With an accounting background ourselves and over 20 years of combined recruitment experience, we knew there must be a better way for agency hiring to be conducted. A way that leverages the latest technologies, addresses biases in the existing process and actually provides value to candidates and companies alike.
So we created Outhire.
A finance and accounting recruitment agency with a mission to create the best hiring experience possible.
Tony Kwok
Co-Founder
Gary Fogelman
Co-Founder
Our values are the foundations of our company, if you share these same values, we want to work with you.
It’s not essential for your recruiter to have summited Kilimanjaro, but it helps. Tony Kwok is an ambitious person. He hikes. He sprints. He’s traveled abroad alone. He loves a difficult board game. The man lives to be challenged.
One thing Tony doesn’t find challenging is building relationships with people. He’s always had an instinctive ability to reach out, get to know new faces, and help them achieve their goals. Mostly, he loves helping companies find their dream hire. The ability to make meaningful connections between people and organizations should be more than a subset of an HR team. Recruiters are specialists, and Tony wanted to create a business that honours this philosophy. So he did.
Gary Fogelman has expertise in many areas: accounting and finance, assessing talent in accounting and finance, finding the perfect fit for a professional role, building a business, and supporting a family.
But he also loves cycling, on deserted roads and remote trails, away from the hectic city and alone with his thoughts. And that peace of mind is powerful because Gary isn’t your average recruiter. He wants to do more than assess your skill set. He wants to take sincere interest in your goals, and he wants to give you advice you can trust. When you’re looking for the right role, you want a guy like Gary pondering your next steps while he rides through the forest.
In basketball and in life, Teddie Chau is a guy you want on your team. He loves a game that calls for strategic thinking, he’s got a relentless drive to solve problems, and he’s always finding ways to get the best out of everyone. Having earned a degree in psychology and worked across multiple industries around the world, Teddie’s got a penchant for building long-lasting relationships with people. He champions mental, physical, and professional growth, both for himself and those around him. Teddie knows that in the professional world, the type of people who are meant to lead a team can be hard to find, so he leverages his network to help companies find their next MVP.
Do you prefer working with people more than with numbers or anything else. Can you see yourself making your day revolve around people and learning their stories so you can present them better than they present themselves.
Do you excel under pressure, we are committed to the deadlines we set with the companies we work with. As such, we do whatever it takes to make these deliverables. Will you thrive under this pressure?
Unlike a software service or a manufactured widget, our services deal with people as a resource and as a client and no two people are identical. Will you be adaptable when things don’t go as expected?
We learn everyday in this role. At most other roles, it may be a goal but at Outhire, it’s a necessity to continuously learn. Whether it's about a new technical standard, a type of position or something as simple as what it's like to transition to Canada from another country. The only constant is change.
It's not about how many times you get knocked down, it's how you get back up. Resilience and perseverance will be foundations of how you keep the success you’ve built in our field.
We equip our staff with the latest hardware and software to ensure they are able to do their work at optimal efficiency. Macbooks, high-fidelity microphones, 4K webcams, 2K ergonomic monitors, a plethora of head hunting tools - if it will help you achieve higher levels of success, we’ll get it.
We have a dedicated office with identical equipment to what you will be given to work with at home. Come in as much or as little as you like. We generally have everyone coordinated to come in on the same days but never as a requirement.
Hate to brag but we have a team you’ll actually want to work with. We built an environment free of egos, heavy on the dose of fun and focused on the mission. Check out the bios of our team members and some of the activities we’ve had the in past.
Our industry is notorious for throwing new hires into the “deep end”, “fire”, or through “the gauntlet”. We don’t take that approach. We built a process using technology and dedicated mentorship and coaching to ensure that if you are joining our team, you will get the best chance to step forward.
We offer one of the most lucrative performance bonuses and are one of the few agencies to include a revenue share bonus on top of your base salary. Our work is tough, so we make the rewards; both qualitative and numerical, worth it!
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