Understand the business
We begin with what the organization is trying to accomplish, not simply the words in a job description.
Our Story
Industry experience first.
Executive search second.
Precision Placements was built on a simple idea: the person helping you hire a textile or apparel executive should understand the business that executive will be asked to lead.
Why Precision Placements Exists
Built from the hiring side of the desk.
Before Precision Placements, Ken Edwards worked inside textile manufacturing as an Industrial Engineer, Production Manager, Plant Manager and Vice President of Operations.
That background meant hiring was never an abstract exercise. A weak hire affected production, customers, people and profitability. A strong hire could change the direction of an operation.
After working with search firms both as a hiring executive and as a candidate, Ken saw a recurring problem: recruiters could understand recruiting without truly understanding the industry, or understand the industry without delivering the level of professionalism a critical search deserved.
Precision Placements was founded in 1994 to bring those two disciplines together: industry knowledge and professional executive search.
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More than three decades of change. One consistent purpose.
Textiles and apparel have changed dramatically since Precision Placements began. The search business has changed too. The firm has adapted with both—without giving up the relationship-based approach on which it was built.
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Precision Placements founded
Created to combine first-hand textile operating experience with focused, professional recruiting.
1995
TextileJobs.com goes online
One of the industry's early specialized online destinations for textile and apparel professionals and employers.
Today
Senior, high-impact search
The practice is increasingly concentrated on leadership, sales, commercial and operating roles where one hire can materially affect the business.
What Has Not Changed
Technology evolves. Judgment and relationships still matter.
Precision Placements has always used new technology early—from TextileJobs.com in 1995 to professional networks, research tools and artificial intelligence today. But technology remains a tool, not the relationship.
Know the market
Decades in textiles and apparel provide context for the companies, functions, competitors and people that shape a search.
Evaluate beyond the resume
Experience matters. So do judgment, adaptability, integrity, leadership style, motivation and the ability to create results in a particular environment.
Protect the relationship
Clients and candidates deserve confidentiality, candor and long-term thinking. One placement is never more important than the trust behind it.
The Puzzle Piece
A brand built around fit—and Precision.
The puzzle-piece mark has represented Precision Placements since the firm's inception in 1994—more than 30 years. Its two pieces represent the company with a critical need and the candidate capable of filling it. The geometry also reflects Ken's engineering background and the idea behind the firm's name: important hires should not be treated as “close enough.”
The logo has endured because the principle behind it has endured. The objective is not simply to make a placement. It is to create the right match between an individual, an organization and the results both are trying to achieve.
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STAYING
POWER
Lessons from more than three decades of hiring, leadership and executive search
The Thinking Behind the Search
What makes someone continue creating value?
That question sits at the center of Ken's forthcoming book, Staying Power, and it also influences the way Precision Placements evaluates executives.
A successful search is not proven when a candidate accepts an offer. It is proven later—in the results produced, the relationships built, the ability to adapt and the value the individual continues to create as the business changes.
Staying Power develops those ideas through lessons drawn from operating businesses, hiring people and evaluating executives across more than three decades.
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