Straight answers.

No. Compass Group Recruiting LLC is an independent, family-owned manufacturing recruiting firm in Missoula, Montana, founded by Hans and Bridget. We are not part of Compass Group USA or Compass Group PLC. Read the full answer.

Our emails come from @compassgrouprecruiting.com, we never charge you to apply, and you can confirm any contact by calling 313-MFG-JOBS (313) 634-5627. Read the full answer.

No. Applying, normal placements, resume submission and relocation help are free. The only candidate-paid service is the optional Dream Job Placement program. Read the full answer.

Our fees are published: 25% with a 60-day guarantee, 30% with 120 days, or 33% with 180 days on contingency searches, with no upfront search fee. Retained searches are 20 to 28% with half up front. Read the full answer.

Use contingency when you want to pay only on a hire: 25%, 30% or 33% with no upfront fee. Use retained when the role is critical and you want an exclusive, committed search: 20%, 25% or 28%, with half paid up front. Read the full answer.

A placement guarantee is the window a recruiter stands behind a hire. Ours run 60, 120 or 180 days on contingency and retained searches, and 90 or 180 days on volume agreements. The guarantee you choose sets the fee. Read the full answer.

No. A manufacturing recruiter finds the right person for one of your openings, including people who are not applying anywhere, and your plant hires them directly. We are a recruiting firm, we recruit for manufacturing only, and we don’t do warehouse or medical staffing. Read the full answer.

A manufacturing headhunter is a recruiter who goes after skilled manufacturing people who are not looking for a job: machinists, maintenance techs, engineers and plant leaders already working somewhere else. That is most of what we do. Read the full answer.

A manufacturing recruiter defines the real job with the plant, builds the market of people who can do it, screens them, and stays involved through the offer. We call it understand, search, screen, close. Read the full answer.