Executive and professional search in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hawthorne Recruitment is an executive and professional search firm serving Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the wider Halifax Regional Municipality. Based in Dartmouth, the firm runs retained searches for senior leadership and specialist professional roles across the sectors that shape the region. Every search Hawthorne takes on in Halifax gets the full attention of the firm.

Recruiting in Halifax

Halifax is a mid-sized city with a tight-knit professional community. Word travels. Discretion matters. The strongest leadership candidates are almost never on job boards. They are working, contributing and largely invisible to firms that rely on postings and databases.

What works in Halifax is relationships: long-term, trusted, built over years of conversations with people who know you and take your call. Hawthorne's founder, Scott McGaw, has more than 15 years in search, and the firm was built on the relationships that come with that.

Based in Dartmouth

Hawthorne Recruitment was founded and is based in Dartmouth, across the harbour from downtown Halifax. Dartmouth and Halifax share one talent pool and one professional community, where reputations travel and business is built on long-term relationships rather than transactional speed. The firm's searches range from Halifax-based roles to Atlantic-regional mandates and national searches for organizations with Nova Scotia ties.

What Hawthorne recruits in Halifax

Chief executive and executive leadership roles, vice-president and director positions, board appointments, and mid-to-senior professional roles across functions. Sectors include:

• Real Estate & Development
• Construction & Infrastructure
• Technology
• Energy & Renewables
• Healthcare
• Professional Services
• Nonprofit & Social Sector
• Government & Public Sector
• Financial Services & Insurance
• Legal
• Education & Post-Secondary
• Arts, Culture & Tourism

Why retained search, not contingency

In a market as closely connected as Halifax, your choice of search firm affects more than one hire. It affects your organization's reputation with the candidate community. A retained search firm represents you carefully and treats every candidate with honesty and respect, whether or not they are ultimately the right fit. That approach is how Hawthorne has built the relationships that make its searches work.

See how Hawthorne works with hiring organizations, learn about executive search, or read how to choose a recruitment firm in Halifax.