Aureus Group’s Romero leads division to revenue gains with recruiting
efforts
Aureus Group (Gabe Romero – one of the Midlands
Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Winners)
Midlands Business Journal, May 20, 2011
In 2010 as branch manager for Aureus Group, Gabe Romero led
the company’s IT-IS staffing division to a 60 percent growth in
revenues. “The entire year of 2010 was a huge breakthrough for
our division,” he said. “Our team did a great job of tuning out
the bad news that was pervasive at the end of 2008, all of 2009,
and into 2010.” “If you listened to the media, you could really
get into a state of paralysis, but our team just concentrated on
the things they could control,” he said. One of the most
rewarding opportunities his job provides is working with people,
according to Romero. “The relationships I have built within our
company and those relationships I have built with our clients
and candidates is my favorite part of what I do. I am a people
person,” he said. “I truly enjoy building meaningful
relationships and my position has been a great way for me to
create those.” Romero said the next decade will provide
opportunity for his team to be a major player in not only the
regional market but nationally as well. “Everyone is well aware
that there will be a talent vacuum that will occur as the baby
boomers leave the workforce and take their knowledge and
experience with them,” he said. “Finding passive talent, that
is, experienced professionals that will consider a career move
but are not actively looking for that move, will be absolutely
critical.”