About David
I was one of those recruiters.
Twenty years on the hiring side. Four of them in HR in the Royal Air Force, then 16 in agency recruiting, two of those running my own firm, working with candidates and the companies hiring them at the same time.
Those 16 years ran across tech, marketing and communications, and financial services. Blackstone, Omnicom, Meta, Salesforce, and around 150 other firms.
I sat across from every candidate I represented, before a hiring manager ever saw them and before a resume even went out, and I sat in on the decisions too.
I never read a full resume either. I was asking three things right away: what lane are you in, why are you relevant here, what problem do you solve. If I couldn't answer those quickly I was gone, and most of the time I couldn't answer them at all.
I did the passing.
Here's what I saw from that chair.
The ones who stalled usually weren't the weak ones. They were experienced leaders with real track records, and they were invisible for one reason, which was that their story pointed everywhere so it got them nowhere.
Nobody told them either, because the recruiters had moved on in seconds and the people around them all had a stake in their next move. They got silence. They filled it with more applications.
You've spent your whole career knowing exactly where you stood. This search is the first thing you've ever done with no one in your corner.
So that's the job now.
I crossed the desk in 2021, and now I do for you what I did for the candidates I represented. We commit to one direction and build everything around it, and the thing the search took from you starts coming back. A straight answer on every decision, from someone who's seen it from the other side.
The work happens through Momentum, my 1:1 program, with Momentum OS underneath it. That's a custom AI workspace built around you. It's yours for life.
If this sounds like where you are, let's talk.