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Recruiting in Mexico is a QualiFind Success |
By Michael Allen
Mexico, is home to more than 3000 “maquiladoras,” and those plants are on something of a recruiting spree. Cross-border recruiting firm QualiFind is helping international employers working in Mexico to recruit qualified professionals.
Much has changed since executive search professional Warren Carter began working around Tijuana, Mexico, as sales manager to a customs brokerage in the early 1990s.
"In those days, you could drive up to a new plant that was under construction and you could literally park your car, get out, walk inside and introduce yourself," says Carter, the co-owner of QualiFind, a Chula Vista, California, firm specializing in recruiting executives for cross-border manufacturing operations.
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| Hire power |
For big-company resources at reasonable prices, call an HR consultant.
By Mark Henricks
When Warren Carter was transforming his Chula Vista, California, executive search company from a two-person virtual organization to a more conventional model with full-time employees, the company lacked the processes and expertise to attract, hire and retain the employees it would take to fuel QualiFind Inc.'s plan for success. "[To] make that transition from independent contractors to search consultants on payroll, you have to create infrastructure," says Carter, 43. "We weren't big enough to put somebody at a director of HR level.".
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| Executive Search Firm QualiFind Scours Mexico for Best Candidates |
Cross-Border Manufacturing Plants Prove Lucrative Niche
By Mike Allen
QualiFind co-owners Fernando Espinosa, left, and Warren Carter say the firm is on track to generate $2.7 million in sales this year after 2006’s record of $1.8 million.
Warren Carter’s Georgian drawl is still evident as he talks about his early days working as a marketing and sales manager for a San Diego customs broker, driving up and down Baja California trying to find new business.
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| Reviving maquiladoras |
| How San Diego's economy might benefit |
By Warren Carter and Alberto Arce
October 18, 2006
When Mexican President Vicente Fox signs the new Maquila Decree this week, it will be big news in Mexico. North of the border, it's not likely to receive as much attention.
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| Attaining the Pinnacle |
Spring 2008
Fernando Espinosa, a native of Mexico City, admittedly got into recruiting by accident. I had just returned to Mexico from Japan (where I became fluent in Japanese) to process my enrollment for a Masters program in Japan. Instead, I wound up getting an offer from a search firm that was looking for someone fluent in Japanese.
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