Thanks for reaching out. Overall, I liked Zach’s approach. He reached out and learned our team’s needs but did end up staying back after interviews were started. We hired pretty quickly after the first few candidates we reviewed.
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Client Reviews
Director of Development Engineering – Electronic Manufacturing
I’ve been working with recruiting services to hire engineers for about 15 years now. I get cold calls from new recruiters all the time but have found very few worth my time. There’s only one fellow I have been working with long term. The reasons for that come down to personal follow up, clear understanding of the needs, and obvious course correction based on feedback. Zach is the only recruiter I’ve worked with in the past 10 years that has come close to my benchmark guy.
Zach wasn’t pushy. He took the time to ask me good questions about my needs & expectations, going much deeper than typical recruiters. His follow up wasn’t too frequent nor was it scarce. He listened to my feedback about first candidates and quickly refined his search. I never dreaded a call from Zach, wondering what smoke he’d blow my way next. He even handled some awkward interactions with our brand new controller and our HR generalist with class. I struggle to find ways to suggest improvement for Zach or the Skywater approach.
You’ve got a good formula going and Zach’s approach really jives with me. He has earned a spot on my benchmark list. I look forward to another opportunity to work with Zach and Skywater.
BTW, we are three days into our first week with our new hire and I’m super happy.
Managing Director – Private Equity Investment Firm
Working with Julie was great. I know she worked really hard to find qualified candidates for us and we’re excited to have our new hire join us. Julie was very collaborative throughout the process. I could give her very candid feedback on applicants and on our process. She was responsive, often taking my calls in the evening after typical work hours. When the first batch of candidates didn’t meet our targeted profile, she took the time to better understand what we were looking for and provided strong candidate profiles.
Corporate Controller – Truck Manufacturer
Tom is great. He is very responsive and spends time understanding the needs and makes appropriate adjustments as we work on each candidate. I am happy with the overall experience.
Hiring Manager – Educational Programing
Erin was a pleasure to work with. She quickly understood the job profile and found a great group of candidates for us to speak to. Once we knew we wanted to move forward with our top candidate, she helped us to quickly confirm his interest and successfully move to an acceptance. I want to also give Erin credit for being very flexible with our hiring process, as there were two of us on the CPM side involved from the beginning with various scheduling conflicts, and she patiently helped us navigate scheduling and follow-ups with the candidates, and always provided thoughtful recaps.
Human Resources Manager – Legal Services
I’ve enjoyed working with Kelsey on a few different placement. Our new employee seems like a great hire and we are excited for him to get up and running.
Hiring Manager – Jeweler
We had an awesome experience with Emma. We have worked with other placements companies in the past and this was by far our best experience. I highly recommend SkyWater.
Hiring Manager – Workspace design & supplier
Tom was great. He clearly put a lot of energy behind finding us good candidates quickly. He was very responsive and the communication was always very clear. Tom was also very easy to work with.
CEO – Insurance Company
Our experience with Nicole was great. We had good candidates to talk with and excited about the one we elected to move forward with. Time will tell the true value, but we are excited to have our new employee on board.
VP Human Resources – Healthcare
Matt has done a terrific job for us. He is responsive, great listener to understand our business needs, and provides excellent customer service. I will definitely work with him again and would recommend Matt to other HR colleagues. I have worked with many search firms over my HR career and would put Matt in the top tier.
