Built Velocity Search Group
Created an executive-search firm serving hiring companies, candidates, and recruiting partners.
Founder · Senior Recruiting Partner
Debra Bennett
Atlanta, Georgia · Executive Recruiter & Career Consultant
Work directly with the recruiter who evaluates talent for hiring companies every day—and knows what moves a strong candidate forward or quietly takes them out of consideration.
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Recruiter insight from the hiring side.Direct, honest guidance built around the decision in front of you.
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Built Velocity Search GroupFounder of VSG’s executive and AI-enhanced search practice.
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Recruited the recruitersSixteen years evaluating talent inside the recruiting profession.
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Works the market nowCurrent hiring-side perspective—not recycled career advice.
Background & accomplishments
The experience behind Debra’s advice.
Debra’s perspective comes from more than twenty years making and influencing real hiring decisions—not from a career-coaching script.
What this means for you: your strategy is reviewed by someone who understands what hiring managers notice, question, and act on.
20+ years evaluating talent
Works across industries and career levels, from early-career professionals through the C-suite.
16 years recruiting recruiters
Evaluated professionals inside the recruiting industry itself—the people responsible for evaluating everyone else.
AIRS certified · 20K+ connections
Combines formal sourcing credentials with a substantial professional network and current market reach.
The perspective Debra brings
You get the truth behind the hiring decision.
Debra has spent more than twenty years in executive search across industries and career levels, from early-career professionals through the C-suite.
The person hearing your story understands how employers evaluate it.
Debra works with hiring companies, calibrates candidates, manages interviews, and helps close offers. She can see where your experience is strong, where the presentation creates confusion, and which next step is actually worth your time.
Her approach is not about reinventing you. It is about making your real experience easier for the right employer to understand.
“Debra Bennett makes magic happen. She has the talent, skills and experience to match the right candidate with the right opportunity.”Kirk Spencer · Director, Sales & Operations
What you can work on
Bring the part of your search that needs a recruiter’s eye.
Debra can work through one immediate decision or connect the full search into one deliberate strategy.
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Career direction & market position
Clarify the roles, level, and industries where your background makes the strongest case.
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Resume & leadership story
Identify what the employer needs to see and make your actual experience easier to evaluate.
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Interview strategy
Prepare for the company, the interviewer, the role, and the questions behind the questions.
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Offer & career decisions
Examine compensation, relocation, risk, growth, and what is reasonably worth discussing.
A direct working session
Bring the real situation. Leave with direction.
This is not a generic coaching script. The conversation starts with the role, resume, interview, offer, or decision creating the most friction now.
Share the context
Send the materials and explain what is happening, what you want, and where the search feels stuck.
Read it from the hiring side
Debra evaluates the evidence, the market, and how the employer is likely to interpret your story.
Choose the next move
Leave with specific language, priorities, and actions you can use immediately.
Work with Debra
Choose the engagement that fits the role.
Every search is run by Debra personally — not handed to a coordinator. Aiden works the market continuously in the background so the shortlist you see has already been screened by a recruiter.