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Keeping the Right People on the Bus

 
Dave Allen
President, AGRI-SEARCH

In our office, we have a team member fond of saying, "There is a seat for everybody and a body for every seat."  But what happens when the wrong person is in a seat?

I remember well a client’s call.  "Dave, you’ve helped us find some quality people.  Would you consider helping us move one on to a new opportunity?" Though the call was a first for me, and thankfully it wasn’t a person we had placed, the problem the employer was facing is all too common in the work place. 


As a manager, he liked the employee who had been there for some time.  He had allowed average behavior to decline into sub-par production that he was finding no longer acceptable.  The employee’s personal situation was one that the client preferred not to be responsible for disrupting.  So, what does he do?  He calls us to see if we would help with his problem. 


At AGRI-SEARCH, we specialize in finding top-level talent, and what he described was not.  So, what should we tell him to do?  To find out, read "Loss Aversion", an excellent article found in this newsletter on dealing with perpetual underperformers.

 

Current Open Career Opportunities

 
At AGRI-SEARCH, our staff is committed to bringing top-tier talent to our clients. Open positions change daily, but the need for quality people is constant in every successful business.

Highlighted below are some of our current open positions we are assisting our clients with. If interested in having us assist you in landing talent for one of your positions, or if one of these opportunities looks attractive to you or someone you know, please contact us.
7630 Brand Development Sales Director - Central Missouri
  • Growing, well-positioned seed company known for their commitment to a quality product and their dedication to employees is seeing an individual to develop and launch a new brand and manage sales efforts.
4103 - Accounting Manager - Eastern US

  • Highly respected, rapidly expanding, and established Eastern US grain company is seeking an Accounting Manager for their corproate office.

8006 Sales Director - Iowa
  • An international provider of agricultural integrated equipment is seeking someone with at least two years of experience in an Applications, Production or Technical lead role in a processing environment.
5673 Ingredient Trader - Texas
  • Passionate trader must have by-product or non-GMO / organics / organic foods trading experience, be by-product driven, and willing to look at all the angles to make good trades.
3785 Location Assistant Manager - Central Illinois
  • Join a premier agronomy company with options to grow the business further through strategic relationships and cold-calling.
5683 Agriculture OTC Relationship Manager - Chicago
  • World-wide agriculture company is looking for OTC Relationship Managers to expand their business in the US for agriculture markets (mainly grain, cattle, and oilseed) by prospecting new customers, visiting current customers and marketing risk management strategies.
8004 Automation Engineer - Eastern Wisconsin

  • An international provider of software and controls for agricultural processing and handling is seeking an Automation Engineer with several years of experience in electrical design with AutoCAD in eastern Wisconsin.

 

Featured Staff -
Meet Nate Witsman

 
Nate Witsman joined the AGRI-SEARCH team in early 2018 after spending 13 years recruiting with other firms. He brings to work every day a passion for recruiting and helping match quality talent with our client companies.

His focus at AGRI-SEARCH is partnering with Agricultural Processing and Handling Equipment Manufacturers and related companies to recruit leading Engineering and Automation talent.

Nate is a Charleston, Illinois, native and earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2003 from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.  Soon after graduating from college, he headed to the northwest Chicago suburbs where he began his recruiting career working for a large recruiting firm and dealing with a wide variety of positions.

In 2008, Nate moved back to central Illinois, and after working independently for a time, joined an MRI Network affiliate in their Bloomington office.  He worked there for seven years specializing in mid- to executive-level Engineering and Sales professionals with equipment manufacturers and system integrators around the U.S.

Nate enjoys using his many years of recruiting experience to help expand AGRI-SEARCH’s ability to serve clients and candidates in the agricultural industry.  He is also passionate about his faith and family, and when not working, he is an avid woodworker and fly fisherman. 

Please contact Nate to discuss your needs, whether looking for a career opportunity or needing to hire quality talent in the Engineering and Automation space.

Loss Aversion

 
Imagine this scenario: a colleague offers to flip a coin and give you $20 if it lands on heads. If it lands on tails, you give him $20. Stop and ponder; would you accept that bet? For most of us, the answer is no. Behavioral science experts Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman performed an experiment which resulted in a clear example of human bias towards losses. The experiment involved asking people if they would accept a bet based on the flip of a coin. If the coin came up tails the person would lose $100, and if it came up heads they would win $200. The results of the experiment showed that on average people needed to gain about twice as much as they were willing to lose in order to proceed forward with the bet. This tendency reflects loss aversion, or the idea that losses generally have a much larger psychological impact than gains of the same size.

Connecting Quality People to
Quality Companies is Our Passion

 
Our job as professional recruiters is to identify, attract, evaluate, and help our clients land top talent for their team.   We are constantly working with quality individuals who are positioned for growth in their career and are open to or actively seeking to make a change.

If your team is seeking talent to make a positive difference in your ability to serve your customers, reach out to us and see if it is something we can assist you with.

Talented Candidates

Listed below are just a sampling of the talented candidates we have evaluated recently. If you would like to learn more about these or other candidates we have available, please contact us.
Automation Engineer with Ag based PLC, DCS programming experience in Missouri.
Sales professional in agronomy equipment and automation, territory management in the Midwest.
Grain and Agronomy professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experience (management, sales and operations) who desire to relocate in the Midwest.
Seed Sales, Brand Manager with a successful track record in the Midwest.
General Managers and CEO's looking to lead their next challenge.
Process Engineer with corn wet milling experience in Iowa.
Grain Merchandisers, Originators and Traders who are diversely talented, passionate and looking for new challenges.

Growing our Team with
People Passionate about Helping People

 

At AGRI-SEARCH, our mission states that we "are committed to serving the agricultural industry with integrity, passion and excellence by assisting our candidates to reach their career goals and helping our client companies build successful teams."

If you are competitive; have a strong sales mentality and don’t mind being told no; love connecting with and helping people; have a strong agricultural industry background in agronomy, grain, banking, equipment, or other areas and would enjoy the challenges of a recruiting career, contact Dave Allen. We would enjoy having a discussion with you.

About AGRI-SEARCH

 
Founded in 1995, AGRI-SEARCH is a professional recruiting firm providing clients with customized recruiting solutions in various niches within the agricultural industry. Our success results from our industry focus, our specialized approach to recruiting, and our staff's lifelong roots in, dedication to, and vast understanding and knowledge of the agricultural industry.
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