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Sales and Marketing Recruitment
Started in 2004, KAS Placement is a San Diego based sales and marketing recruitment firm. Our main placements are located both domestically and throughout the Canadian Provinces. KAS Placement also assists foreign clients who wish to break into the U.S. market via hiring sales or marketing professionals.
Some of the various levels of employees our San Diego recruiters headhunt for include executive level placements, vice presidential applicants, sales and marketing managers, senior marketing and business development experts all the way down to junior and entry-level applicants. Our executive staffing team works with nearly every industry and client vertical which encompasses, though is not limited to various types of finance including hedge funds, all types of insurance sales representatives, an assortment of different hardware sales, software, BPO (business process outsourcing - India), telecommunications, food and beverage, cosmetics, construction, engineering including CAD and specification software, educational software and services, leisure industries such as hotel and travel, printing and office supplies, healthcare, interior design, semiconductor and much more. Our San Diego recruiters work with both large, publicly traded companies and smaller, venture capital backed organizations.
Some of the various sales and marketing positions which our San Diego recruitment agency staffs are: new business development professionals, channel sales professionals, account managers for large clients, all types of sales engineering experts, print media professionals, television and radio marketing job applicants, and probably most prevalent, online and social media executives.
The Sales Headhunting Process of our San Diego Recruiters
Upon receiving a job specification from a client, our San Diego recruitment team begins with doing extensive research on our client, their market competition and the industries in which our clientele base would like to sell into. Our San Diego recruiters have successfully placed sales representatives who focus on selling to very specific niche industries including weather trading desks, derivative trading desks, day spas, large retail outlets such as Wal-Mart and Target, various types of electrical engineers and much more.
Depending on how specific the position in which we are recruited to headhunt in, our San Diego recruiters sometimes are required to look over hundreds of resumes prior to even calling and interviewing the sales or marketing professionals. There are certain things our staffing agents look for in a business development resume. These include sales revenue numbers, specific content so our San Diego recruitment team can immediately tell the applicant's background, quota achievement, a reliable employment past in which the candidate had stayed with his or her employers and much more.
When interviewing a sales professional, our San Diego recruiters seek out certain traits in the individuals including a confident, but friendly personality, a keen ability to describe his or her expertise within the business development field, a knowledge of the target industry in which our client is trying to sell into, solid cold calling and prospecting skills, good industry contacts, an ability to speak with C-level executive decision makers and more. If they meet all of our criteria, our San Diego recruiters pass the applicant on to our client.
The Marketing Staffing Initiatives of our San Diego Recruiters
In addition to focusing on sales, our San Diego headhunters are experts in marketing field. Therefore, we have opened a new division in our San Diego office to accommodate the growing demand for marketing professionals. Due to the fact that we do all of the KAS marketing in house, our San Diego recruiters are able to decipher which job applicants would a successful marketing professional.
Lately, our San Diego recruiters have seen an increased need for online marketing professionals. Due to the fact that we have in house recruiters who are also online marketing professionals, the recruitment division at KAS is able to help our clients find the person whom they need quite quickly and effectively. We know that online marketing is not easy. This is primarily due to the competitive landscape of online media, blogging, obtaining incoming anchor text links, writing search engine optimization pages and much more. To be successful at online marketing, a job applicant must have great writing skills, vast industry knowledge, and an ability to write very interesting articles which will grab the attention of potential customers. It is even better if our San Diego recruiters can find an employment applicant who already has a large following on Twitter.
Slowly but surely, online marketing is replacing cold calling. The major goal of online marketing is to get inbound clients to your web pages via them doing industry related Google searches. This is primarily done through obtaining inbound links to your website in conjunction to writing interesting and business related SEO pages. A few years ago, writing a simple three hundred page article stuffed with keywords and then leaving it to be was more than sufficient. Our San Diego Recruiters have quickly learned that this is no longer the key to online success. To make a Google friendly website is not an easy task nor does it take a month or two. As a matter of fact, depending on the current Google page rank of your website, obtaining a high ranking on Google could take up to a year or more.
