The high-touch, personalized, expert executive search support provided by the Cejka Search team has set the standard for the search industry. While our clients value our expertise and our experience, we value each opportunity to learn from them. These partnerships allow us to grow and find success together.
"Cejka is a truly professional search firm in every aspect. They bring a deep knowledge of the industry and present an accurate assessment of candidates, which directs searches accordingly. They truly work to understand the client's needs and business, creating a partnership which guides a search at an optimum level.
Primary to Cejka's working philosophy is a readiness and sustained service level, which is key to the needs of any search.
Cejka prides itself on building trust with clients, as well as a positive level of candor. This creates an exchange of information, sentiments, and priorities with clients that is unique in my experience with search firms."
Chad Cotter, Director, Talent Acquisition
Boston Medical Center
Search: Medical Director, Grayken Center for Addiction
“From our initial phone conversations, I knew that Cejka’s approach to helping us find prospective candidates would be proactive and thorough. Cejka has certainly met that expectation but also provided excellent insight into our needs, priorities and goals through careful interviews and helpful conversations. I was also very pleased with the candidate summaries and insights that were provided to us in preparation for interviews.
While changing a chief executive can be a challenging time for any company, Cejka provided support, feedback and structure that not only made the process successful but also enjoyable.”
Robert Suykerbuyk, MD
Partner and Practicing Physician (Former Chief Executive Officer)
Center for Primary Care
Search: Chief Executive Officer
"The service, communication, responsiveness, professionalism and expertise at Cejka was outstanding. They were responsive and supportive along the entire process and knew the candidates well. I felt like the firm was a partner and felt their support and concern that we hired the right person.”
Lorraine Frazier
Dean, School of Nursing
Columbia School of Nursing
Search Title: Vice Dean of Strategic and Innovative Research
"Paul Esselman and his team were outstanding in every respect. Paul was always available and ready to give advice if appropriate or solicited. The candidate slates were thorough, informative and unbiased.
I wouldn't hesitate to work with Cejka on any future searches."
Dr. Scott Reines
KidsPeace Board Chair
Search Title: Chief Executive Officer
"Mark Madden provided our search committee with the information needed to make the process of hiring a new CEO as seamless and stress free as possible. Cejka provided Meeker Memorial with an outstanding experience.
The goal of the search committee was to find the best candidates to fill the needs of Meeker Memorial now and in the future. Mark provided a list of candidates that met exactly what Meeker Memorial needed.
Meeker Memorial had the benefit of choosing from a great list of final candidates. Mark kept the search committee well informed during the recruiting process.
The process was carried out in a very professional and timely manner. Mark was a pleasure to work with during the process. Mark provided a commitment to Meeker Memorial Hospital to find the best possible CEO candidate to meet the current and future needs of our organization."
John Spreiter
Board Member/Search Committee Chair
Meeker Memorial Hospital
Search Title: Chief Executive Officer
"Our experience working with the Cejka team has been a good experience on several searches. They are patient and responsive to ensure that our needs are met despite the number of candidates that we may have to interview to find the right fit."
Carol Burrell, CEO
Northeast Georgia Health System
Multiple Searches
"I have worked with Joyce Tucker for many years and have gained much confidence in her passion to get us optimal results. She and her teams have gone beyond our expectations in utilizing their recruiting efforts to find us the "right" candidates for our higher-level positions. There has not been a challenge they have not met with the type of sense of urgency that I want my business partners to have. Because of this, I have full confidence whenever I engage them on a search, and it makes me proud to have brought them to our organization.
In a day when recruiting services like to say claim to be the best, do it different and have candidates that they really do not have, it is refreshing to work with an organization and individuals that do what they say they will do! "
Mark Morrison, Director of Professional Staff Services
Ochsner Health System
Multiple Searches
"Cejka was wonderful to work with. They have a sound, well thought-out and organized recruiting process. We hadn't recruited a CEO for years and required much guidance. Cejka was able to assist with a high-level plan, backed up with details that smoothly guided us through the recruiting process.
Cejka's executive team is very experienced, responsive and professional. Their communication was wonderful and their subject matter expertise was phenomenal.
Some of the most significant benefits our organization received, from partnering with Cejka, was their guidance on the types of candidates to seek out, their expertise on how to set up interview panels, including a mix of physicians, assistance with scoring interviews, as well as communication mechanisms to keep the entire organization apprised of our process and progress.
Cejka's facilitation and communications skills turned what would have been a much more stressful process into an easily manageable experience. Still much work, though much easier knowing we had a good executive and team to facilitate us through our recruitment."
Tammy Adler
Trustee, Past Board President
Sauk Prairie Healthcare
Search Title: Chief Executive Officer
"Involving Cejka in the search process greatly reduced the uncertainty and anxiety our board was feeling, as Cejka helped us to focus on what mattered most to the board and prepared us to take on a complex process in a series of simple steps.
Our health system was replacing a retiring leader of 20+ years, so we hadn't gone through this process before. In addition to a basic tactical approach, we needed help understanding the context in which we were recruiting and how best to craft our strategies and messaging to succeed in a competitive marketplace.
Cejka Search has demonstrated the highest level of skill and professionalism from the first meeting to discuss the RFP, to our most recent phone conversation last week. Mark and Rebecca certainly proved themselves to be experts in their craft, but they were careful to meet us at our level, helping us to get where we wanted to go, vs. talking down to us and/or directing our outcomes."
Jeff Borling, Board Chair/Search Committee Chair
St. Luke’s Health Care System
Duluth, MN
Search Title: Chief Executive Officer
"It was a great, positive experience. As a board we were very pleased with the work and felt that Mark listened to us and provided great guidance.
Mark provided guidance through the whole process, up to interviewing and selection.
We would recommend the services of Cejka."
Frances Valdez
Board Chair/Search Committee Chair
Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc.
Search Title: Chief Executive Officer
"We just started using Joyce Tucker and her team last year, and Cejka is already our primary source of executive and clinical leadership searches.
We have been completely satisfied in all aspects of the search process, including the most important part - the candidates who we have eventually hired."
Jordy Rabinowitz, Senior Vice President Human Resources
Westchester Medical Center
Multiple Searches