What Others Say About Us:

Over the years we have successfully completed many unique and challenging search assignments. Here is a sample of comments that we have received acknowledging our work. Identifying information is not included due to privacy considerations, but this information will happily be provided on request.  

"I have known John Keister and the Stanton Group for over 10 years, and have worked extensively with John in the past to conduct hiring searches and to gather information about the state of the process, quality, and metrics communities in the software industry. I have found John to be easy to work with, knowledgeable, and professional in multiple searches over many years.

“In particular, for several different work teams that I have managed, John has helped me to clarify the skills and capabilities of the people that I needed to hire for these teams, reviewed people from the extensive list of contacts that he maintains in these very specialized areas of expertise, and selected those that best fit my needs. He was always very flexible in changing the parameters used to select applicants, and greatly assisted me by reducing the amount of time that I needed to spend screening candidates for my positions.

“John has always shown the utmost integrity in working with me, keeping our job requirements and needs confidential, and also working with his clients to protect their information and career opportunities. John is very trustworthy, meeting his commitments and fulfilling his promises in all cases. He is also very open, and will let people that he works with know if he does not have expertise in a particular area, or if he needs additional information in order to complete the work that he is doing.

“It has been a pleasure for me to work with John and his wife Beth in previous hiring searches, and I know that others have also thought highly of John (people in other Business Units, HR and other hiring organizations, etc). He is a highly skilled professional with high integrity. I can recommend John without reservation."

- Director of Process and Quality Excellence
Fortune 100 Global Communications Leader
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"I have known John Keister for eight years over which time John sourced engineering professionals for me when I was Vice President of Research and Development.

“I cannot overemphasize how delighted I was with the service John provided for me. He was able to find and recruit some of the very best software engineering process improvement professionals I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Moreover he did this at a time when all software professionals were in very short supply, and finding and recruiting top talent was almost impossible.

“Besides John's ability to source top talent, I feel one of his most valuable attributes is his unimpeachable integrity. Rather than provide me a less than superior candidate, John would often discourage me from hiring an individual who he researched and found to be below the very high standards he set - even at the cost of potentially losing a placement.

“It is both an honor and a privilege to give John my highest unequivocal endorsement.”

- Vice President of Research and Development, Leading Global Provider of Voice and Data Networking Solutions
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"It is my pleasure to provide a letter of reference for Mr. John Keister. I first met John approximately five years ago when I was in need of a highly skilled and professional personnel recruiter. At that time, I was the Director of Process and Product Quality.

“To be quite frank, I had had some less than enjoyable experiences with professional recruiters in my career and was not looking forward to dealing with another one. However, after meeting with John, I was very impressed with his professional demeanor and overall approach to his job. Over the years, I used John exclusively for my professional placement requirements. I found his integrity to be without question and his tactics to be ethical and above reproach. John was always able to exceed our expectations and the quality of his service was simply outstanding.

“I would highly recommend John for any position where professionalism, pride of workmanship, and integrity are required."

- Director Corporate Quality, Process Improvement Leading Medical Technology Company