Recruitment research was devised about fifty years ago
to find candidates strictly for search firms. Search
firms would then present those candidates, generated
by recruitment research to their clients and collect
their exorbitant fee for the hire. In 1983, at an American
Management Association conference in Washington,
DC, General Electric claimed, "We use who the headhunter
uses...recruitment research". Since then our industry is being
addressed directly by hiring companies.
O'Donnell Staffing Research was founded on May 1, 1990. Our first location
was the second floor of an 1888 renovated schoolhouse in Itasca, Illinois, a
western suburb of Chicago. Originally, our services supported the efforts of
other recruitment research and executive search companies. In our early years,
approximately 90% of our clients were executive search firms seeking assistance
in finding excellent candidates. Currently, 95% of our clients are the hiring
companies and only 5% of our clients are executive search agencies. This is due
in part to hiring companies realizing that executive search is a costly, middle
process of finding viable candidates and they can go directly to the source of
candidates by utilizing O'Donnell Staffing Research.
| Fun Fact |
"What is with the red paper clip logo for O'Donnell Staffing Research?"
When we opened our doors in 1990, email was not as widely utilized as it is today. "Back in the day" we sent our brochures and candidate reports by
snail mail. We separated our reports by using a red paper clip. We chose red paper clips, since red has been market
researched as American's most popular color. Also, it was used as a marketing tool. When our clients separated our reports
and threw the red paper clips in their drawer or clip tray and used them again, it reminded them of O'Donnell Staffing
Research.
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