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Our clients want highly skilled candidates delivered fast. Covert Recruiting was founded to simplify one of the biggest challenges for growing companies – talent acquisition. Our diversely skilled team will work with you to develop custom recruiting solutions while offering maximum transparency, collaboration, reliability, and quality. You focus on your business, we’ll focus on providing top talent.
Jon Heise founded Covert Recruiting in 2020. He has nearly 15 years of sales and service experience and has been in recruiting since 2011. He’s worked in contract, permanent, managed service recruiting/RPO, in-house/corporate, and executive search roles. His industry knowledge is broad and includes IT, software engineering, marketing, creative, digital, finance, biotech, and many more.
Jon believes this is a relationship-driven business more than a transactional one. To him, this means taking an honest, caring, and thorough approach to helping his candidates and client partners. There’s no ghosting. He’ll tell you what he’ll do and follow through with a high attention to detail.
Jon grew up in Detroit, Michigan but has spent the last decade in the amazing city of Chicago, IL. When he’s not recruiting, Jon can be found on the golf course (over 475 different courses played), traveling to far-off places with his wonderful wife (Northern Ireland, Mexico City, and Montreal among his favorites), and hanging out with his mini dachshund, Otto.
Lauren joined Covert Recruiting in August of 2022. She came to us from the fast-paced software startup space. Before that, she worked as an ESL teacher with a business English and career coaching specialty, helping students perfect their resumes, prepare for interviews, and learn communication skills in the workplace.
Lauren’s favorite part of recruiting is building relationships and matching candidates with their perfect roles. She loves the strategy and skill involved in sourcing the right people and uncovering a candidate’s motivations, past accomplishments, and desires for growth beyond the resume. She sees great importance in digging deep and finding key patterns that might otherwise be missed from a quick overview. She has recruited for finance, coordinator and operations, sales, and marketing roles.
Outside of recruiting, Lauren spends her time at the beach, snuggling with her three cats, and doing yoga. A passionate traveler, she currently resides in tropical Costa Rica and works remotely under palm trees and scarlet macaws.
Riley joined Covert Recruiting in May of 2023. A former Division II athlete and Ohio State University graduate, Riley has a background in sales and comes to us from an outside sales position. Riley is outgoing, motivated, and loves building new relationships.
Riley believes that relationship building and connecting customers to top talent go hand in hand. She prides herself in honesty, integrity and goes the extra mile to ensure client and candidate satisfaction and success.
Riley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio where she currently resides. Outside of recruiting, she enjoys cheering on her favorite sports teams (Who Dey!), spending time with her dog and two cats, or enjoying the outdoors.
While we can operate as your recruiting partner covertly and behind the scenes, one of the keys in the recruiting world is transparency. We want our partnership to be open, communicative, and deliberate. We’re holding ourselves accountable to fill your team’s growth needs and operate in a way that you know what you’re getting into.
Teamwork is a must. You’re the expert in what you do, we’re the experts in the recruiting world. That means we must work together so we can attain our shared goals. We will be effective and timely communicators, and align with companies and candidates that believe in the same philosophy.
Trust. Consistency. What you expect. The recruiting world moves fast, and it’s easy (and unfortunately too common) to cut corners. We don’t do that. Not every match is meant to be, but our goal is to accurately and consistently deliver the information you need as a candidate or a hiring manager to make the important decisions.
In a time where there is an unprecedented amount of active and passive talent, not every candidate or company will prove to be a perfect fit. We vow to take a relationship building approach rather than a transactional approach. Our experienced team knows how to ask the right questions at the right time so we can maximize each other’s time as we work together.
There’s no time better than right now to find the career you’ve been looking for. Ask us how we can help.