Who We Are
Three generations of recruiting. One obsession: quality.
Talent Authority Partners is a boutique, founder-led executive search firm based in the United States. We recruit the way we'd want to be recruited for: personally, thoroughly, and to a standard we'd accept for our own company.
generation recruiter
in recruiting
minimum experience on our bench
led by our founder
01 · Our story
Our founder grew up in recruiting firms.
Jonathan Tureau's father ran a boutique engineering, technical and accounting recruiting firm in Houston when Jonathan was born, and built it into one of the city's top engineering recruiting firms, later focused on oil and gas and technology. His grandparents ran a recruiting firm of their own. That makes Jonathan a third-generation recruiter.
His grandparents
His father
Jonathan
As a kid, he helped the old-school way, working through filing cabinets of résumés and referrals to find matches for the roles the recruiters on the floor were trying to fill.
He never planned to follow them. After high school he went into door-to-door sales, showed a knack for it, and was asked to try recruiting. One search was all it took. Everything he'd absorbed growing up came rushing back, and within his first year at a recruiting firm he went from new hire to senior recruiter on results alone.
Communication didn't come naturally to him. Jonathan had to build the skill of talking with people on purpose, and he kept at it until it was dependable. What did come naturally was his talent for building systems: repeatable frameworks that give every candidate, hiring manager and client the same exceptional experience, and that take routine work off his plate so the moments that need a human get his full attention. That's the firm he built.
Jonathan would rather pay more for one thing that lasts than save a little now and buy it again and again. It's true of what he buys, what he eats and who he works with. TAP runs on the same rule. A fast, cheap hire that doesn't last costs far more than the right one who stays, so we do more on every search than most firms think is necessary. We're not a marketing machine. We're a boutique, white-glove search firm: hyper-targeted, personal and close to every search we take on.
02 · How we recruit
The standards behind every search.
We evaluate every candidate as if we were the ones making the hire and spending the money.
Every candidate we present is someone we'd stand behind for our own company.
Our goal is your hire from the first two candidates we present, so the only hard part is choosing between them.
We earn repeat clients the only way that lasts: results, and an experience candidates and hiring managers remember.
03 · Where we've recruited
Every search we've run makes the next one sharper.
Recruiting across this many companies, industries and countries has shown us how great teams get built in very different places, from inside Google, Chewy, Fiserv, Western Union, DISH and HomeAdvisor to seed-stage startups. We bring those patterns to every search.
Across our careers, we've recruited for organizations like
Regions
One client even had us start learning Japanese so we could open conversations with candidates in their own language. And plenty of niche industries most people have never heard of.
04 · Industries
Industries we've recruited for.
05 · Our team
A senior bench, not a junior pool.
TAP is founder-led: Jonathan leads every search. Behind him is a bench of senior recruiters, each with at least 15 years of experience and a network of their own, ready to join a search when it needs more reach. Nobody on our team learns on your search.
TAP also offers optional career advisory for senior professionals, separate from its employer recruiting services. Candidates never pay to be considered for a role. Read the independence policy
06 · Let's talk
Conversations we're always up for.
Not ready to start a search? We're glad to talk through any of these, drawing on years of experience across many companies and industries.
AI and the future of work
Building teams
Leadership and retention
Business and pay