How Jay Gaines & Company is Different

How Jay Gaines & Company is Different

Our clients tell us we approach executive search differently. These differences taken together, result in our building enduring relationships with our clients that produce more effective and more efficient searches.

According to our clients:

We treat clients as partners, not merely as customers, engaging them in challenging dialogue.
Working with us is open, interesting and intense. Universally, clients view us as high touch.
Matching a candidates’ personality with our client’s culture is an obsession in our firm. We bring to bear hard-earned knowledge, experience, insight and perseverance to this challenging aspect of search.
We listen; we are willing to challenge clients’ assumptions, test different approaches, and ask clients to consider executives they might not otherwise include in the candidate pool. These approaches often lead to searches being filled with individuals who will succeed over the long term and provide our clients competitive advantage.
We know that there are no perfect candidates, people with all strengths and no weaknesses. So we provide clients balanced, 360-degree candidate assessments that result in penetrating interview discussions. These discussions lead everyone involved in the search - client, candidate and search consultant - to more realistically project how this match will work over time.
We are very thorough. We debate internally, compare notes, attack our assumptions and cross check candidates’ references and reputations until we and the client thoroughly know the candidate and how he or she will fit into the client’s organization.
We build long-term relationships with clients, as well as candidates and industry insiders. This gives us a unique, in-depth understanding and insight into the industries we serve and allows us to produce better candidates more quickly.
Search industry experts and our clients describe us as thought leaders in executive search.