YOUR RECRUITER SHOULDN'T NEED A TECHNOLOGY LESSON.
Konezion is a Chicago-based search firm founded by a technology executive. We understand the systems, projects, and business challenges behind the job description — because we've worked on them ourselves.
Most recruiters read the job description.
We've done it.
A staffing firm can source resumes for almost any role. Far fewer can tell whether a candidate's "cloud migration experience" means they ran the project or watched it happen. That gap costs you time: vague screening, mismatched candidates, and a recruiter who needs you to explain the role back to them before they can explain it to anyone else.
Konezion was founded by a technology executive with 20+ years running enterprise IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business systems — including two decades as CIO of a national employment-services organization. We're not guessing at what "DevOps," "enterprise architecture," or "Digital Transformation" actually require.
We've been the person hiring for those roles, and the person doing them.
Where We Recruit
Konezion recruits for technology, accounting & finance, and executive roles — weighted heavily toward technology, because that's where our founder's own operating experience runs deepest.
Engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data & architecture, cloud, CRM/Salesforce, digital workplace, and technical leadership roles — evaluated by someone who has built and run these functions, not just sourced for them.
Example roles: Software Engineers, DevOps/Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data Architects/Engineers, IT Directors & Managers, CIO/CTO.
Technology
Accounting & Finance
Individual contributors through finance leadership, screened with an accounting foundation of our own.
Example roles: Staff/Senior Accountants, Controllers, FP&A, Finance Managers, Directors of Finance.
Executive & C-Level
Senior leadership searches — including technology, finance, and operating roles — run with discretion and evaluated peer-to-peer.
Example roles: CIO, CTO, CFO, COO, VP-level and above.
The recruiter is the first impression of your company.
Send an executive.
Strong candidates — especially at the technology and executive level — can tell within the first few minutes of a call whether they're talking to someone who understands their work or someone reading from a script. A senior engineer being pitched by a generalist recruiter, or a CFO candidate fielding a call from someone a year out of school, disengages fast — not out of arrogance, but because the conversation isn't worth their time.
The best way to attract an executive is to have an executive in the room. Every Konezion search is led with that same standard: outreach and screening conducted by someone with real operating experience in the function being hired for, not a script read on their behalf.
Understand — We start with what you're actually trying to accomplish: the problem the role needs to solve, not just the requirements list.
Scope — We translate that into a real evaluation criteria — technical depth, financial judgment, or leadership scope, depending on the role.
Source — We reach active and passive candidates, tracking every outreach from first contact.
Evaluate — Candidates are screened by someone fluent in the work, not just the resume language.
Close — We stay engaged through offer, negotiation, and acceptance.
Expertise finds the right person.
Structure keeps the search on track.
Beyond placements:
strategy, support, and special projects
Not every engagement is a search. Organizations also bring Konezion in for technology and operations strategy, interim support during a transition, and specific special projects that need someone who's actually run the function before — not just advised on it from the outside.
Built from experience, not a demo
KORE is the platform Konezion built to run its own searches — designed from real recruiting experience and an actual operational need, not assembled to showcase AI. It helps track candidates and manage pipelines with the same structure described above. KORE is available to other recruiting and professional-services teams who want it.
Led by someone who's done the job
Konezion isn't run by career recruiters. It's run by a technology executive who spent 20+ years building and operating the systems, teams, and budgets behind the roles we now recruit for.
Tell us what you're trying to accomplish.
Whether it's one critical role, an ongoing search partnership, or a project that needs a hands-on technology executive, we'll start by understanding the actual problem — not just the job title.
