Idea. Dream. Passion.

20 Years ago, the idea of a company like SEARCH INSIGHTS was merely a dream. Yet over the years, that dream turned into a passion. A passion built on a deep love for recruitment, a commitment to client solutions, a knack for scaling direct hire/search practices, and a desire to enable colleagues to achieve remarkable and sustained success.

Today, SEARCH INSIGHTS is the advantage that empowers staffing agencies & search firms to unleash their record setting growth potential in fee based placement solutions. SI is 3 firms in 1. Consulting firm. Search Firm. Training Firm.

Whether we CONSULT on the launch or expansion of a practice, PLACE top industry direct hire professionals with you, or TRAIN your colleagues in the art & science of direct hire/search, SEARCH INSIGHTS, CPT is here to navigate the journey with you.

Passion led us here.

Meet Nick

Founder & Game Changer

Nick Schichtle (pronounced she-still) has over 25 years of direct hire, professional search, executive search and project RPO expertise. He has launched, scaled, nurtured and operated practices to record setting performance within the staffing industry for two of the largest global staffing companies and a handful of high growth firms. Practices specialties, niches, have covered professional, technical and non-professional sectors across a plethora of industries.

He started his career in recruitment as a full desk perm recruiter in accounting & finance in the Bay Area (CA), where he quickly racked up performance and merit awards while being promoted into leadership. This early success put him on a path that became a thread throughout his career, to craft, launch, establish and grow direct hire/search teams, including operational infrastructure and strategic plans. It started with small teams of 5-10 that led to larger opportunities and practices (+200).

Over the years, he has hired over 1000 recruiters, managers and leaders for his own practices, who have placed more than 20,000 candidates for countless clients across North and South America.

Nick is known as a developer of recruiters and managers. He has designed, created, implemented and facilitated recruiting, marketing and placement best practices training and development courses for a number of firms. Nick readily acknowledges that much of his success can be attributed to those who invested in him and his success throughout his career. Thus, he pays it forward through coaching and mentoring industry professionals of all levels to greater degrees of success, advancement and mastery.

Lastly, he is a sought after speaker, trainer and longtime member of the American Staffing Association (ASA) and National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS). 

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Personally, Nick is the fourth of six tight-knit siblings who managed numerous relocations during their father’s 27 year US Air Force career. He’s lived in two countries and 9 states thus far.

Nick played college football for the UCLA Bruins (Rose Bowl Champions) and the Oregon State Beavers as a quarterback, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Communications.

He met and married his college sweetheart, Christine. They have two adult children, Julia and Casper, and currently reside in the Smokey Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.

Nick loves sports, especially football and golf, as well as dogs, cooking and hiking (Appalachian Trail). Christine is the founder of the non-profit Biblical counseling practice, Faithful Journeys, and both are active in their church.  

The Schichtle Family