Craig S. Collins

As Principal and Founder of Collins Associates Inc., Mr. Collins’ twenty plus years of corporate, retainer and contingency recruiting experience provide him a unique understanding of the staffing industry.

Mr. Collins began his recruiting career in 1985 when he joined Setford-Shaw Inc., a New York based Information Technology search firm. He spent five years recruiting for the banking/brokerage and software development industries before leaving in 1990 to open Collins Personnel Inc. For the six years that followed Collins Personnel Inc. served the staffing needs of public and private companies in the software development and financial services industries.

Mr. Collins joined Sybase Inc. as a consultant in 1996 where he managed the New York Professional Services recruiting team for the next two years. Upon completion of his assignment at Sybase Inc. Mr. Collins accepted a short contract in the Technology Infrastructure department of Merrill Lynch.

In 1998 Mr. Collins joined DoubleClick, a marketing solutions company, as a contract recruiter. Within six months he was hired as the Director of Recruiting and over the next three and a half years built and managed a team of twenty-five (25) throughout the United States and Canada. At DoubleClick Mr. Collins was responsible for the design and implementation of all staffing policies, procedures and programs. In addition Mr. Collins gained experience in Talent Planning, Career Pathing, Succession Planning, Campus Recruiting, On-Boarding and a host of other staffing related topics.

He was a "First Advisor Member" of the Corporate Leadership Council's Recruiting Roundtable, and a member of the New York Technical Recruiters Association (NYTRA). He also sat on the Advisory Board of NextSource, a company that designs, develops and implements innovative web-based Human Capital Management Solutions.

A native of New York, Mr. Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Economics from the State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1983. He resides on Long Island.

Craig can be reached at craig@casearch.net