“I would say I was very pleased with [Kaye/Bassman Academic Medicine]. I wanted to approach the task as a close relationship, and by setting up weekly sessions throughout the process to see where we all stood helped keep the search top of mind for both parties, which ensured getting the right person for the position. Some of the most beneficial things included the pre-work that the team did by getting a good sense of the important elements of who we were looking for, not just credentials and experience, but also personal strengths, motivations, and opportunities for improvement. The profiles you created based off these conversations were some of the most valuable tools much more tailored for this search. This process allowed us the opportunity to get the right “person on the bus” for this position and avoided presenting candidates to me that were not worth my time reviewing.”

Bryan Alsip, Executive Vice President, CMO University Health System

“Our successful relationship with Kaye/Bassman is a partnership of trust. It comes down to those intangible qualities that are hard to define but vitally important.”

Michelle Lieb, Vice President, Human Resources - Pepper Construction Company

“The stakes are particularly high when looking for a new company president. Our relationship with Kaye/Bassman helped us go into the search with confidence in our abilities to get it right.”

Steve Cannon, Senior Vice President, Human Resources – Manhattan Construction Company

“Having a reliable recruiting partner with deep connections in our industry and an understanding of our culture helps us move forward and continue to grow.”

Rich Lamb, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer – Webcor Builders

“In my position as Department Chair of Surgery at the Nemours Children’s Clinic, I learned about Eric through his successful recruitment of two pediatric neurosurgeons at the local Children’s hospital. As we were unsuccessful with a former recruiting firm, we reached out to Mr. Dickerson to see if he can assist in a successful recruitment of several key surgical areas in our organization. I was immediately impressed with Mr. Dickerson in his organized approach and ambitious attitude in doing what was necessary to get the job done. We have been very pleased with Eric and he has been successful in filling many of our positions. We continue to work with him currently on additional faculty needs. ”

Gary D. Josephson, MD, MBA, FACS, FAAP, FACPE Chairman; Department of Surgery Nemours Children’s Clinic Associate Professor Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Affiliate Professor University of South Florida College of Medicine

“Recruiting great faculty is integral to having a successful academic Department of Surgery. Certain surgical subspecialties are in limited supply and are difficult to recruit because of various supply and demand issues. With that in mind we made an arrangement to work with Elaine Auerbach from Kaye/Bassman Associates to assist us in hiring additional faculty with Trauma/Critical Care and Burn Surgery expertise for Upstate University Hospital. Elaine spent a significant amount of time learning about our recruitment needs and helped us to recruit the surgical expertise we needed to develop a critical mass of faculty in this area. Within a few weeks she identified a significant number of potential faculty candidates. We worked with her to screen potential candidates and bring forth only best quality individuals for the position(s) we needed to fill. In summary, Elaine’s ability to identify and recruit helped us to meet critical work force issues we were facing in a timely fashion.”

Robert N. Cooney, MD, FACS, FCCM, Professor & Chairman Department of Surgery, State University of New York at Upstate Medical Center Syracuse, New York

“Elaine was head and shoulders above the other recruiters I worked with this interview season in several important ways. She is intelligent, curious, thorough, insightful, and knowledgeable. She had personally met the leadership and she had seen the facility with her own eyes. She asked probing questions that compelled me to articulate my rationale for the career decisions I had made so far. She made incredibly astute inferences about the way I think based on dry biographical data. I found her to be a gifted observer, a good listener, and a real student of human psychology. I felt prepared for many of her questions, but I remember struggling with a few that cut to the core of my convictions and assumptions. It was an invaluable exercise. It made me a better and more confident interviewee. That initial experience shaped my expectations for the rest of the interview trail, but I’m afraid everybody else fell woefully short.”

Bogachan Sahin, M.D., Ph.D., Cerebrovascular Fellow Department of Neurology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine Currently Faculty at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

“I found Jeff Wittenberg to be open, honest and informative in every discussion. He walked me through each process, kept me up to date on all issues and opportunities. It was a pleasure to work with Jeff and his team.”

Bob Bedrich, Vice President/Division Manager at Cadence McShane Construction Company

“I retained Jeff and his team at Kaye/Bassman International to be my exclusive executive search partner. It was one of the most rewarding business relationships both professionally and personally that I have experienced in my career. Under Jeff’s leadership and tutelage his team delivered results in a very professional manner that made me look forward to working with them on future assignments. Jeff’s leadership imprint was all over this team! He became a trusted business partner and confidant!”

Jim Nahrgang, SVP, Human Capital Strategy at Barton Malow Company

“We have used Marty several times for our critical searches. He always comes through with a number of high quality individuals that we can interview and select from, resulting in great performers for our firm. He also has high integrity and is honest when he thinks a candidate is not the right fit for our needs.”

John Assunto, Executive Management Team at BN Builders