
When another approach can help.
An outside recruiting firm can work alongside your internal team when a search needs additional focus or market coverage.
When to use a recruiting firmHow an engagement begins
Define the requirement.
Choose the next step.
- 01
Discuss the need
Review the position, organization, required experience, location, compensation, timing and business circumstances.
- 02
Select the model
Consider urgency, confidentiality, expected duration, candidate availability and the support required.
- 03
Define the strategy
Develop the candidate profile, target market, outreach plan, qualification criteria and communication process.
- 04
Begin the search
Identify and engage prospective candidates through research, direct sourcing, referrals and professional relationships.
Professional & leadership hiring
Specialized across business functions.
Technology, engineering, semiconductor and advanced manufacturing, marketing and communications, legal, program and project management, and executive leadership.
Explore our expertiseA useful starting point
Questions about working together.
Which recruiting service should we use?
The appropriate service depends on whether the position is permanent or temporary, its seniority, confidentiality, urgency, candidate market and your internal recruiting capacity.
Can a search extend outside Arizona?
Yes. Valley Search Group is based in Arizona and supports regional and national searches across the United States.
Can the search remain confidential?
Confidentiality requirements should be discussed before recruiting activity begins so information sharing, communication and candidate outreach can be structured appropriately.
Can an engagement cover more than one position?
An engagement may involve one specialized hire, multiple positions, workforce expansion, project recruiting or supplemental capacity. The scope is evaluated and agreed for the requirement.
How do we obtain rates and engagement documents?
Scope, rates, responsibilities and engagement documents are discussed and provided directly after contact has been established. Terms are defined before recruiting work begins.
Your next hire starts here
Which approach fits your hiring need?
Share the position, required experience, location, employment structure and anticipated timeline. We’ll discuss the appropriate next step.
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