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People focused on performance hitting their potential. That has been Jon’s life work. As many have introduced him, Jon is the quintessential thought leader, trainer, speaker and consultant on all aspects of Human Capital, Talent Management and Performance Management. After a 14-year career in the Supply Chain Technology, Jon realized the strong demand for talent and for companies who could deliver high performing talent. He then purchased a Management Recruiters International franchise in November of 1998 and away he went. Jon achieved industry-leading success as one of an elite group of executive recruiters who billed over $1 million annually while building a multi-million dollar top 10 Office. In a 10year period (1999–2009), he cashed in over $10 million in personal production and established JSI as a top 10% executive search and staffing firm winning 17 international awards in the MRINetwork. Today Jon still works a desk. As of today, he has billed over 24 million in personal production since 1999. Jon sold his recruiting firm in 2012 to a large healthcare consulting firm. After a three-year stint as President and CEO, in 2015 – he started a new firm, focused on mutually committed search and contract staffing - Global Performance Search. After growing it to 7 offices in 5 different countries, focusing on Warehouse Automation and Renewable Energies, Jon merged GPS with SearchPath Global in 2020 and is currently their President and Managing Director of the fastest growing Franchise System in the world today. Today SearchPath Global has 45 offices in 8 different countries – growing at over 100% per year. In 2008 Jon founded the industries lead performance analytics tool - Revenue Performance Management. The RPM Dashboard is an Analytics and Developmental tool that focuses on taking staffing and recruiting professionals on a path to achieving their Performance Potential. Period. Currently the RPM Dashboard is used by over 500 companies worldwide to help them achieve. www.rpm-usa.com. Jon has personally coached over 500 business owners and executive leaders to help them achieve their personal and business vision. Jon can be reached at 513-515-1267 or jbartos@searchpath.com. Visit https://www.searchpath.com

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Part 1 out of 3: Money-Recruiting A Simple Guide on how to make it rain cash by Using Metrics in your Recruiting Firm

Published: Jul 8, 2019 2:31 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 2180
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Recruiting

A 2004 bestseller book by Michael Lewis and a 2011 blockbuster movie starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, Moneyball is the true story of how the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball team became a competitive...

From Contingent to Retained: The Five Steps in Developing your Value Proposition of Going to Retained

Published: Jun 12, 2019 2:27 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1613
Category: Expert Advice, Productivity  |  Tags: Interviewing, Contingency, Candidates, Recruiting, Sourcing, Clients, Search, Hiring, Sales, Jobs

Anytime someone is looking to make the change from Contingent search to Retained search, they need to really start by looking at the business relationship from the clients viewpoint. Why in the world...

Part 3 out of 5: From Contingent to Retained: Hiring High Performers The 5 Mission Critical Questions to Ask to WIN their business!

Published: Apr 1, 2019 2:11 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1469
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Interviewing, Candidates, Recruiting, Clients, Hiring, Sales

When trying to win business, just getting the point of having a conversation is 10x harder than it used to be. With communication technology choices and generational technology preferences does not h...

From Contingent to Retained: Part II

Published: Feb 27, 2019 1:57 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1573
Category: Columns, Expert Advice  |  Tags: Interviewing, Recruiting, Leadership, Clients, Hiring

Hiring High Performers Mis-hires The Costliest Problem Your Clients are suffering with Most hiring managers and human resource professionals regularly fail to pick the right candidate when hiring a m...

From Contingent to Retained: A 5 Part Series

Published: Feb 6, 2019 1:49 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1657
Category: Columns, Expert Advice  |  Tags: Candidates, Placement, Clients, Search, Hiring

Why Mutually Committed Relationships are the only ones that Work! What if I could show you way by simply changing the relationship you have with clients, you will be able to make triple the placement...

Want to make a substantial positive impact on your life? Start goal setting!

Published: Nov 30, 2018 9:11 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1533
Category: Expert Advice, Productivity  |  Tags: Jobs

For most people, goal setting takes place at the end of the calendar year. Its not only a good time to reflect on what weve accomplished in our personal and professional lives, but it also allows us t...

Strategies for Success in a Candidate-Driven Market

Published: Oct 15, 2018 8:49 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1364
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Job Orders, Placement, Marketing, LinkedIn, Clients, Search, Hiring, Jobs

As recruiters, we pride ourselves on our ability to clearly understand our clients talent needs. We partner with them to find, attract, and hire the hidden A Players in their industry. But today, recr...

The Principles of Great Business Development Calls

Published: Aug 30, 2018 8:42 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1539
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational, Productivity  |  Tags: Business Development, Contingency, Recruiting, Job Orders, Placement, Marketing, Clients, Search

Great business development and marketing is the most important aspect of being a big biller. Sure, finding the perfect candidate for an open search assignment is an exciting moment in any recruiters d...

Recruiting Analytics for Dummies

Published: Aug 15, 2018 8:36 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 2081
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Social Media, Candidates, Recruiting, Marketing, Clients

When recruiters bring up the topics of Metrics or Recruiting Analytics most of the time I get a deer in the headlights look. Metrics or Analytics do not have to be a topic that everyone runs away fr...

Recruiting Analytics for Dummies

Published: Jul 26, 2018 8:31 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 2231
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Social Media, Candidates, Recruiting, Marketing, Clients

When recruiters bring up the topics of Metrics or Recruiting Analytics most of the time I get a deer in the headlights look. Metrics or Analytics do not have to be a topic that everyone runs away fr...

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