Our
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Our collective experience in corporate Human Resources and Talent Acquisition and External Search Firm Recruiting helps us to quickly relate to and understand clients and candidates alike. We appreciate and respect both client and candidate’s time, function, and value to the overall success of search assignments.
President
About Michael Strum
Mike has been at the forefront of RAI’s growth as a premier provider of recruiting services to organizations of all sizes and in a wide array of industries. He started with RAI as a full-desk recruiter early in his career and rose to partner status in only a few short years through his impressive volume of placement success. He has been instrumental in developing internal, targeted market development strategies, sourcing techniques, and candidate-development processes. He also builds strong partnerships with individuals and corporations in outplacement and career consulting activities, providing an authentic connection and a hands-on approach to these processes. Personal relationship development with both clients and candidates has allowed Mike to execute fine-pointed search strategies that have resulted in an unprecedented number of successful searches throughout his stellar career. His knowledge and experience within the OEM, power-generation, oil-and-gas and industrial markets is expansive.
When it comes to candidate sourcing, Mike has built an extensive network and has developed precise skills. His truly understands our clients’ needs and has a clear focus on the “quality of candidates” vs. “quantity of candidates” has allowed him to maintain a solid, longstanding client base. Michael dives into each search with the highest degrees of energy, integrity and professionalism. He understands that all positions, regardless of level or pay grade, are important to our clients, and therefore, important to us.
Consultant
About Robert Austin
Bob is a seasoned HR professional with a high-level understanding of the inner workings of employment strategies. He knows that staying competitive requires tactical focus, coupled with a highly motivated and productive workforce that has a diversity of skills, a unified vision and a growth mindset. His proven methods of success have been fully integrated here at RAI, as he serves as both counsel and strategist for our HR Consulting Services team. With a long history working for both corporate and privately owned businesses, Bob has held several leadership roles in human resources management, focusing on many aspects of workforce oversight, including: compensation and benefits administration, diversity and inclusion training, employee relations, organizational development and outplacement. His HR management experience and skills were honed in several different industries, including manufacturing, supply chain and distribution, construction and engineering.
In addition to his HR acumen, Bob also brings his impressive recruiting talents to RAI. Previously, he served as Director of North American Recruiting for AMEC Foster Wheeler, where he was able to bring much needed structure and focus to the company’s talent management—no easy task within the engineering, construction, manufacturing and energy markets’ high-volume world of recruiting. Bob has also helped global leaders, such as ABB and Siemens, in this capacity. These experiences have allowed Bob to fuse proven corporate recruiting and employee-development models with classic search-firm recruiting methodologies. The results offer a practical, real-world perspective on what employers want in their employees, not just as candidates, but also as long-term contributors to the organizations that they serve.