Therefore, upon placing a marketing professional, our San Diego recruiters look for someone who has the stamina to compete at this complex game. Getting ranked by Google entails constant Twitter use, consistent updates to all pages of the website, an ability to cold call for anchor links, a top notch, interesting writing acumen, patience, perseverance and a drive to beat the competition. Second to frequent updates of the site with relevant, interesting content is the ability to obtain reputable links from other sites. For instance, if you are a hotel chain, gaining a link from a recruitment blog will not do much. Though, getting a link with anchor text from a hotel list is invaluable. However, if your marketing professional goes after irrelevant, banned by Google sites to obtain anchor text links, Google will swiftly penalize your site. To our San Diego recruiters this facet of search engine optimization can be compared to walking on eggshells. For this reason our headhunting team looks for a sales ability in each of our online marketing candidates.
Depending on the marketing professional, sometimes it could take months in order to obtain reputable incoming links with anchor text. Other sites will only link to your site if it is aesthetically pleasing, has great information and if they feel that directing their audience to your site will be helpful. This is the hardest part of online marketing. An online marketing expert will also know that Google cannot index websites programmed in flash. In order to obtain these links, it can take up to hundreds of email blasts and cold calls, most of which end up in rejection or an unanswered response. Our San Diego recruiters are very good at deciphering what employment applicants can successfully perform the aforementioned tasks.
Recruitment within the Major San Diego Industries
The San Diego recruiters at KAS Placement work in a myriad of different industries. Our San Diego Recruiters are able to work with almost 200,000 high-technology job employees who work at over a thousand companies throughout the greater San Diego. From what our Recruiters in San Diego have seen, there is currently major technology growth in the biomedical, software, telecommunications and security sectors. San Diego has nearly the largest and most comprehensive concentration of large biotech firms in the nation. Thus, our San Diego recruiters have more than 32,000 biotech jobs and employment openings at nearly five hundred companies.
In addition to being a hotspot for biotech firms, San Diego is driven by corporate revenue in agriculture, biotechnology/biosciences, computer sciences, manufacturing, defense-related manufacturing, financial and business services, ship repair, ship construction, software, telecom, and the hotel and leisure business.
Our Staffing Fees
The San Diego recruiters at KAS Placement work on both contingency and retained headhunting contracts. Our typical fees are 20% of the base salary of the employee whom we place. Any commission or bonuses given to the individual are between the corporation and the employee. KAS Placement does not receive additional compensation.
KAS Placement gives a prorated 30/60/90 recruitment guarantee. Therefore, after the employee has been with our client for more than thirty days, 1/3 of the fee is payable to our executive staffing team. After the employee has been with the client for sixty or more days, the second 1/3 of the fee is due, then after the employee has been with our client for over ninety days, the last installment is payable to our recruitment team.
If the employee does not work out, upon client request, KAS Placement will replace the individual. Once this happens, the 30/60/90 recruitment guarantee will reset. This scenario does not happen often as our recruiters boast an employee retention rate of 90%.
About KAS Placement
Initially named KS Consultation, KAS Placement was founded by Ken Sundheim in 2004. Due to a strong client loyalty and new clients coming in from around the United States and Canada, the San Diego recruitment quickly grew. Since its inception, KAS Placement has been profitable and remained in a growth mode in late 2007, 2008 and 2009. Our San Diego recruiters are some of the most dedicated individuals and are exceeding effective when it comes to the executive staffing process. The majority of our headhunters are trained in house and come from various corporate sales and marketing backgrounds. Also, KAS Placement hires recent college graduates from some of the top colleges in the nation.
Contact a San Diego Recruitment Specialist
Whether you are a job applicant seeking a new career move or are an employer looking to hire a sales or marketing professional, our San Diego recruiters are here to help. You can feel free to call 866.212.5140. If you prefer email, you can mail us directly at info@kasplacement.com. If you are a job applicant and wish to upload your resume in order to contact all our executive staffing agents, simply click on the link job seekers above. The headhunting team at KAS Placement looks forward to servicing all your recruitment needs.