Hire Better. Hire Less. Retain More.

Canada's Leading Executive Search & Recruitment Agency

Our service plans are flexible and IQ PARTNERS will gladly help you find the most effective and convenient way to work with us. We currently offer:

• Full Service
• A La Carte
• Partner Program
• Contract Placement

Our recruiters are experts in many industries including but not limited to:

• Executive / Board & C-Suite
• Technology
• Media, Digital, and Marketing
• Accounting
• Financial Services and Insurance
• Cannabis
• Startup
• Data Scientist
• Consumer, eCommerce, and Retail
• Operations and HR
• Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Engineering
• Legal and Professional Services
• Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
• Sales

Partnering with IQ PARTNERS can save you a great deal of time, money, and resources you’d otherwise be spending on the hiring process. Let our headhunters use their experience and vast & current networks to find the best candidates for your role so you can focus on what you do best: growing your business.

And our help on-boarding, our follow up 30, 60 & 90 days with both you and your new employee and our counsel as an experienced, external recruitment partner helps you not only hire smarter but hire less and retain more.

We are a direct-contact recruitment agency, meaning we don’t just advertise your position. We proactively recruit the superstars who will make a real difference to your team. Our headhunters know the best people rarely look for their next job; they’re actively recruited. That means we deliver not just the best people on the market but the best people in the market.

Once we’ve identified a shortlist of potential candidates, IQ PARTNERS utilizes a proprietary candidate assessment tool called smartFACTOR™ that gets past a candidate’s effort to sell themselves and scores them 3 critical attributes critical to success in today’s workplace.

Yes, our recruitment agency provides both temporary and permanent placement services.

As a recruitment agency that helps other companies hire better, it is our responsibility to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion within our own organization, and to help our clients build diverse and inclusive teams. To ensure that our recruitment efforts reflect the best DEI practices, EVERY employee of IQ PARTNERS has completed at least 10 hours of DEI Training.

Yes, while our recruitment agency is based in Toronto we are constantly recruiting people for positions across Canada and internationally. In the last six months we’ve recruited for positions in everywhere from the Okanagan to Halifax and from the U.S. to Europe. And, our deep networks in 17 specialties ranging from Accounting to Tech, means we know where to find the top talent no matter where they’re located across Canada or beyond our borders.

A headhunter is someone who can connect smart people currently working for someone else with great companies seeking the talent that can take them to the next level.