Our services
Talent Acquisition & Executive Search
From the Executive Assistant to the Executive, we can build and implement a customized hiring process that recruits top talent and engages them in a competency based interview experience.
Hiring Manager Coaching
Have a hiring team that needs a boost in performance? Our expert Performance Coaches can work with your team and provide coaching and training that will lead to
Outplacement Coaching
We get it. Nobody loves separations but sometimes they are unavoidable. Help ease their transition by partnering with us to provide career and jobs search coaching.
Individual coaching
Feeling stuck? Our coaches can create the space for you to break through your barriers and drive at the professional life you've always imagined.
We develop customized hiring solutions that connect exceptional candidates with the organizations that need them most.
We don’t believe in a one size fits all approach to hiring. Your people are your most valuable organizational asset and our process design reflects that.
From building a deep understanding of your unique context to identifying unique competencies to developing unique interview guides, we create a hiring experience that honors your journey and meets you where you are.
What Others are saying
Are you ready to hire top talent that propels your mission to the next level?
From sourcing to pool building to process implementation. We can help you with a full suite or just the pieces you need.
Meet our Founder
DJ Cervantes
Founder and CEO
DJ founded Talent on Fire in 2022 with a dream and vision of changing the way candidates and hiring managers experience hiring processes. Built on a foundation of empathy and, he builds processes with organizations as they search for incredible talent that empowers them to continue pushing forward in their mission. With a keen eye towards equity in hiring, DJ has led or supported over 100 talent searches including 1 high-volume campaign that resulted in 250 performance coaches.
Prior to founding Talent on Fire, DJ was a high school science teacher, school leader, and non-profit consultant supporting new and innovative schools in creating the Social Emotional conditions necessary for all young people, and their adult classroom leaders, to thrive.
In addition to leading Talent on Fire, he is a Firefighter/EMT-B in Ohio staffing some of the busiest fire apparatus in the country. He enjoys being able to bring his interview skills, problem solving abilities, and quick decision making into this work to better understand what a medical patient is experiencing and be providing life saving measures to solve that problem.
He lives in Ohio with his wife and 3 children. He loves skiing in the winter, fishing in the summer, and avoiding pollen in the spring.
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