Our Mission & Values
Our Specialty
Our Commitment
Our Search Specialists
Our Clients
Our Client Testimonials
Our Location

Our Mission & Values

We want to bring you a sustainable competitive advantage. To do that, we pledge to:
  • Partner with you and your team
  • Serve as trusted advisors
  • Bring strategic insight and knowledgeable counsel
  • Provide access to the best talent and the best resources
Since its founding in 1990, our business has grown steadily--even over the years when other regional firms were shrinking or closing their doors. How do we gain and retain both clients and search professionals? By following our process, and also following our values.

We serve you with expertise and tenacity. More important, we serve you with honesty and integrity.

With our strong professional network and guaranteed results, you can trust us to find the best person for you.

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Our Specialty

Our clients continue to engage us because we uncover the hidden treasures others can't find.

We won't just bring you the best candidates who are looking for a new position. We'll use our extensive networks to locate candidates that aren't actively looking, but who are open to exploring new positions. With access to this larger pool of talent, we can bring you the best of the best.

We provide the highest level of service with a great degree of flexibility. We use a refined process to help you identify critical expertise voids that keep your company from advancing. From there, we leverage both our know-how and our networks to identify key prospects who will fill those critical needs.

We don't waste our time, and we won't waste yours. After developing an accurate profile, we present 2-3 candidates within 3-5 weeks, on average. These are always highly qualified candidates who will raise the bar on your entire culture.

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Our Commitment

We want to be known as trusted advisors who bring valuable recruiting and search resources. So we partner with you. We provide the continuous support of a strong professional network. We share our knowledge base and leverage our resources to help you grow your business affordably.

Using our trusted advisors, you get results 30% to 50% faster than with a traditional search firm. How? Our competitors do a broad search and bring you any and all available candidates. We narrow the search by engaging only proven professionals who are active in today's competitive marketplace.

We stand behind our service with guaranteed results. We will continue our work until you are completely satisfied.

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Our Search Professionals

Our advisors handle the entire engagement: client contact, research, candidate interviews, and follow-up.

We handle fewer searches at once, so we pay more attention to each search we handle. While our competitors provide a broad search, which results in many unqualified candidates, we provide a narrow, focused search. Our refined process leverages our expertise and our networks. This accelerates the search, yet also allows us to locate the few candidates who are the most qualified.

That's why we present only the best of the best candidates--and we do it 30% to 50% faster than traditional search firms.

Each industry has unique challenges for locating the right talent. That's where our industry-specific expertise comes in.

For more information about how we can focus your search for qualified individuals, find the trusted advisor for your industry.

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Our Clients

A RANGE OF INDUSTRIES. A UNIFORM LEVEL OF SATISFACTION.

We serve a diverse list of industries, from medical to manufacturing, from high technology to health and fitness. For many of our clients, we've successfully completed a range of searches for key management positions and individual contributors.

All of our search professionals have an exceptional depth of experience in the industries served. That's why we present qualified candidates faster, and why we've successfully completed hundreds of searches since 2000. Here's a representative sample:

Customer Service
  • Manager

    E-Commerce
  • Senior Level Consultants

    Engineering
  • Director
  • Design Engineer
  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • Industrial Engineer

    Faith Based
  • Executive Pastor Minister
  • Director of Children's Ministry
  • Director of Youth Ministry
  • Missions Pastor
  • Regional Directors for Parachurch Organizations
  • Development Personnel
  • Spiritual Formation Director
  • Adult Discipleship
  • Small Group Pastor

    Finance
  • CFO
  • VP Finance
  • Controller
  • Director of Technology

    Information Technology
  • VP
  • Director of Quality
  • Director of Research
  • Director of Software Engineering
  • Principle software Engineer
  • Principle hardware Engineer
  • Manager

    Legal
  • Intellectual Property Attorneys
  • VP Corporate Affairs
  • In-House Counsel, Patent and Trademark

    Manufacturing
  • Executive Director
  • Director of Manufacturing
  • Director of Technical Publications
  • Director of Systems Engineering
  • Director of Purchasing
  • Master Trainers

    Marketing
  • Director
  • Manager
  • Product Manager

    Medical
  • CEO
  • Hospital Administrator
  • Director of Nursing
  • ER Nursing Supervisor

    Research and Development
  • Director
  • Ph. D. Chemist
  • Senior Level Research Scientist

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    Our Location
    VTL Search
    5720 Smetana Drive
    Suite 300
    Minnetonka, MN 55343 back to top