Debra BennettFounder · Senior Recruiting Partner
AI-enhanced recruiting · Human-led decisions
Technology widens the search.Experience protects the hire.
Senior recruiters bring market judgment, candidate calibration, and negotiation experience. Aiden, VSG’s Fully Automated AI Consultant, keeps the market moving between conversations. Every candidate is vetted and prescreened twice before reaching your desk — each one delivered with a full fit intelligence brief.
Your search stays senior-led from intake through accepted offer.
Sommer CoxSenior Recruiting Consultant
Jim BeaudrySenior Recruiting Consultant
AidenFully Automated AI Consultant
98% fill rateSearches completed
100% repeat clientsRelationships retained
Senior recruiter ownedFrom intake to offer
Continuous AI supportMarket coverage keeps moving
Meet the hiring consultants
The people—and intelligence—working your market.
Each consultant has a defined role. Together, they give your search experienced judgment, continuous coverage, and one accountable VSG team.
Founder
Atlanta, Georgia
Debra Bennett
Founder · Senior Recruiting Partner
A multi-award-winning executive recruiter who built VSG’s AI-enhanced search practice. Debra works directly with hiring leaders and knows what moves senior candidates forward—or quietly takes them out of consideration.
- Award-winning recruiter
- AI Search Certified
- Top 1% connected on LinkedIn
What Debra leadsExecutive and leadership searches across industries, from entry level through the C-suite.
Senior Consultant
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Sommer Cox
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Sommer turned a 90-day contract into five years with one client—the kind of trust earned through consistency and follow-through. Her agency and national corporate hiring background gives clients a calm, practical search partner.
- Agency and corporate hiring experience
- Long-term client relationships
- National recruiting perspective
What Sommer leadsProduction, operations, fleet, warehouse, sales, and searches requiring organized hiring at scale.
Managing Director
Portland, Maine
Jim Beaudry
Senior Recruiting Consultant · Managing Director
Jim is the recruiter recruiters call for advice. His nineteen years placing talent into staffing and recruiting firms gives hiring leaders a direct market read and a search partner who understands the business behind the seat.
- 19 years in staffing and recruiting
- Top 1% connected on LinkedIn
- Recruiting leadership expertise
What Jim leadsRecruiter, recruiting leadership, staffing, sales, and business-development searches.
AI Consultant
Always working the market
Aiden
Fully Automated AI Consultant
Aiden is trained on VSG’s own search process. He reads the intake, helps build the search specification, maps the market, sources candidates, and keeps the search moving while your senior recruiter handles judgment, interviews, and client communication.
- Continuous market mapping
- Search-specific candidate sourcing
- Built around VSG recruiter standards
What Aiden leadsContinuous sourcing, structured screening support, and market intelligence behind every VSG search.
Three ways to engage
The search model should match the stakes.
We will tell you plainly which structure fits the role, urgency, and market—and when a simpler option is enough.
Contingent Search
No upfront fee. You pay when VSG makes the hire.
- Manager and director searches
- Speed and flexibility
- Full candidate vetting
Executive Search
A focused, high-touch process for leadership hires where calibration and discretion matter.
- Targeted candidate slate
- Full process management
- Market intelligence throughout
Retained Search
Dedicated research and priority execution from the first market map through accepted offer.
- Comprehensive market mapping
- Dedicated research resources
- Priority search execution
One team. 1,077 recruiting desks.
VSG remains your single point of contact and quality gate, backed by a national network of independent specialists who collaborate across niches and regions.
Before you engage
Clear answers before the search begins.
Will I work with the consultant I meet?
Yes. A senior VSG recruiter stays involved from intake and calibration through interviews, compensation discussions, and the accepted offer.
Does Aiden replace the recruiter?
No. Aiden expands market coverage and supports sourcing, screening structure, and market mapping. A senior recruiter applies judgment and reviews every candidate before presentation.
Can a boutique firm cover a specialized or national search?
Yes. VSG combines its senior recruiting team and AI-supported process with the Top Echelon network of 1,077 recruiting desks while remaining your single point of contact.
Your next hire
Put the full VSG team on the search.
Tell us about the open seat, what success looks like, and where the search is getting stuck. We will recommend the right engagement model and next step.