Expert executive search firm, Keynote Search, strives to change the recruitment process through advanced processes

The Silicon Review

In the competitive world we live in today, and it is imperative for businesses to have good employees. Productive employees bring about a positive change in the way businesses are carried out and contribute immensely to the growth of the business. However, finding the right employees that match the skill level and productivity a company is looking for can be a challenging task. This is where executive search firms come into the picture. Executive search firms play an important role in connecting employers with the right candidates and helping further their business objectives. Keynote Search is one search firm that stands apart from other recruitment agencies due to its attention to detail and expertise

Keynote Search was built to address the weaknesses in traditional executive search and recruitment. Co-Founders James and Donna Baker relocated to Ottawa from London, England as part of a team to launch a global recruitment business in Ottawa. After achieving incredible success and spending more than a decade in the industry, they viewed the industry as broken. They were often at odds with the metric driven, non-human approach to the business. Recruitment and the people involved had become commoditized. This simply did not work for the Bakers, and thus Keynote Search was born! Using its advanced search processes, the agency found and developed a team of experts that work together to help you with your search needs. Its leadership team is focused on ensuring that clients receive concierge-level service each time they engage Keynote Search. Keynote Search has a key group of experts in their practice areas to lead to its success. It strives to provide an environment that fosters professional development, continuous learning and community engagement.

Keynote Search serves clients from varying fields

Construction Companies

Managing a team is no easy task. When it comes to operating within the construction industry, a whole new layer of complications can amplify the need for effective hiring. Unique challenges such as securing permits, coordinating building teams and procuring the right equipment and materials are just a few tasks faced by executives in this field. Let Keynote Search help you achieve the optimal performance, and retain the best possible workers and maintain a smooth standard of operations. With its full-service, all-inclusive executive search and recruitment solution, Keynote Search makes it easier to find those who deserve and are capable of leading your latest endeavors. The key? Retention and support. Not only does it strive to successfully place recommended candidates, but also work closely with you to ensure their integration is streamlined, addressing any concerns along the way. With a meticulous focus on background, marketable skills and personality during its vetting process, Keynote Search prides itself on sourcing the finest figureheads for your construction operations. Not only that, but it also delivers comprehensive executive coaching to ensure everyone gets along and works well together, helping you put hammer to nail and make real progress

Technology & Knowledge-based companies

Driving innovation, daring to do new things, and developing breakthrough products and services takes work – and people. Those people need to be prepared from the outset with not only optimal skillsets but a real team spirit. Tech companies, from SaaS to IT and others, need to know they can count on their employees to deliver their very best – especially when respective markets are flooded with competitors.

That’s why you can count on Keynote Search. It is all about bringing people together to deliver greater results as the best teams they can be, made possible by its technology-enhanced executive search and post-placement services. Keynote Search make great results happen by listening, observing, and getting to know the individuals it pitches to you as suitable candidates, eliminating any guesswork and providing business owners with a guarantee of success.

Healthcare and Life Sciences

The world has never been in a more desperate need for effective, responsive healthcare teams. From early-stage drug research and development to full-scale manufacturing to hospital operations and management the world has never been in a more desperate need for new and innovated medicines and responsive healthcare systems. Without the right executives in place, your organization can easily be left with an inconclusive diagnosis .The speed at which new therapeutics are coming to market and the profound and transformative convergence of technology and healthcare has positioned its life sciences and healthcare team as a leading recruiter of biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare executives. Keynote Search believes in empowering your team with supportive, genuine and experienced leaders. It focuses on those who understand the ecosystems of operational challenges from accessing capital to sourcing mission critical talent culminating with the experience in bringing safe and effective, medicines to market.

It’s time to do more than simply perform an executive search; let’s maximize the performance of your team and delivers the best services possible to your clients.

Meet the Leader behind the Success of Keynote Search

James Baker is the CEO and Co-Founder of Keynote Search. With 20 years of experience in the industry, James has successfully completed hundreds of executive searches on behalf of clients looking to upgrade or build out their executive leadership teams .As the leader and figure head of the executive search team at Keynote Search, James has bolstered the company’s growth to most recently being named as one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies by the Globe & Mail Report on Business in 2021. Previously under James’ leadership Keynote Search was named Best New Business in 2016 from the Ottawa Board of Trade, #1 on Ottawa’s Fastest Growing Companies List by the Ottawa Business Journal in 2018 and #4 in 2019. James has also been recognized for his innovative approach to executive search and industry leadership. He has earned his Forty Under 40 award, Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year award from the City of Ottawa in 2018, and was named Executive Search CEO of the Year in the 2021 Canadian Business Awards. James prides himself on building the Keynote Search team with the best professionals in the industry and plays a key role in their success. From a community perspective James leads a number of philanthropic initiatives for Keynote Search as well as personally sits as the Co-Chair of the Talent Committee and Board Member for the Ottawa Board of Trade and is an active fundraiser for a number of organizations including 24h Tremblant and the CHEO Foundation. James is also an active speaker, moderator and host for a number of industry conferences, webinars, and panels and presents the latest trends in executive search and talent landscape in North America.