About Searchlight Recruiters, Inc.

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Searchlight Recruiters, Inc. is an executive search and talent advisory firm focused on improving hiring decisions that must hold up over time.

Most hiring failures do not occur at the offer stage. They occur months later, when expectations change, pressure increases, and new hires are required to exercise judgment, adapt, and take ownership in complex environments. That is where Searchlight focuses its work.

We help organizations hire leaders and contributors who succeed after the offer is signed.

Hiring is not a sourcing problem.
It is a decision problem.

 Strong resumes, polished interviews, and early optimism are poor predictors of long-term performance. What matters most is how people behave when conditions change, feedback challenges them, and accountability becomes real. 

Searchlight was built around a clear belief: quality of hire is driven by judgment, not credentials alone. 

Our approach is designed to surface real hiring risk early, before decisions are made and costs are sunk. 

Searchlight works as a strategic thought partner, not a transactional recruiting vendor.  

Each engagement begins with clarity around what success looks like after the hire—how the role performs under pressure, how decisions are made, and how accountability is carried. We partner closely with executives and talent leaders to define outcomes, assess risk, and evaluate candidates using evidence from past performance rather than interview polish.  

We slow down where judgment matters, so our clients can move forward with confidence.

The result is fewer interviews, stronger alignment, and hiring decisions that compound positively over time.

Searchlight works with leaders who are accountable for outcomes, not just hiring activity.

Our clients include executives, boards, founders, and talent leaders operating in healthcare, life sciences, technology, and other highly regulated or performance-driven environments. Many are navigating growth, complexity, or change. All care deeply about decision quality.

If a hiring challenge cannot be meaningfully improved through structure, evidence, and judgment, we will say so.

Searchlight brings decades of executive recruiting and talent leadership experience across healthcare, life sciences, and technology-driven organizations.

We have supported early-stage innovators, scaling companies, and established enterprises by placing leaders and individual contributors whose success depends on adaptability, accountability, and execution—not just expertise.

Experience informs our judgment, but it does not replace it. Every hiring decision is evaluated in context.

Searchlight Recruiters, Inc. was founded by Chris Cornwall, an executive recruiting and talent advisory leader with decades of experience supporting hiring decisions across healthcare, life sciences, and technology-driven organizations. His work focuses on improving decision quality in high-stakes hiring, helping leaders reduce risk by evaluating judgment, accountability, and long-term performance rather than relying on credentials or interview polish. 

A searchlight does not create truth.

It reveals what is already there.

Our work is designed to illuminate real behavior, real risk, and real capability—so hiring decisions are made with clarity rather than assumption.