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Colossus Search Group

Colossus Search Group

Staffing and Recruiting

Phoenix, AZ 1,158 followers

FULL LIFECYCLE TALENT PARTNER | Attract, hire, keep, grow. Flat fees, 12-month guarantee. Plant floor to C-suite.

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Colossus Search Group is a Full Lifecycle Talent Partner. Most search firms sell a single transaction. They fill a seat, send an invoice, and what happens over the next twelve months is your problem. That model treats hiring as an event when it is actually a cycle. An offer is only as strong as the market data behind it, and a hire is only as good as the year that follows it. We work across four connected stages. ATTRACT. Compensation and market intelligence so you know what the role pays today and how deep the qualified pool really is in your geography, paired with direct outreach to people performing well elsewhere who will never see a posting. HIRE. Flat-fee retained search priced by level instead of a percentage of salary, backed by a 12-month guarantee. Contingent search when you want no commitment. Recruiting as a Service when hiring is continuous and you need an embedded engine. Volume pricing for skilled trades. KEEP. Compensation benchmarking, stay interviews, career pathing, and flight-risk visibility. The work that decides whether the hire you paid for is still in the seat next year. GROW. Succession planning, leadership bench mapping, and HR advisory for teams building capability rather than filling openings. We work with manufacturing, industrial services, skilled trades, construction, and energy companies, along with the finance, operations, and executive roles that run them. Plant floor to C-suite. Two principles hold this together. Incentives should be honest, which is why we price by level and not by a percentage of someone's salary. And retention is the real scoreboard, because a seat you fill twice was never really filled. Based in Phoenix, Arizona. Working with clients nationwide. If you are weighing a search, start with the market rather than the job post. Send us the role and we will map the qualified pool, what it pays, and a realistic time to hire before you commit to anything. austin@colossussearch.com | colossussearch.com

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https://www.colossussearch.com/
Industry
Staffing and Recruiting
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
Phoenix, AZ
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2025
Specialties
Executive Search, RaaS, RPO, Talent Acquisition, Compensation Benchmarking, Succession Planning, Flat-fee Recruiting, Accounting Professional Search, Finance Professional Search, Marketing Professional Search, Sales Professional Search, HR Professional Search, Operations Executive Search, IT Professional Search, Talent Sourcing, and Talent Automation

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    Austin Younglove

    When a top performer quits, the exit interview says "more money." It's rarely the whole truth. People leave because the work stopped growing them, because a manager made them feel invisible, because they couldn't see a next step, or because they finally noticed the market had moved and their pay hadn't. Money is the reason that's polite to say out loud. The real reasons are usually fixable, and almost always cheaper to fix than to replace. Swipe for the four real drivers. 👇 #Retention #EmployeeEngagement #Leadership #HR #Management

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    Austin Younglove

    A Phoenix CHRO tops out at $349K. The same CHRO, fully remote, tops out at $360K. Same person. Same job. No move. Here is the base band from our 2025 data: Phoenix / Scottsdale: $204K to $349K Fully remote: $210K to $360K Dallas: $206K to $353K Chicago: $221K to $378K New York: $263K to $450K National median base: $270K Phoenix sits at 0.97 of national. Remote sits at exactly 1.00. That three percent is not a rounding error, it is a structural discount, and it is the only one on this list your people can erase without selling a house. Most Phoenix comp committees still benchmark against other Phoenix companies. That made sense when the alternative was relocating. It stopped making sense the moment the alternative to relo became a laptop. If your CHRO or other comp bands were set against a local peer group, you are not competing with Scottsdale. You are competing with the entire country at a three percent handicap.

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    Austin Younglove

    When roles keep reopening, the instinct is to recruit harder. More agencies. More reqs. More sourcing. It's a trap. If the reason people leave is unfixed, every new hire is just fresh fuel for the same fire. You're not solving turnover, you're subscribing to it. And you're burning your employer brand in the process, because a revolving door is visible to every candidate who checks Glassdoor.

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    Austin Younglove

    A shocking share of new hires decide whether they'll stay within the first few weeks, long before they've done any real work. We call it the 90-day cliff. The hire is technically onboarded, but disengaged: unclear expectations, a manager who's "too busy," none of what the interview promised. They don't quit on day 90. They decide on day 9 and leave on day 200. The cliff is preventable, but only if someone is watching for it.

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    Austin Younglove

    Our manifesto, in one post. We believe the talent industry has been optimizing the wrong number for decades. Time-to-fill. Offers accepted. Reqs closed. All of them measure motion, not outcome. The outcome is a person who joins, stays, performs, and grows. Everything else is vanity. Here's what we stand for now as a Full Lifecycle Talent Partner. Swipe through. If it resonates, we should talk. 👇 #Manifesto #Retention #TalentStrategy #Leadership #FutureOfWork

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    Colossus Search Group

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    We've pivoted. Not away from our core audience or lines of work, but added enhancements to them. We've long-since believed retention should be the true measure of success in the talent space (our 12-month search guarantee communicates this). Now, we have the firepower to back it up beyond just protections of the investment. We have the thought leadership and service lanes in place to help you retain your key people long-term. Here's what available with every search from here on out: -Compensation Benchmarking -Succession Planning -Executive Compensation -Role Structuring -Comp Philosophy and Pay Equity -Org Design & Workforce Planning -HR Infrastructure Setup -Inclusive Hiring Practices We're now the Full Lifecycle Talent Partner you all deserve.

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    Austin Younglove

    Most guarantees in recruiting are a refund. Ours is a philosophy. A 90-day guarantee tells you everything about how an agency thinks: get them in, survive the trial period, collect. Our 12-month guarantee only makes sense if you're actually invested in the person staying, because we are. I own way too much risk to not care. A flat fee removes the incentive to inflate salaries. A long guarantee removes the incentive to walk away. Together, they align us with the one thing you care about: a hire that lasts. What length guarantee does your current partner offer and what does that tell you? #Recruiting #FlatFee #TalentAcquisition #Hiring #Guarantee

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    Austin Younglove

    We used to celebrate placements. We don't anymore. A placement is a promise, not a result. Celebrating the signed offer is like celebrating the wedding and ignoring the marriage. The real win is 12, 18, 24 months later; when that person is still there, still thriving. So we changed our scoreboard. We measure retained, thriving hires, not offers accepted. It's a harder number to hit. It's the only one that matters. What does your team actually celebrate? The hire, or the tenure? #Recruiting #Retention #Metrics #Leadership #TalentAcquisition

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    Austin Younglove

    "Full Lifecycle Talent Partner" isn't a tagline. It's our operating model. It means one partner is accountable across five stages that are usually owned by five disconnected vendors and internal teams: attract, hire, onboard, retain, grow. When those stages are stitched together, the handoffs stop dropping people. When they're fragmented, your best hire becomes someone else's best hire 14 months later. Swipe for the five stages — and where most companies break the chain. 👇 #TalentManagement #EmployeeLifecycle #HR #Leadership #Recruiting

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    Lisa Garstang

    PLACED ✅ VP of Business Development role in an industry so specialized that the pool of truly qualified candidates nationwide is small enough to count on one hand. This isn't the kind of search you solve by posting a job and hoping the right person applies. When there are only a handful of people in the country who genuinely check every box, you have to know exactly where to look — and go find the people who aren't out there looking for you. That's exactly what I did. I built a shortlist where every single candidate met every requirement, no compromises. My client had someone hired within two weeks. That's the kind of result I care about: narrow field, fast turnaround, and the right person in the seat. If you're trying to fill a role where the right candidate feels nearly impossible to find, that's honestly where I do my best work. Let's chat!

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