Mark James is the CEO and Founder of Hire Consulting Services™, established in 1999. He has been providing executive career coaching, outplacement, and executive recruiting services for over 25 years.

Mark has a reputation for delivering a proven structure and process, coupled with honest expert advice. He is passionate about coaching executives to manage their careers more effectively and guiding growing companies in hiring and managing top talent. He brings a positive approach to the career search — enabling his clients to develop their personal brand identity, leverage their strengths, dramatically improve their interview skills, negotiate salary, create professional job-search strategies, and clearly articulate their networking messages about their background, passions, and career objectives. Mark’s clients can then set themselves apart from other job seekers and present themselves as the solution to their target companies’ needs.

Since 2005, Mark has hosted and facilitated the monthly online CareerNET (formerly ExecuNet) Executive Leadership Network for executives in career transition in Southern California. The CareerNET Executive Leadership Network is an active LinkedIn group. He also runs a successful career advice blog, The Hire Report, and has been published in several news articles, books, and newsletters; he has conducted numerous seminars and career workshops; and he has been a guest speaker at several career and networking events.

Mark is the author of three best-selling career handbooks, The Recruiter Mindset, The Interview Mindset, and Keys to the C Suite, in which he shares his 25+ years of seasoned career management expertise in career transition and career management and advancement.