HR Executive Search.

Specialized Retained Search for HR Leadership


Hiring senior HR leadership requires more than access to candidates. It requires market intelligence, rigorous assessment, and a disciplined search strategy. Just HR provides retained HR executive search across Canada, helping organizations identify, engage, assess, and secure experienced HR leaders who can strengthen people strategy, shape culture, lead transformation, and support long-term business performance.


A Proven HR Executive Search Process

Every search begins with a clear understanding of your organization, leadership requirements, business strategy, and culture. Our retained executive search methodology combines market mapping, targeted outreach, leadership assessment, and ongoing stakeholder communication to identify HR executives whose experience, capabilities, and leadership style align with your organization.

Our Executive Search Methodology

1.) Listen.

What makes Just HR better is our ability to listen and carefully, diagnose the issues at hand and then use these insights to effectively assess candidates before influencing them to act on the key roles in your organization.


2.) Find.

Just HR's proprietary search process, called the T.I.G.S method, manipulates 4 key search criteria to methodically build our search strategy. Our search strategy is a proven, reliable, and repeatable process that yields exceptional results every time.


3.) Assess.

Ensuring a viable, mutually beneficial fit is more important than ever. Ushering candidates through the interview process is one thing, ensuring they accept your offer and, then most importantly, deliver on the mandate is what we focus on to ensure the situation works for everyone.

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4.) Manage.

Just as excellent communication is critical on the front end of the process it’s just as important on the backend to ensure successful completion. Candidate engagement is paramount to ensure a smooth transition from potential candidate to onboarding and successful employee. The search team ensures an accurate understanding of preferred candidate acceptance criteria before offers are extended. Our search team presents offers and ensures that this critical step is handled with care and attention. The long-standing relationships we have with our candidates ensures an additional level of insight is provided to land the best candidate.

Example Skillsets
  • Vice President, Human Resources
  • Chief People Officer
  • Vice President, Organization Development
  • Director, Total Rewards
  • Director, Talent Acquisition
  • Vice President, Health & Safety
  • Director, Labour Relations
  • Director, HR Analytics
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