Talent Market Diagnosis
Review title, compensation, geography, candidate availability, requirements, timeline, applicant goals, and budget before spending.
Independent Talent Acquisition Advisory · Atlanta + Nationwide
Talent strategy before the search starts.
I help employers diagnose hiring problems, position opportunities, build candidate-acquisition plans, improve application conversion, define qualification criteria, and measure what works.
30+ years in sales, management & recruiting
Atlanta-based
Nationwide advisory
Sales specialization through PowerSalesJobs
What I advise on
Make hiring a system, not a scramble.
The work sits between high-level talent strategy and practical campaign execution. You can use the advisory independently or connect it to a focused candidate-acquisition campaign.
Candidate Value Proposition
Clarify why the opportunity deserves attention and align the job message, expectations, compensation story, and employer proposition.
Channel Strategy
Plan the right mix of owned pages, search, job boards, social, referrals, niche sources, outbound sourcing, and sponsored media.
Hiring Funnel Optimization
Reduce friction across landing pages, job descriptions, mobile applications, forms, calls to action, tracking, and employer follow-up.
Candidate Criteria
Separate must-haves from preferred criteria, define knockout logic, and create a consistent agreed candidate profile.
Acquisition Analytics
Track source performance, applicant cost, conversion, pipeline quality, response speed, and optimization opportunities.
Advisory vs. recruiting
Recruiting fills a role. Talent acquisition improves the system behind the hire.
The first question should not always be “Where can we find candidates?” It should be “What will make the right candidates respond—and what will keep the hiring process from wasting that response?”
Typical advisory questions
- Is the role realistically positioned in the current market?
- Are the requirements unnecessarily shrinking the candidate pool?
- Is the compensation story clear and competitive?
- Which channels fit the role and geography?
- Where is the application funnel losing candidates?
- What should count as a campaign-qualified applicant?
- Which metrics should determine whether the campaign is working?
About the advisor
Sales hiring experience plus digital acquisition discipline.
I combine decades of sales, management, recruiting, and business-development experience with SEO, website strategy, copywriting, pay-per-click advertising, and data analysis.
That mix shapes an acquisition-oriented approach: define the market, improve the message, choose the channels, remove conversion friction, qualify consistently, and measure performance.
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Sales specialization
Need sales candidates, not just advisory?
PowerSalesJobs is the execution-focused sales talent acquisition platform. It supports sales job promotion, campaign planning, candidate acquisition, screening, and curated candidate workflows.
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Start with the problem
Before buying clicks or hiring a recruiter, pressure-test the hiring strategy.
Use the advisory framework to identify whether the role, offer, market, candidate profile, application process, and acquisition budget can support the hiring goal.