Company Profile

Smith Professional Search is an executive search and recruiting firm based in the Detroit area and has established a reputation for providing the highest standards of service and professionalism. We represent outstanding, progressive companies with excellent job opportunities and we search for the very best candidates to fill them.

The primary focus at Smith Professional Search is recruiting human resources and accounting professionals with experience levels varying from professional staff to high level senior executives. Our Michigan based client companies range in size from Fortune 500 to “small but growing.” They represent a variety of industries including automotive suppliers, banking, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, professional corporations, consulting firms and more. We have successfully filled positions for client companies at many organizational levels.

Personal Profile

Susan Smith, SPHR began her career with operational and financial management positions at AT&T and at Citicorp’s Advance Mortgage Corporation. Her professional recruiting career started in 1984 when she joined a large national search firm. In 1992 she launched Smith Professional Search. She earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Wayne State University with a major in Personnel and Industrial Relations.

Susan has been a member of the Human Resources Association of Greater Detroit since 1985 and served as President of the Association in 2003–4. She received her SPHR certification in 1998. The Michigan State Council of SHRM appointed her to the role of Eastern District Director for 2005–9 and appointed her to SHRM Foundation Director in 2010. In 2004 she was invited to join one of SHRM’s National Expertise Panels, Staffing Management, for a three-year term. Her involvement on this 12 person Panel included participation on a team to predict and report HR trends, as well as providing subject matter expertise for pending and current legislation, and writing on various HR topics. In May, 2005, SHRM published a White Paper she co-authored on Outsourced Staffing. The paper is available on the SHRM web site. In 2009 she was selected to participate on a SHRM Task Force which is developing and implementing a standard for Workforce Planning with the American National Standards Institute.

Smith Professional Search sets its standards high with the belief that
long-standing client relationships are the keys to our success.