Our Search Process
Our goal is to build long-term partnerships with employers to resolve hiring challenges by providing the best candidates in the marketplace—not just the best candidates who are looking for a position. We work to place the most qualified person in the role, and the most qualified person is often not in a job search.
Throughout the process, we facilitate open lines of communication between our clients and candidates. Timing is essential, so we keep you informed and advised throughout the process to ensure successful conclusion of the search assignment.
What is The Pursell Method™?
Developed by Stacy Pursell, founder and CEO of The VET Recruiter, The Pursell Method™ is a consultative recruiting process built specifically for the Animal Health, Animal Nutrition and Veterinary Industries.
It’s not just filling jobs… it’s about making connections, telling a story, elevating a brand, and making long-term hires that truly fit.
In a market overwhelmed by noise, generic job ads, and transactional recruiting, The Pursell Method™ helps your organization stand out. The VET Recruiter attracts the kind of talent that aligns with your mission, culture, and vision.
The search process used by our recruiters has proven to serve as an effective means to identify, deliver and place high-caliber talent with our client’s organizations.
Our process has proven to benefit candidates as well, by involving them in an effective system that walks them through the entire search process from first time introductions to offer negotiations and ultimately to successfully resigning their current position and beginning employment with our client’s organization.
The Pursell Method™
Our step by step recruiting process
can be summed up in these steps:
Coordinate the job description and alignment with our client’s parameters.
Interview the hiring manager for clarification of needs.
Research to locate the logical talent pool.
Check our existing databases for leads.
Source to narrow our research results.
Recruit.
Qualify candidates by initial telephone interview against the necessary job essentials.
Sift the potential finalists from the wishful thinkers, window shoppers, tire kickers, and underqualified.
Perform in-depth interviews with potential finalists.
Reference check performance if requested by client. (Most clients prefer to perform their own reference checks.)
Work with spousal placement, if necessary.
Arrange and coordinate the interview schedule.- Prepare and counsel nominees for interviews by spelling out company needs, culture, organizational fit, hiring authority, personality, etc.
Debrief candidates after each interview, answering questions, etc.
Debrief client hiring authority after each interview, assessing strengths, weaknesses, incompatibilities, etc.
Coordinate with hiring manager on possible offers to be made and set the stage for acceptance.
Participate with company in providing necessary information required for negotiating an acceptable offer.
Reconcile any differences with successful candidate to smooth way for offer acceptance.
Assist successful candidate in cleanly terminating current position.
Follow up after placement to assure new employee integration.
Why The Pursell Method™ works?
The Pursell Method™ blends nearly 30 years of recruiting strategies specific to Animal Health, Animal Nutrition and Veterinary Industries:
- Attracts values-aligned candidates
- Helps hiring managers articulate a compelling employer brand
- Reduces costly hiring mistakes through deep alignment
- Streamlines the hiring process from outreach to onboarding
- Helps clients retain the talent they hire
The Pursell Method™ search and recruitment process used by our recruiting team has proven to serve as an effective means to identify, deliver and place high-caliber talent with our client’s organizations.