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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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Your Journey to Success...& then to Significance

Published: Jun 27, 2018 8:15 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1617
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational, Productivity  |  Tags: Recruiting

And why its so Important you embark on that Journey Today! 2018 is going to prove to be a banner year for many of us. Yes the economy is picking up and the unemployment for most major groups are at r...

Improving Search Quality and See a 3-5x Billings Increase: The Critical Importance of YOUR Job Order to Placement Ratio - (JO/PL)

Published: Jun 6, 2018 7:55 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1545
Category: Expert Advice, Productivity  |  Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Job Orders, Clients, Search, Hiring

The Quality of Searches you work on has the single greatest impact on a desk or firm. If you are taking low quality searches and have a high JO/PL ratio you are working on a large number of searches...

The 7 Best Practices of the Top Recruiting Analytics Coaches

Published: May 30, 2018 7:44 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1563
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Recruiting, Placement, Marketing

Managing a recruiting team can be tough. From attracting talent and bringing them through an interview process and convincing talent to take your job to onboarding and training them so rookies can g...

PART 2 How the World’s Top Billers – Bill Significantly More and Work Significantly Less. And you can too!

Published: Apr 26, 2018 6:56 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1667
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational, Productivity, Recruiting  |  Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Placement, Clients, Search, Hiring, Sales

An Introduction to the Quantum Leap Theorems Recruiting (Selling) to YOUR Zebra In a block buster business best seller that came out a few years ago Selling to Zebras: How to Close 90% of the Busin...

PART 1 How the World’s Top Billers – Bill Significantly More and Work Significantly Less. And you can too!

Published: Mar 29, 2018 6:18 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1522
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational, Productivity, Recruiting  |  Tags: Recruiting, Search, Hiring, Sales

An Introduction to the Quantum Leap Theorems In a Pinnacle Society meeting a few years ago, we invited Patrick Sylvester President of Bannister International to be our guest speaker. Pinnacle is a c...

The 2018 Guide to Eliminating Turndowns and Fall Offs:

Published: Jan 30, 2018 4:05 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1454
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting  |  Tags: Recruiting, Placement, Clients, Hiring

The steps that completely gets rid of them and increases your worth in the eyes of your clients! They are the enemies of every recruiter: turndowns and falloffs. And theyre on the rise everywhere. I h...

The Making of a Million Dollar Producer How I cashed in over 10 million in personal production in 10 years

Published: Dec 28, 2017 10:03 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1563
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational  |  Tags: Recruiting, Staffing, Sales

One of the most frequent questions I get asked by those in the recruiting and staffing industry is how I achieved a million dollars in yearly production on a desk and more importantly, how I stayed th...

10 steps to Achieving Your Life Dreams in 2018

Published: Nov 26, 2017 9:24 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1663
Category: Expert Advice, Motivational  |  Tags: Recruiting, Staffing, Search, Hiring

Its that time of year again, where all of us start to think of setting goals for next year. We are looking at what we want to do with our business as well as our personal life. If you are like most ...

Changing your Game with Recruiting Analytics

Published: Sep 28, 2017 6:02 PM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 2061
Category: Expert Advice, Recruiting, Technology  |  Tags: Recruiting, Placement, Marketing, Clients

In God we Trust. All others must bring Data!W. Edward Deming When I first got into the recruiting game, I wanted to fully understand how big billers got that way and how big offices got even bigger. ...

Working Smarter, Not Harder!

Published: Mar 18, 2014 1:42 AM
By Jon Bartos  |  Viewed: 1508
Category: Expert Advice  |  Tags: Business Development, Contingency, Recruiting, Job Orders, Placement, Marketing, Clients, Search

Effective 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 recruite...

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