We’re not a recruitment agency, and we’re not an outsourcing firm. Instead, we empower your internal team with the right processes, tools, and training to thrive.
Our mission is simple: guide you to success, equip you with everything you need, and then hand over the reins—leaving you with a high-performing recruitment function, free from long-term dependency or ongoing costs.
John Gates, Founder of Recruiting Transformations, has been building and rebuilding recruitment functions for Fortune 500 companies since 2002. With extensive experience across industries like technology, finance, healthcare, and defense, John has earned a reputation as a turnaround specialist—focused on optimizing underperforming talent teams and restoring their place as valued assets within the company.
In 2016, John founded Recruiting Transformations to address the challenges faced by CHROs struggling with slow, inefficient recruiting functions. Specializing in medium-sized companies, Recruiting Transformations is dedicated to helping businesses hire faster without sacrificing quality or blowing through their budgets.
Strategic Leadership: Known for providing interim recruiting leadership and guidance during critical transitions, stabilizing teams while helping organizations hire the right long-term leader.
Process Transformation: Over 20 years of experience rebuilding and optimizing recruitment functions for some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations.
Industry Experience: Broad knowledge across industries such as technology, finance, healthcare, defense, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, including both union and non-union environments.
Metrics-Driven Solutions: A relentless focus on improving key recruitment metrics, including time to hire, quality of hire, and cost per hire. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Proven Track Record: Expertise in diagnosing broken recruiting systems and transforming them into efficient, scalable functions. Most clients engaged in recruiting speed improvements see a 30-50% reduction in time to fill once changes are fully implemented.
John’s hands-on approach and industry knowledge make him a trusted advisor to CHROs and senior leaders who are committed to improving their internal recruitment capabilities. His mission is simple: help companies build high-performing recruitment functions that don’t depend on external headhunters, empowering internal teams to thrive.
Is your recruitment process costing too much or yielding high turnover rates? Are you facing challenges with candidate quality, a slow hiring timeline, or a negative perception from hiring managers and candidates? Understanding these pain points is the first step towards a more efficient and effective recruitment process.
We dive deep into your recruitment function, Identifying hidden obstacles in your current process or structure. We create a tailored roadmap that eliminates inefficiencies and provides a clear path to a future-ready recruitment process, benefiting all stakeholders.
Recruiting Transformations is not a Recruiting Agency. We work exclusively on helping you to build the process, structure, and tools to avoid costly hiring mistakes and over-dependence on Recruiting Agencies. If you want to hire us to source candidates, we will recommend some very strong solutions, but we don’t directly oversee the sourcing process.
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