PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
{ WORKFORCE PLACEMENT } DEANNE DESAUTELS
TODD GOVIG
President and CEO Accounting & Finance Professionals, Inc. afprofessionals.com
President and CEO Govig and Associates govig.com
As founder of Accounting & Finance Professionals and Staff-Logic, Desautels has more than 19 years of recruiting, staffing and human resources experience. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Republic Media award for “Giving Back to the Community.” Business advice: “The only way to get ahead is by working hard and continually learning along the way. Passion for people is the key in staffing and recruiting. Your goal needs to be connecting and helping people make the right choices for them in their career, which will guide them to happiness.” Trend to watch: “Our government has the largest impact on our industry.”
Govig has created a successful company where employees embrace a talentdriven, talent-delivered philosophy. Employees are provided with career growth opportunities, flexibility with work-life balance and financial support to meet educational goals. Established in 1978, Govig employs more than 70 recruiting professionals with a focus on accounting, finance, tax, operations, construction, biopharmaceutical and senior housing. Childhood dream: “I always wanted to own my own business. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer. I am not a lawyer – but I love good lawyer jokes.” Surprising fact: “In my spare time, I do aerobatics in a small plane.”
MAX HANSEN
Co-founder and CEO Y Scouts, Inc. yscouts.com Since 2002, Hansen and his staffing companies have placed nearly 20,000 in jobs in Arizona. In 2012, 10 years after Hansen founded Job Brokers at age 26, the firm had $25 million in revenue. Hansen also invented the term “purpose
ANDY JACOBS
Vice president Concentric Healthcare Staffing concentrichealthcare.com Jacobs is one of the leaders at Scottsdale-based Concentric, which specializes in healthcare employment with an emphasis in nursing and allied health. Concentric develops partnerships with its clients and becomes an integral part of clients’ staffing solution. Trend to watch: “We’re faced with, what’re we going to do about Obamacare and how are we going to fund it if we’re going to keep it? Those questions are yet to be answered. And for our purposes here in Arizona, once those are answered, I think it will be easier for the hospitals and facilities around here to understand how they are going to be able to budget their hospitals and facilities and their employees.”
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based recruiting” with the formation of his executive search firm, Y Scouts. Business advice: “Stop only filling skill gaps with resumes. We are giving our industry a bad name when this is the only focus. There is so much more to making sure someone is right for a company than whether or not their resume has the same key words on it as a job description. People don’t work in job descriptions, they should work for companies who have purpose that aligns with their own.”
PAUL BOCA
CEO Corporate Job Bank corporatejobbank.com Boca has been president and CEO of both Corporate Job Bank Personnel Services and Professional Search Associates for almost 30 years, building the company into the No. 1 locally owned staffing company in Arizona. He participates on many business and civic boards. Business advice: “It’s always about the people, not the technology or the systems we use for tracking searches. It’s having people who work for you that love helping people.” Toughest challenge: “We have been helping many of our customers for years and continuing to find the high quality employee that our customers are accustom to from Corporate Job Bank is always tough. The employee market is always changing and we work very hard to stay in step.”
Surprising fact: “I have a great love for clothes. Believe it or not, this love started back when I sold shirts and ties door to door in the 1970s.”