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Our Toronto Recruiters are Industry Experts
We don’t recruit the best headhunters in Toronto by accident. IQ PARTNERS has become one of Canada’s top Executive Search & Recruitment agencies through experience. Our top headhunters hire on a local (Toronto), national (Montreal to Vancouver), and global level. Choose an agency sector to find a recruitment specialist for your hiring needs below.
Why Choose IQ PARTNERS?
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Toronto Market Knowledge with Canadian Reach
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Headhunters Who Know Your Industry
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Stronger Candidate Quality, Not More Noise
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Flexible Recruitment Models for Toronto Employers
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A Long-Term Recruitment Partner
How We Help You Hire Better
Our Toronto recruitment process is built for employers who need speed, precision, and better-fit talent. As one of the more established recruiting firms in Toronto, we combine local search expertise with disciplined assessment and follow-through.
Understand the Role, Team & Hiring Challenge
We begin with a detailed intake to define the role, reporting structure, required experience, and the qualities that make someone successful in your organization.
Build a Focused Search Strategy
We map the local talent market, identify target companies and candidate profiles, and determine where the best talent is likely to come from.
Proactively Recruit and Engage Talent
Our Toronto headhunters reach out directly to qualified professionals, including passive candidates who are not actively applying through job boards.
Evaluate for Skills, Fit & Hiring Risk
We interview and qualify candidates using a structured process that looks beyond resumes to assess experience, communication, motivation, and alignment with your business.
Support Selection, Offer & Retention
We help through interviews, references, offer close, and onboarding, then stay involved after placement to help ensure a successful long-term hire.
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FAQs
How do you ensure candidate quality?
Our recruiters spend hundreds of hours each month maintaining active relationships with candidates. We conduct in-depth vetting, cultural alignment assessments, and reference checks before introducing candidates to clients.
What industries does IQ PARTNERS specialize in?
Our recruitment specialists cover 17 practice areas, including finance, accounting, SaaS, technology, healthcare, sales, HR, digital media, marketing, and more, making us one of the most versatile recruitment firms in Canada.
Do you only recruit in Toronto?
No. While our headquarters are in Toronto, we actively recruit in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Calgary/Edmonton, as well as internationally for select executive roles.
Do you work with startups as well as large enterprises?
Absolutely. We partner with startups, high-growth companies, and Fortune 500 enterprises, adapting our approach to suit each company’s size, goals, and hiring needs.
How large is your candidate network?
We maintain a database of hundreds of thousands of professionals across dozens of industries. Our recruiters talk to hundreds of candidates every day, ensuring fresh and updated connections with top candidates that can’t be found on job sites or in databases.
What are your recruitment fee structures?
Our recruiting firm offers multiple pricing models, including percentage-based fees, flat project fees, and hourly consulting rates. We also provide partner programs for ongoing hiring needs with volume discounts.
Testimonials
What Our Recruitment Clients Have To Say About Us:
Hear how our clients thought their experience with IQ PARTNERS differed from other recruitment agencies.
Arthur and Tom, John St.
"The single biggest differentiator in our business is our people, and working with IQ PARTNERS gives me the confidence to know that we'll be able to recruit great people."
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Philip Filippopoulos, CFO, Dentsu Aegis Network Canada
"We are a high performing organization, and that's a quality that IQ PARTNERS personifies well. So that's why they make a good partner; a perfect partner for us."
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Our Recruitment Service Plans
Our recruiters are flexible in their approach and will gladly help you find the most effective and convenient way to work with a recruitment agency.
Our Recruitment Fee Structure
Includes our complete search process
Guaranteed results
Multiple pricing plans
Requires 150-250 hours of work on average
À La Carte
Designed for execution of individual sections of the search process
Added flexibility
Your choice of search-process steps
Hourly or project pricing
Partner Program
Ideal for clients with ongoing resourcing requirements
Enables cost savings up to 50%
Customizable agreements
Contract Placement
Typically charged on an hourly-rate basis
Hourly rates
Pricing includes markup
Rates based on contract length, scope
IQ PARTNERS can payroll candidate
Our Fee Structure
Percentage
Our Most popular option
Starting at 25% (of annual target compensation) and eligible for volume discount. To ensure value we can also cap our fees at a pre-stated, mutually agreeable amount.
Project or Flat Fee
Based on estimated hours
Allows you to budget your expenditure in advance and choose from a la carte services. Lengthier engagements increase our efficiency and your savings.
Hourly
Ideal for unpredictable projects
We maintain competitive hourly rates that reflect the value of our services. Our unique expertise lets us resolve problems in the most efficient, cost-effective manner possible.