How This Newport Beach CEO Followed a Dream and Started Her Own Recruiting Company

Orange Coast Magazine details Suzanne’s professional history and the start of her business, Blake Rian Consulting. She discusses the challenges she had starting a new recruiting company, how she distinguishes her company from competitors in the industry and gives advice to other business owners.

I incorporated my vision of building meaningful, long-lasting relationships and created a vision for my company. The company’s main goal is to partner with our clients and candidates to truly understand what each side is looking to achieve during the hiring process.

What is the most rewarding aspect of your work?

The most rewarding aspect of my job is helping both the clients and the candidates, it sets us apart as we care about these parties equally. Just the other day a candidate I placed over 5 years ago, reached out to thank me for helping him find a job. He said he wanted to wish my family well during the Covid-19 pandemic, but he also assumed I would not know who he was. I told him I not only remembered when I placed him but I also who he was. Blake Rian Consulting is not just putting bodies in seats, we genuinely care about the people we are working with and are acutely aware of the impact we have on their lives as a whole not just in business. It really is an amazing feeling knowing you helped someone take care of their family. These are the moments that remind me why I love this industry and stories like his are what make the long hours and hard work worth it.

The same goes for my business clients, when I know we helped them fill a valuable need in their organization. The work we do is incredibly rewarding.

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