DWS ProSearch

DWS ProSearch is a boutique recruiting firm that places candidates in sales, accounting and leadership roles. It describes itself as an executive search firm rather than a temporary or staffing agency, and says it focuses exclusively on permanent, professional-level placements. Its legal name is DWS Professional Search Group, LLC, and it is a Direct Workforce Solutions company.

Sales roles range from sales development and business development representatives to enterprise account executives and directors of sales. Accounting roles run from staff accountant to CFO, including controllers and accounting managers. Leadership searches cover director level through the C-suite, such as managing directors, chief revenue officers and operations leaders. The firm works across a range of industries.

It serves clients in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and says it can search for candidates anywhere in the US. Its process begins with a discovery conversation, followed by outreach to passive candidates and several rounds of screening before a small shortlist is presented. Fees are paid by the hiring company, not by candidates. The firm is owned by Frank Pastorino, who has over two decades of executive recruitment experience, including nine years as a vice president at a national staffing firm.