In 2001, William Wood and Stephen Snodgrass founded and incorporated the Kansas Corporation of Wood-Snodgrass, Inc.

Prior to this, Bill and Steve had been Co-Principals of the Executive Search Division within DeFrain-Mayer, a long established Midwest Regional Human Resources Consulting Firm.

The decision to purchase the Executive Search Practice from DeFrain-Mayer was the right time in that the Regional Firm had been purchased two years earlier by a National Company, Palmer & Cay out of Savannah, Georgia. As a result, Bill and Steve strategically determined their desire to remain a “Boutique Firm” and to offer specialized / designed executive search and management consulting ….. And, it is that proven set of methodologies practiced by Wood-Snodgrass all of these years that have kept their firm so very active with multiple recruiting assignments for an array of clients throughout many industries.

The consistent industries Wood-Snodgrass, Inc. have served during this past decade has been as follows:

• Telecommunications
• Medical
• Financial; including insurance, banking, investments, etc.
• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Non-Profit Associations, Societies and other similar organizations
• International, including Mexico, Canada, UK and Germany

There are many differentiating factors Wood-Snodgrass, Inc offer their clients that attract the repeat business activities among their clientele:

• At the top of the list is that Bill and Steve ‘do ALL the work’
• Both Partners work on each assignment…..one taking the “lead role” for purpose of accountability to the contact person for which they represent
• Candidates are fully qualified, including;
• Face to face interviews
• Reference checks
• Background checks, degree verification and drug testing
• Whether a $400k plus compensation for an executive search assignment or a $70k per year search for a Director/Manager level….Bill and Steve apply their successful methods/practices and deliver them each and every time.
• New and fresh research is applied to each search assignment based on the set of parameters the client shares with Wood-Snodgrass, Inc for their current hiring need(s)….NO OLD Data Bases of people “looking for a job” are utilized…

Several important observations have been given to Bill and Steve during these past ten years… Which, Bill and Steve have appreciated and believe speak volumes as to why they are repeatedly retained –

• One of the clients has hired Wood-Snodgrass Inc. eight times within a 15 month period for various search assignments around the USA
• A particular manufacturing company in the middle of Kansas has utilized Wood-Snodgrass, Inc. sixteen times during the past five and a half years….including:
• CFO
• International Sales
• General Sales Manager for the USA
• Two important hires in the UK within the first year of that UK company being acquired by the Kansas Mfg. Company
• One Sales Territory Manager for Mexico and one for Canada
• Plant Manager
• Engineers
• Project Managers
• Outside Territory Sales Managers within the USA
• In addition, four different Not-for-Profit Associations hired Wood-Snodgrass, Inc. a second time…
• One organization in Ohio hired the firm after the Executive Director was recruited away after being with them seven year….Bill and Steve successfully filled that position again
• Another Association in Arizona did the exact same thing after nine years of their ED being with them
• And, there were two other Associations…one in St. Louis, Missouri and one in Topeka, Kansas that reengaged Wood-Snodgrass, inc after the CEO’s Wood-Snodgrass brought them the first time had left after five and four years, respectively.