Recruiting, executive search and staffing
We help American family-owned companies hire the sales leaders, engineers, operations leaders and executives who carry the business forward. We are a family business too, and we work like one: a small number of clients, for a long time.
Crossley Staffing in brief
Crossley Staffing is a family-owned recruiting, executive search and staffing firm based in Marietta, Georgia, owned and run by Jacob and Joy Crossley. It works with American family-owned, U.S.-headquartered companies in Industrial Automation, Packaging and Processing, and Material Handling, recruiting sales and commercial leaders, executives, engineers and operations leaders, and placing skilled professional and technical contractors. It also provides staffing and professional services to federal agencies.
Industries
Robots load packaging lines. Conveyors feed palletizers. Controls and software tie it all together. Many of the companies we work with sit in more than one of these industries, and the best people often move between them. Knowing all three makes each search sharper.
Robotics, controls and PLCs, motion control, sensors and machine vision, and the industrial software that runs production.
The companies that build the machinery: filling, sealing, labeling, cartoning, processing, converting, inspection and end-of-line equipment.
Conveyors, AS/RS, sortation and palletizing, lifting and positioning equipment, and the warehouse software that coordinates them.
Services
Direct-hire search for the roles that matter most, and contract staffing when you need skilled people for a stretch of work.
The people who understand your products, your customers and your channel are hard to find and costly to get wrong. They also carry the relationships that connect these industries. We recruit them with the same care as any engineering or executive search.
Sales and commercial leadershipPresidents, general managers and functional leaders for the roles that shape the next chapter of a family company.
More on executive searchAutomation, controls, software, mechanical, electrical and applications engineers, and the people who lead engineering teams.
More on engineeringManufacturing, plant, supply chain, project and service leaders who keep your commitments to customers.
More on operationsSkilled professional and technical contractors on our W-2, for project load, coverage and longer assignments.
More on staffingHow we work
Fewer clients. Longer relationships. Search number ten should start with everything search number one taught us.
Your products, customers, managers, how you interview and why people stay. Every search adds to it, so the next one starts further ahead.
We search broadly and present narrowly: a few credible people, each with a candid brief that includes our concerns, not a stack of résumés.
If the pay, the location or the profile will not work, you hear it from us early, along with what would.
You make the hire. We run the process, keep it moving, and stay involved through the offer, the start date and the months after.
Why family-owned
Family-owned companies often build exceptional products and treat people well, and many are better employers than their public profile suggests. That gap is where a good recruiter earns their keep: telling your story accurately to people who would never have found you on their own.
We are owned by a family too, so we understand what it means when the name on the building is yours, and why a single leadership hire can matter for years.
Why we focus on family-owned companiesOutside that description? We still take on work that is a good fit for both sides. Just ask.
Selected recruiting experience
We keep current client relationships confidential. What we can share is a small set of examples from Jacob's recruiting career, each labeled with the company, the kind of roles, his part in the work and when it happened. Experience at earlier employers is shown as exactly that, not as a list of Crossley Staffing clients.
[Jacob to choose and confirm 3 to 6 examples, with permission where needed. Short written outcomes work better than logos alone.]
The owners
Jacob leads client relationships and searches. Joy leads our federal work, along with HR and finance. You will deal with an owner, not a handoff.
About Crossley StaffingFor professionals
We would like to know you before there is a job. When we call, it is about a real role at a company we know well, and we will tell you what we know, including the parts a job posting leaves out.
For professionalsFederal
Crossley Staffing provides staffing and professional services to federal customers as an SBA-certified women-owned small business, with a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract.
Federal staffing and servicesInsights
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ReadBoth models have a place. The right choice depends on how consequential the role is, how hard it is to fill, and what you want from the process.
ReadMany family companies are better places to work than their public profile suggests. Closing that gap is one of the most useful things you can do in hiring.
ReadA clear brief is the cheapest way to improve a hire. These five questions take an hour and can save months.
ReadTell us about the role and the business behind it. We will tell you honestly how we would approach it, and whether we are the right firm for it.