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A Modern Recruiting Agency

Recruiting Delivered,
Talent Built to Scale.

Sales, operations, and leadership talent for logistics and supply chain companies that can't afford to hire wrong.

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Marcus Reynolds
VP Operations · National 3PL
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Sarah Kim
Sr. Director · Freight forwarder
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James Dalton
VP Supply Chain · Freight brokerage
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Laura Patel
Director Ops · Midwest 3PL
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Industries We Serve
3PL & Warehousing Freight Brokerage Supply Chain Operations Last-Mile Delivery Cold Chain & Temp-Controlled Intermodal Transport Warehouse Automation
The reality

A bad hire doesn't just cost money.
It costs momentum.

A wrong hire eats months of your time, stalls projects, and forces a restart. In logistics, every week without the right person costs you customers.

$50K–$150K

What one bad hire costs

Salary, ramp time, lost revenue, and the search you have to run again. For mid-senior logistics roles, it climbs fast.

4+ mo

Productivity lost

The ramp-up that never happened, the projects that stalled, the team that carried the weight.

Our own estimates, built from salary, ramp time, lost output, and the cost of running the search again. The vacancy calculator shows the math.

Free Resource

2026 Logistics & Supply Chain
Compensation Benchmark.

Current salary ranges for 20+ logistics sales and operations roles. Regional variance. Year-over-year trends. The red flags that say your offer is off-market. One email, no spam.

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VP of Operations$250K
Director of Sales$160K
Ops Manager$105K
Warehouse Manager$95K
Median base · see report for full data
Our Services

Every hire should be intentional.

We don't send stacks of resumes and hope. We run a small number of searches at a time, built around your role, your culture, and the people you actually need.

Strategic Talent Search

A custom search built around your role and your business. We source, vet, and deliver candidates who fit the seat now and grow with the company over time.

  • Structured candidate scoring on fit, behavior & tenure
  • Success profile development before sourcing
  • Structured interviews & behavioral assessments
  • 30/60/90-day post-hire check-ins
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Executive Search

C-suite, VP, and Director-level placements for companies where the wrong leader sets the team back a year. Confidential, precise, and managed end to end from kickoff to offer.

  • C-suite, VP & Director-level placements
  • Competitive market intelligence reports
  • Discreet, confidential search process
  • 180-day replacement guarantee included
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Real-Time Client Experience

Engaged and Retained clients don't chase us for status updates. The portal shows your live pipeline, interview debriefs, and search progress the moment we update them.

  • Live candidate pipeline & status updates
  • Structured interview debrief system
  • Search health & milestone tracking
  • Included with Engaged & Retained Searches
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Inside a HartFelt Search

Four phases. One outcome.

Every engagement runs through the same four phases in the same order. The depth scales to the role. The structure does not bend.

01

Design

Every search starts with a kickoff call. Together, we write down what success looks like, who's hireable in the market, and what the role pays today.

02

Identify

The right person for this role probably isn't looking. We start with our own logistics talent network, then map the wider market and reach that off-market talent quietly, one conversation at a time.

03

Evaluate

Every candidate gets the same structured interview, scored against the success profile we built in Design. Nobody reaches you unless that score clears the bar we set in Design, and you get the scorecard in writing.

04

Secure

We run references on the same scorecard. We help shape the offer and see it to signature. On day one, your hiring manager gets a one-page handoff. We check in at thirty, sixty, and ninety days.

Blake Hart, Founder & Principal Recruiter
Blake Hart
Founder & Principal Recruiter

I started HartFelt Careers because I'd watched too many agencies send candidates they knew weren't qualified, just to keep a search alive and a fee in motion. We do recruiting the opposite way. Every candidate we submit is qualified with measurable success data. We specialize in sales, operations, and leadership roles across logistics and supply chain. Nothing else.

Who We Are

A modern recruiting agency.
Built on proof.

We pair deep logistics and supply chain expertise with a documented process that produces hires you can defend in writing. This is not high-volume recruiting. We run a small number of searches at a time so each one gets the attention a real hire deserves.

Why HartFelt

Recruiting that keeps you in the loop, not in the dark.

From kickoff through offer acceptance you watch the search happen in real time, see every milestone the moment it lands, and never have to ask where things stand.

Real-Time Search Visibility

The portal updates the moment we do. You see the candidate, the score, the interview note. No status emails. No "checking in next Tuesday."

Specialist-Led Sourcing

Logistics is the only vertical we work in. We know who the operators are, who's looking, and who's quietly available.

Structured Decision Making

Interview debriefs and candidate scorecards on every candidate. When you sit down to choose, you're choosing on evidence you can defend to your CEO, not on whoever interviewed best last Tuesday.

Active Search, Dir. of Operations
Live Pipeline
Screening
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J. Torres
Ops Manager · Regional carrier
R. Chen
Logistics Lead · Parcel network
A. Williams
Sr. Ops · Fleet operator
Interview
2
M. Reynolds
VP Supply Chain
S. Kim
Sr. Director · Freight forwarder
Offer
1
L. Patel
Dir. Ops · Midwest 3PL
Included with Engaged & Retained engagements. Your search, always visible.
Our sweet spot

We do our best work with companies
who think like this.

If any of these sound like you, we'll probably get along. If none do, we may not be the right fit, and that's a useful thing to know early.

Growing and hiring to keep up

You're scaling operations and need people who can hit the ground running, not warm bodies to fill seats.

Tired of recycled resumes

You've worked with agencies before and walked away with a stack of candidates who didn't move the needle.

Speed matters to your business

Every week the seat is empty costs you money. You want someone who moves fast and still presents people you'd actually want to hire.

You value transparency over volume

You'd rather see 5 deeply vetted candidates than 50 resumes. And you want to know exactly where the search stands at all times.

Have a role you need filled?

Tell us what the job is and who you need in it. We will tell you who is out there and what they cost.

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