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Two of the most established names in Mexico relative to the executive search and recruiting industry are proud to announce that they have joined forces to launch a new industrial recruiting practice under the brand name – MaquilaFind.
Create New Industrial Recruiting Practice focused on Mexico
Qualifind Executive Search (US) and Bilingual Professional Search International or BPS (Mexico), have partnered to produce the maquiladora industry’s most robust recruiting practice. While MaquilaFind is a new venture, it’s foundation is rich in experience in that QualiFind has a 13 year track record in Mexico and BPS brings 10 years of experience in Mexico’s maquiladora industry to the new practice.
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Partner Selected as Board Member for the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS)
QualiFind Executive Search is pleased to announce that Senior Managing Partner – Fernando Espinosa has been invited to join the Board of Directors of the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS).
The NAPS Board voted unanimously on Monday January 24, 2011 to have Fernando join the NAPS Board of Directors and serve as the District Director for District VI. NAPS District VI encompasses California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
The National Association of Personnel Services has been the search, recruiting and staffing industry educator since 1961 and enjoys the reputation of being the oldest industry
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Much has changed since executive search professional Warren Carter began working around northern Baja California, Mexico, as sales manager to a customs brokerage and freight forwarding firm 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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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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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.
“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. You can’t do that anymore,” said Carter, co-owner of QualiFind, a Chula Vista executive search firm focused on cross-border manufacturing operations.
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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.
It should. An upsurge in the maquiladora industry in Baja California would translate to direct and indirect economic benefits for the San Diego region.
The goal of the 2006 Maquila Decree is to revitalize Mexico’s maquiladora industry, which suffered from the unintended fallout of the North American Free Trade Agreement and increased competition from Central American and Asian countries, particularly China and India. An invigorated maquildora industry offers more opportunities for U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs to provide goods and services to these manufacturing operations.
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Attaining the Pinnacle.
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. The search firm was looking to expand their service to Japanese companies that were investing in Mexico due to the implementation of NAFTA. NAFTA was beginning to stimulate development in the U.S. / Mexico border region and Japanese manufacturers needed personnel to get established.
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