"A significant component in achieving the highly motivated organization is the recruitment process itself, which if it to serve its purpose, must screen as much for drive, energy and ambition as it does for intellectual capabilities and technical skill."
Q & A with Jennifer Colosi
What roles and what industry search experience do you have?
- Chief Financial Officer, private equity fund backed energy, (San Francisco)
- Vice President Finance, fast growing solar energy, (San Francisco)
- Vice President Finance/CFO, super fast growing on line games, (Silicon Valley)
- Divisional Chief Financial Officer worldwide manufacturing (several mid west locations)
- Chief Financial Officer, significant family office (Silicon Valley)
- Vice President Finance, for a rapidly growing, technology company (Silicon Valley)
- Director Internal Audit—for a large public manufacturing (Mid West)
- Corporate Controller— professional services/technology company (San Francisco)
- Controllers, manufacturing (Mid West and South East)
- Data Analytics Senior Leader, private equity (San Francisco)
- Assistant Controller, manufacturing (Mid West)
- Director Customer Service, $1billion division of a very large public company
- Human Resources, manufacturing (Mid West)
How does Colosi Associates identify candidates?
Network: Current and former clients and candidates help us identify and approach potential candidates. Candidates are confident that we represent high quality clients and attractive opportunities.
Professional association involvement: Colosi is well-networked via active contribution to professional organizations.
Research: for every search we conduct research to identify A-Players of interest: executives in targeted companies in targeted geographies, for example.
What’s different about Colosi Associates?
We commit to only a few assignments at once. The result for you is the shortest time possible to presenting a slate of fully evaluated, well-qualified candidates.
Do you do searches for human resources, engineering, marketing, sales?
We only accept assignments we are confident we can complete within your definition of success. When we can reach non-financial candidates quickly and we understand your organization’s story very well, on a case by case basis, we may take on search assignments outside our financial officer focus.
What about other services?
We can act as your internal project manager on any/all hiring processes: develop recruiting plans/candidate sourcing strategies, develop appropriate questions for specific interview team members, references etc.