Whether it is erecting a skyscraper, building the right team or creating the future of Cloud technology, a strong foundation is the key to success and stability.  S. A. Traut specializes in developing a strong team of talent that complement each other.  This foundation of talent is critical to the success of any company (start-up, emerging, medium or behemoth).  This team of talented employees ensures the evolution of a positive corporate culture.  The best and the brightest passive talent is not seeking career change whether the economy is down, stagnant or growing.  We identify and recruit the best and the brightest in the cloud, mobile, gaming, storage, big data/analyticss, consulting engineering or Pre-IPO start-up industries.  If desired by the client company, we will establish and maintain the HR function as well.

S.A. Traut Associates has devised a scaleable search alternative for select clientele called "MacroSearch". What is "MacroSearch"?  A big picture approach to the sourcing, recruiting successful placement and onboarding of engineering, C level executives, operations, business development, diverse high tech or programming, sales and marketing personnel.  Our CEO will work side by side with your team, at your offices, to get the job done above and beyond the call of duty.  S.A. Traut focuses on the past, present and future of its select clients.  We understand the culture of each client, which allows us to best represent the client as an "ambassador" in the marketplace.  S.A. Traut develops a strong client partnership for years.  S.A. Traut ideally coordinates the search, interviewing, offer and resignation process from conception to completion, "C2C" on behalf of the client.  If we are relocating a new employee, we will assist in finding realtors, movers, finding the best rated public school communities, best pediatricians, etc. You get the idea.

Program Management Recruiting  

 S.A. Traut Associates has created "Program Management Recruiting", an innovative, tailored search alternative for select Pre-IPO start-up and Fortune 300 clients.  Depending on the needs of the client, our search strategy would involve a combination of internal and external recruiting activity, and Project Management Recruiting (PMR).  How does S.A. Traut find its talent pool? S.A. Traut utilizes several recruiting vehicles in concert with one another to recruit the best candidates.  S.A. Traut has built a vast network of international friends and sources, which has created direct channels to recruit the best and the brightest candidates.  We are creative in identifying the humble"Rock Stars" internationally and recruiting them in a professional and personal manner.  We specialize in persuading very "passive" candidates who may say "No thank you, I am not interested" initially, to saying "Yes, I accept the offer" at the end game.  We have successfully recruited candidates from Australia to Amsterdam guiding clients and candidates through the relocation and Visa process as well.

The Hacker Lab

We apply candidate analytics to identify, recruit and hire, what we call, “Super-Engaged” employees.  What is the S.A. Traut “Hacker Lab?”  S.A. Traut Associates has been collecting and studying analytics for the past 4 years based on thousands of candidates’ answers to our innovative interview questions.  Our statistics and analysis are evaluated in our Lab resulting in a successful formula that ensures our clients hire only “Super-Engaged”, supreme hacker coder employees resulting in a great corporate culture.

There are four types of employees in every company in every country.  My source for three of these employees is the book "The Coming Jobs War."  The three employees they reference are from the best to worst respectively.  1.  "Engaged Employees" (top 10% employees who better the company and only 28% of the world's employees) 2.  "Not Engaged Employees"  (some value added, 9-5 workers, focused on collecting paychecks) 3.  "Actively Disengaged" (go out of their way to disrupt everything).  The employee that S.A. Traut Associates has identified and specializes in recruiting/hiring is the Super Engaged Employee...the top 1% talent in your company who thinks outside the box, works 24/7 and comes up with great solutions that no one else has thought of...makes his or her team better.  Think of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Wayne Gretsky as Super Engaged Employees.  Also, great leaders/managers are few and far between according to "The Coming Jobs War"...1 in 5 Managers are Engaged and the majority of the remaining managers are simply "lousy"...in the author's words.  These "lousy" managers rarely get better and will only be the root cause for employee discontent amid your workforce resulting in less or disengaged customers and decreased revenue. 

The Origin of S.A. Traut Associates

 Stuart A. Trautenberg founded S.A. Traut Associates in Kenmore Square across from beloved Fenway Park in Boston, MA in 1987.  For the record, he is a loyal Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics fan.  After graduating from Boston University and not having a clue what to do with his life, Stuart was hired by a professional classical executive search firm where he worked for 2 years.  He was hired into a newly created position tailored to him because he could instantly connect with people and earn trust.  His grandfather would have said that "Stuart is a mensch who can schmooze" (yiddish).  To define, he is a man of high integrity and honor who can talk an honest game.  Stuart became the protoge of the three Founders and learned vicariously through them. He called the Founders his three mentors and learned the good, the bad and the ugly about headhunting. He adopted his own style to match his New Jersey, dry sense of humor, principled and loyal personality.  Stuart is all about Str8 Talk, which is being honest and candid with clients and candidates. At the advanced and omniscient mature age of 23, the conceptual idea of S.A.Traut Associates became a reality.  Twenty-five years later, S.A. Traut Associates is a trend setting global technical/executive search & management consulting firm recognized for its out of the box thinking, resourcefulness, integrity and bottom-line results.