People over paper. Quality over quantity. Relationships over resumes.

techVenture was founded in 1996, with a clear mission: to provide a relationship-based recruiting service, one that meets the needs of both pre-public new technology companies and the top-notch talent that powers them. techVenture goes beyond superficial resume analysis, understanding the people behind the resumes, to achieve superb "fit" between the two parties.

Investing in people is perhaps second only in importance to a company's product or service itself. In some ways, it is even more important, as even a superior product cannot succeed in the marketplace without a talented force of individuals to develop, promote and back it up. Apart from offering attractive stock options and benefits packages, how does a young company with limited personnel resources increase its chances of making good hiring decisions? Managers are obliged to juggle product development and the demands of the search process simultaneously. The search, screening and selection process, as anyone who has gone through it knows, is highly labor-intensive and time-consuming.

To resolve this dilemma, I developed a relationship-based recruiting methodology, centering on a three-way relationship between the company, the employee and the recruiter. This methodology springs from the time-honored principle, "Know your people." Rather than culling through hundreds of anonymous resumes, the search is narrowed to a pool of highly qualified and targeted individuals, men and women from both the employer and the candidate sides who are well-known to the professional recruiter. It is the middleman who creates the match. The time saved by accessing a targeted database of potential "high-stakes hires" -- and the mistakes avoided -- more than compensates for the recruiter's fee. A long-term relationship between recruiter and corporation, involving numerous high-stakes hires, achieves further return on investment.

It takes a well-qualified high-stakes-hire recruiting professional to deliver the right candidate on time. For the start-up company with a project due in six months, that key employee could be hard to find without the right help. techVenture takes the attitude that, like a marriage, the fit between the two parties in an employment match should be just right. Only in the context of such a perfect fit can both parties achieve their full potential. techVenture associate is such a recruiter, bringing firms and force together. The best marriage matches might indeed be made in Heaven, as the saying goes. In Silicon Valley, the best recruitment matches are made by techVenture.

Fadi Bishara
Founder & CEO, techVenture