Mark James, CPC

Current

Founder and President at Hire Consulting Services, LLC

Past

Vice President at Centennial, Inc.
Senior Vice President at The Angus Group
Director of Sales - National Accounts at Bayer Corporation (AGFA Imaging Division)

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Mark James, CPC’s Summary

Mark James is a Certified Personnel Consultant and the President and Founder of Hire Consulting Services, LLC in San Diego, CA. He has been providing career coaching and executive recruiting services for over 19 years.

Previous to starting HCS, he served as Senior Vice President of Recruiting at The Angus Group, the oldest and one the most respected retained search firms in Cincinnati, OH. In 2002, Mark formed an ongoing strategic partnership with Centennial, Inc., another respected Cincinnati search firm, where he created and developed a very successful career transition coaching practice for senior executives and professionals.

During his early career spanning over 15 years, he held several sales and marketing management positions, including 7 years with the Agfa Photo Division of Bayer Corporation, in addition to Management Recruiters, Polaroid Corporation, Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group, The Gallo Winery and United Parcel Service.

For the last 7 years, he has been the host and facilitator of the monthly ExecuNet Networking Meetings for executives in career transition in Cincinnati, San Diego and Irvine, CA. He is also an online moderator and facilitator for ExecuNet's Networking Forum and the Consulting Executive Roundtable.

Mark has served on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance from 2006-2008. He has a successful blog, Career Catalyst and been published in several news articles, books and newsletters, conducted numerous seminars, career workshops and public speaking events.

For more information:
San Diego, CA: 760-230-4301
Cincinnati, OH: 513-708-4112
mjames@HireConsultant.com
www.HireConsultant.com

Mark James, CPC’s Specialties:

Retained Executive Search and Recruiting
Career Transition Coaching for Middle to Senior Level Executives

Mark James, CPC’s Experience

Founder and President

Hire Consulting Services, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)

HCS Career Coaching: We excel in coaching business professionals and executives who are currently in career transition or planning to make a career change. Our Career Coaching Process is a collaborative one. We work as partners to define your skills and competencies and develop a strategy to conduct a professional job search campaign. Our common goal is to find the right company that values your talents. Every meeting, discussion and phone call is made with the singular purpose of helping you discover the keys and utilize the tools to help you secure a more fulfilled and productive career path.

HCS Executive Recruiting: We partner with successful and growing companies that need a competitive recruiting edge to enable them to find, assess, and hire great talent. Our Search Process helps client companies build strong teams and leaders. We accomplish this together by increasing interview and hiring accuracy. We adhere to the Highest Recruiting Industry Ethical Standards.
Vice President

Centennial, Inc.

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

Created and developed Centennial's Career Transition Coaching services.
Senior Vice President

The Angus Group

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )

Managed all sales and marketing reatined search and recruitment of management professionals for privately held and publicly traded corporations on a local, regional and national scope.
Director of Sales - National Accounts

Bayer Corporation (AGFA Imaging Division)

(Public Company; BAY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

1989 — 1996 (7 years )

Directed and launched new product introducitons into national food, drug and wholesale distributors.

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Mark James, CPC’s Groups:

Host and Facilitator for the ExecuNet Networking Monthly Meetings in San Diego and Irvine CA
Board of Directors 2006-2008 San Diego Proffessional Coaches Alliance - SDPCA
NAPS (National Association of Personnel Services)
Member - San Diego Venture Group
Member - Corporate Directors Forum - San Diego
Kennedy Directory of Retained Executive Recruiters
Rite Honored Recruiter - www.RiteSite.com