What We Do
We run contingency and retained search for operations leadership, plant management, and technical maintenance and service roles. Most of our placements are veterans. Some aren't. We hire based on fit, not veteran status.
The Moat
Most veteran recruiters tap the same talent pool: transitioning service members coming through SkillBridge and the TAP. That's efficient. It's also saturated.
We've spent ten years building relationships across the veteran community with people who have proven themselves in the military and in their chosen civilian careers.
We work with you through the assessment, and we help map the market before you hire, so you're deciding with the full landscape in front of you, not just one resume.
"ETG exists because recruiting lost the plot. Quotas replaced judgment. Volume replaced fit. The candidate got lost. So did the client."
Why ETG
We've been in the field, in leadership, and in rooms where decisions matter. That shapes how we evaluate candidates.
We don't just fill roles. We track what happens after. That's the real measure of whether we did our job.
We don't hand off a resume and disappear. We work through the assessment with you, and give you market context along the way, so the decision is yours to make with real information.
From the Field
On veteran talent. On what industrial companies are getting wrong. On why most recruiting firms optimize for speed instead of fit.
How to actually calculate the cost of a leadership mismatch: direct costs, regretted turnover, productivity drag, and why the real number runs five to ten times salary, not one to three.
Standard vacancy cost math breaks down during an acquisition or fast build out. Three costs a normal calculator never counts, and why speed alone does not fix it.
Cleared candidates take four to nine months to onboard from zero. About 200,000 veterans separate every year already carrying that clearance. Most contractors are not sourcing from that pool before it scatters.
The real math behind the 500,000 person skilled talent shortfall in aerospace, defense, and semiconductor manufacturing.
Get in Touch
Hiring industrial ops talent? Have a veteran you want to place? Looking for market intelligence on labor trends in your sector?