Thoughts from our corporate clients, job candidates and transferees:
When I have an out-of-town recruit, I call Executive Arrangements in to assist. The area orientation services they provide to educate job candidates about the lifestyle in Cleveland are first class. I know my recruits are in good hands as their attention to detail is impeccable. They carefully match the interests and needs of the family with all that our region has to offer. And, the feedback they provide me, the recruiter, is very helpful.”
Executive Arrangements has quickly become a critical component of our overall talent attraction strategy at OMNOVA Solutions. Ensuring our newly recruited talent and their families can easily and successfully transition to NE Ohio is a top priority for us, and EA hits it out of the park each and every time! I continue to be impressed with the thoughtful, customized and impactful experiences they have coordinated for our employees and their families. Our new employees that have participated in these experiences arrive to us more engaged, committed and excited about joining our organization and community!”
Thank you for your contribution to wonderful weekends for (our two recent candidates). When I first moved to the area I did not take advantage of your service, but my wife Claire did, and I have been a believer ever since. Every chance I get, I tell everyone what a wonderful service you provide and recommend you highly.”
We use Executive Arrangements to engage talent beyond our company culture and help newcomers to connect with all that NE Ohio has to offer.”
Executive Arrangements has been a valued partner of American Greetings during the recruiting of several senior level candidates to join our world headquarters in Cleveland. They’ve successfully helped our candidates learn about all that Northeast Ohio has to offer via the very customized, personalized tours and connections they provide as a part of the itinerary. Our candidates have been impressed, and so are we!”
We’ve hired world-class engineers from all over the world. While our recruiting process is tailored specifically to the individual candidate, we rely on Executive Arrangements to introduce Cleveland. The emotional aspects of a move to a new city are as important as the professional opportunity itself; EA goes to great lengths to ensure new hires and their families are connected, informed, and included.”
I have had the great fortune to partner with Executive Arrangements on some critical executive relocations to the Cleveland market. I have always received very positive feedback from the executives that they have worked with. EA takes the time and makes the effort to get to know each individual and their respective families upfront to ensure that a tour is customized to their specific needs and interests. It is not an easy task as many are coming to Cleveland with very little knowledge of the area, along with potential assumptions of what to expect. Thank you for being a great support in the recruiting/relocation process.”
Recently, we had a client who was planning a “See Cleveland” visit for the final candidate for a key role in their company. This was a hard to fill role and providing a positive impression of our community was critical to the candidate accepting the position. They were planning to have one of their office administrators do a tour of Cleveland for the finalist candidate. I told them rather than leave it to chance and potentially lose the candidate if would be better to pull in Margy Judd and her team to customize the family’s visit so they could learn exactly what they need to make an informed decision. We engaged Executive Arrangements, the candidate accepted the job, and the family is happy in their new hometown. What I appreciate most about EA is that they provide a customized introduction that matches a recruit’s interests with the lifestyle here and lets them keep their personal life private while exploring the idea of moving to Cleveland. EA is my secret weapon for landing top candidates for NE Ohio companies. Our firm, Howard & O’Brien Executive Search, makes sure the candidate is the right fit for the job, and EA makes sure Cleveland is the right fit for the entire family.”
The Executive Arrangements day was absolutely invaluable and packed with information and places to see, tailored to our specific needs and interests. Lunch was arranged with a fantastic group of people, who shared a wealth of knowledge of the area. It left me with the feeling that we had definitely made the right decision to relocate to Cleveland. A few weeks after our EA tour, I had an email from Guide Lynne Brenner, inviting me to her local yoga class, which was such a thoughtful gesture. She personally picked me up, and introduced me to the yoga owner/tutor. This was a great way to meet new people and take up a new leisure pursuit! Lynne and I remain good friends and still meet for lunch to catch up. EA gave me the building blocks and confidence to embrace a new location. Their Guides have so much knowledge and their resources are infinite. Just knowing they can help with anything from restaurants to finding a dentist is very reassuring, especially when you don’t know a single person. The other great thing is that they leave it up to you as to how much or little you make use their services.
We work with EA during our recruitment process due to their expert knowledge of Cleveland, its suburbs and school districts. They are able to sell Cleveland by highlighting its amazing attributes, which are seldom known by non-Clevelanders. Money spent on EA’s services is a great investment, and I’m pretty sure that the experience provided by EA tilts the bar our way in terms of successful recruitments. I LOVE that we can pick up the phone, and EA just gets started. I never have to worry. EA provides personalized services for our candidates when they visit. They work one-on-one with each candidate and their family to determine what they are all about and then arrange their visit accordingly. I like that they provide school visits and lunches with other parents in targeted communities when necessary. They are 150% reliable and always flexible. Also, we appreciate their post-visit feedback. Another bonus is their welcome basket – what a great first impression! I have only heard positive reviews. Candidates are often quite surprised and impressed by how much Cleveland has to offer and appreciate that the visits are crafted to their interests and needs.”
Accepting a new job can be overwhelming. EA is like a personal assistant with local knowledge & insights you wish you had, and there they were!
The best part of the EA experience was the local peek into various neighborhoods. By touring with educated locals, I could really get the vibe of the area so I could see where I would feel most at home. This is my sixth hotel with Hilton Hotels WorldWide and this move was a little more challenging because I was coming from sunny Scottsdale, to the iciest days on record in Cleveland, a big leap! So to have a few personal connections; through some formal introductions via the EA team, was helpful and played a much needed roll in warming up my welcome. I also found your hand-marked map most useful; it succinctly identified perimeters and demographics of various neighborhoods. EA is the eHarmony for people moving to Cleveland.”
Thank you so much for all your help and the unbelievable tour. The experience must have been awe inspiring as (our candidate) called today and accepted the offer! I’m certain your work weighed significantly in the decision process, and we’re very pleased you could help. You proved your value really quickly with this work. (In response to their recruit, a single woman in her 30s living in New York City, accepting their offer to relocate to Cleveland for the job after just one day exploring Cleveland with Executive Arrangements. She had never lived anywhere but the East Coast prior and is now happily residing in Cleveland!)
I’m a huge fan of the work of Executive Arrangements. Not only do they appropriately set up one to consider a city that, frankly, most might otherwise look past, but they also leave people with the potential for lifelong friends and relationship through their thoughtful pairing of the client with those in the city of like-mind, interests and background to accelerate one’s acclimation. Eight years in, some of our closest Cleveland friends have come from your initial introduction to NE Ohio.
And not only have I benefited from their work personally, I have also taken advantage of EA’s unique model to successfully attract several individuals for my own staff from NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta, San Francisco and even Pittsburgh.