Executive Recruiter
Remote / Work From Home / Must be Eastern or Central Time Zone
Ed-Exec, Inc. | Nationwide Executive Search – Education
Take Your Recruiting Career to the Next Level
Ed-Exec, Inc. is a nationwide boutique executive search firm specializing exclusively in education.
For more than 20 years, we have partnered with universities, colleges, career schools, charter organizations and other education providers across the country to identify and recruit the leaders who help move their organizations forward.
We are not a large staffing company, and we don’t want to become one.
We are a specialized boutique search firm built around experienced recruiters, long-term relationships, technology, research and one fundamental belief:
Great recruiting is still about people.
Our recruiters have been with Ed-Exec for an average of approximately a decade or longer. We believe that says something about both the profession we’ve built and the environment we’ve created.
Now we’re looking for the next person to join that team.
We’re Looking for a Talent Acquisition Professional — Not an Experienced Headhunter
This is not an entry-level position.
But we’re also not looking for someone who has spent their career working for a staffing agency or executive search firm.
In fact, our ideal candidate may currently work in corporate Talent Acquisition.
You already know recruiting.
You understand sourcing, candidate screening, recruiting technology, pipeline management, hiring managers and candidate communication.
We’ll teach you how to headhunt.
Executive search is different.
Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, you’ll learn how to identify talented professionals who aren’t looking for another job, get them on the phone, understand what motivates them and determine whether the right opportunity could cause them to make a career move.
That’s where recruiting becomes a craft.
Learn From People Who Have Been Doing This for Decades
You’ll be joining an experienced executive recruiting team with deep relationships throughout the education sector.
Ed-Exec President Vincent Scaramuzzo began his executive search career with Management Recruiters International, one of the world’s largest executive search organizations, where he became a multiple-year Pacesetter and was recognized as one of the organization’s Top 25 recruiters worldwide.
He founded Ed-Exec in 2008 and has spent the years since developing a search methodology specifically for the education marketplace.
You’ll work directly with Ed-Exec leadership and experienced senior recruiters while learning that methodology.
This isn’t a giant organization where you’re Recruiter #347.
You’ll know the people you’re working with. They’ll know you. And the people teaching you how to become an executive recruiter will be the same people who have spent decades actually doing it.
A Unique Recruiting Niche
Education is an enormous and constantly evolving marketplace.
Our clients range from colleges and universities to career-focused institutions, online education providers, charter organizations and other education businesses.
Our searches can include:
- Presidents and Campus Presidents
- Chief Financial Officers
- Vice Presidents
- Deans and Academic Leaders
- Admissions and Enrollment Executives
- Nursing and Healthcare Education Leaders
- Operations and Administrative Leadership
- Other senior and specialized education positions
Rather than recruiting everything for everyone, you’ll become an expert in a defined national marketplace.
Over time, you’ll develop relationships with candidates and education leaders throughout the country.
Those relationships become your professional network.
And that network becomes enormously valuable.
Technology Should Create More Human Contact — Not Less
We believe technology is making executive recruiting better.
At Ed-Exec, we aggressively embrace AI, recruiting databases, automation, LinkedIn, advanced research tools and emerging recruiting technology.
But we’re not using technology to eliminate recruiters.
We’re using it to eliminate the work that keeps recruiters from recruiting.
Technology can help you identify 100 potential candidates.
It can research organizations, organize information, maintain pipelines, automate repetitive tasks and make you dramatically more productive.
But eventually somebody has to pick up the phone.
Someone has to establish credibility.
Someone has to ask the right question.
Someone has to recognize what motivates a candidate.
And someone has to turn:
“I’m not looking.”
into:
“Tell me more.”
That’s recruiting.
And that’s what we’ll teach you.
What You’ll Do
Working directly with Ed-Exec leadership and our senior recruiting team, you’ll gradually learn every component of executive search.
You’ll:
- Research organizations and talent markets nationwide
- Identify highly qualified passive candidates
- Use AI and recruiting technology to accelerate sourcing and research
- Become highly proficient with LinkedIn, databases and advanced online research
- Conduct targeted candidate outreach
- Spend meaningful time speaking directly with professionals
- Learn how to engage candidates who aren’t actively looking
- Conduct candidate screens and interviews
- Understand candidate motivation, compensation and career goals
- Develop and maintain candidate relationships
- Manage multiple search pipelines
- Present opportunities effectively and honestly
- Learn how to assess fit beyond what’s written on a résumé
- Eventually manage executive searches from initial research through successful placement
Who We’re Looking For
We’re primarily interested in someone with 2+ years of professional Talent Acquisition or corporate recruiting experience.
You may currently be a:
Talent Acquisition Specialist, Talent Acquisition Partner, Corporate Recruiter, Recruiter, Senior Recruiter or someone performing a similar internal recruiting function.
Previous education recruiting or executive search experience is not required.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Already understands the fundamentals of recruiting
- Is exceptionally comfortable with technology
- Is excited about AI and emerging recruiting tools
- Can learn new systems quickly
- Is naturally curious and resourceful
- Enjoys researching and finding people
- Is comfortable calling someone they’ve never spoken with before
- Communicates confidently and professionally
- Is organized and capable of managing multiple priorities
- Can work independently in a virtual environment
- Is competitive without needing someone constantly looking over their shoulder
- Wants to become exceptionally good at recruiting
Most importantly, you should genuinely enjoy talking to people.
Because despite all the technology available to us, executive recruiting remains a relationship business.
Build a Career — Not Just Take Another Recruiting Job
Our goal isn’t to hire someone to source résumés for us forever.
We want to develop another Executive Recruiter.
As you learn the business, you’ll take on increasingly sophisticated searches, build relationships throughout the education sector and develop your own reputation and professional network.
Your responsibility will grow.
Your independence will grow.
And your compensation can grow substantially with it.
Experienced recruiters at Ed-Exec have historically earned $100,000+ annually, with compensation structured around base salary, commissions, bonuses, incentives and individual production.
Work From Anywhere. Be Part of a Real Team.
This is a fully remote / work-from-home position.
We provide flexibility, but we also expect accountability.
Our recruiters operate independently, but nobody operates alone.
You’ll communicate regularly with Ed-Exec leadership and other recruiters, collaborate on searches, share information and learn from people who have been doing this successfully for years.
We’re looking for someone who wants the freedom of working virtually without giving up the mentorship, camaraderie and professional development that comes from being part of an experienced recruiting team.
Why Ed-Exec?
Because there are plenty of recruiting jobs.
There aren’t many opportunities to join an established boutique search firm, specialize in a national marketplace, work directly with experienced executive recruiters and learn how to become a true headhunter.
If you’re already good at Talent Acquisition but feel like you’re ready for something more challenging, more entrepreneurial and ultimately more rewarding, we’d like to hear from you.
To Apply
Please send your résumé in confidence along with a brief introduction describing your Talent Acquisition or recruiting experience.
Vincent Scaramuzzo, vincent@ed-exec.com
President
Ed-Exec, Inc.