HR Companies & HR Consultants in Aurora, IL

GETS Services Inc, whose full name is Global Executive Talent Search Services, is an executive search and headhunting firm based in Aurora, Illinois. It works with employers across North America that need to fill senior and specialized roles, with a particular emphasis on the information technology sector.

Much of its work targets IT services providers that sell outsourced offerings such as application development and maintenance, infrastructure management and engineering services. For HR buyers, the firm acts as an external recruiting partner rather than a provider of HR software or administration.

Services and roles filled

The company groups its recruiting work into three lines: general executive search, confidential top-level hiring, and technology talent search. Typical assignments include:

• Sales and business development roles, including new-business hunters, account managers, client partners, practice managers, solution architects, pre-sales leads and marketing managers
• People-management positions from manager and project manager up to director, vice president, senior vice president and regional or department heads
• Human resources leadership and staff, such as HR managers, directors and vice presidents, heads of recruitment, recruiters, and specialists in benefits, labor relations and learning
• CxO, top management and board appointments handled by a dedicated senior team
• Technical hires including SAP and Oracle specialists, cloud professionals working with AWS, Azure, ServiceNow and Salesforce, automation and IT security experts, embedded software developers and senior technical leads

How engagements work

GETS describes a three-stage process. First, consultants build a profile of the ideal hire and gather context on the client's business, its hiring plans in the relevant area and its near- and long-term goals.

Next comes the search itself, drawing on the firm's candidate database, its professional contacts and published sources; shortlisted people are assessed for motivation, skills, background, personality and pay expectations, and are given an approved overview of the role.

Finally, after an internal review, the strongest and most interested candidates are sent to the client, and the firm coordinates interviews with those the client selects. For board and C-suite searches, only the firm's most senior people take part, every candidate is met face to face, and discretion is a priority.

Technology candidates are vetted by a technical panel through phone, video or in-person interviews, and high-volume requests receive dedicated talent managers.

Team and credentials

The firm was founded by its president, Dhrieta Shikora, who has more than twenty years in executive search and earlier worked for several US search companies. She holds an MBA in finance and marketing from PUMBA, affiliated with Pune University, and concentrates on manufacturing, banking and insurance, and travel and transportation.

Principal consultants Mitali Lad Sowani, Milan Patel and Priya Jain cover retail and consumer goods, IT infrastructure management, telecom, engineering services, BPO and banking, among other areas. The company holds Minority Business Enterprise certification from the Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council, an affiliate of the national council, which can help corporate clients meet supplier diversity targets.

Other points that may matter to buyers: the firm states that its placements are backed by a satisfaction guarantee with a refund, describes its fees as value-centric, and stresses relationship-driven recruiting. It also follows a 1-1-1 giving pledge, committing a share of its services, earnings and staff time to local community causes.