My name is Chris Schoettelkotte and I am the Founder and President of Manhattan Resources, an executive search firm that specializes in the energy trading, oil and gas, and petrochemical industries.

I am an executive recruiter with more than a decade working in my niche. I firmly believe that search is for those with active, not lazy, brains. This business does not require an IQ of 140 – but it does require the ability to quickly assimilate lots of data – verbal, written, and visual in nature.

I haven’t achieved all I have to this point without having an established core business foundation. These are things to which I can attribute much of the success I have seen over the last ten years and which I know will guide me through the next ten and beyond. My hope is that by sharing the following five foundational components of a recruiting business, you will have the tools to use to achieve further success in your own business as well.