Built by someone who's been
inside the operation.
Yield Search Group was built at the intersection of two worlds most recruiting firms never touch at the same time: food manufacturing operations and technical executive search.
Our founder spent years building a wholesale protein distribution business from cold calls and relationship capital — selling MSC, MDM, CBCO, and commodity beef and pork to food production plants, processors, and distributors. That work meant living inside the language of yield, trim loss, throughput, USDA compliance, and what happens to a plant when the right production manager walks out the door.
Before that, years in senior technical recruiting at one of New York's most respected search firms — placing executive talent at PE-backed companies, fintech startups, and financial services firms. That's where the discipline of search was built: how to source, how to qualify, how to close, and how to build a process that doesn't rely on luck.
Yield Search Group is what happens when you put those two things together. We built an AI scoring engine that evaluates every candidate against food manufacturing-specific criteria — HACCP certification, USDA audit history, throughput background, shift structure experience — before a human being gets involved. The result is a search process where our recruiters spend 100% of their time on candidates who actually fit, not sorting through noise.
We named the firm after the metric that defines success in food manufacturing. Yield is what every Plant Manager, Production Manager, and COO is chasing every single day. It's the right word for what we do — help operations get more out of the most important input: their people.
Scott has spent his career in high-velocity B2B sales and executive search — from wholesale protein commodity distribution at Austin Meat & Seafood to senior technical recruiting at The Goodkind Group (acquired by CoreTech/Magic Software). He brings rare operational fluency in both food manufacturing and the science of finding and placing exceptional talent.
What we stand for.
Operator Fluency
We know the floor. HACCP, USDA audits, throughput targets, trim loss — this is our native language. We evaluate candidates the way a COO would, not the way a generalist HR firm would.
Transparency
Every score is explainable. Every recommendation comes with data. If we think a candidate has a gap, we say so — with specifics. You make informed decisions, not hopeful ones.
Speed with Signal
48 hours to first slate isn't a marketing line — it's built into every engagement. AI handles the volume so our humans can focus entirely on candidates who score high enough to be worth your time.
Accountability
We put our name on every placement. The 6-month guarantee isn't fine print — it's the core of how we operate. If a high-score candidate doesn't perform, we fix it.
Candidate Respect
Every candidate gets a score breakdown and honest feedback. Even when it's a no. People remember how they were treated — and they become referrals, future applicants, and advocates.
Continuous Improvement
Every placement outcome feeds back into our scoring model. Our data gets sharper, our predictions get better, and our clients get better hires over time. The system compounds.
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