Beyond the Job Description: Sourcing Talent with ‘ Growth, Energy, and Power’
We’ve all read job descriptions that sound like checklists.
But the best leaders are not boxes to check, they are people full of energy, curiosity, and accountability.
At Vibrant Talent Group, we go deeper. We look for the sparks, the people who lean in, who ask better questions, and who bring contagious drive to create something bigger than themselves.
That’s what we mean by growth, energy, and power. You can train skills, but you cannot train hunger.
When you hire for mindset, not just experience, you build teams that last and outperform expectations.
In recruiting creative and marketing executives, we look beyond resumes to find the mindset, leadership style, and instincts that define enduring success.
Our screening process is designed to uncover these deeper qualities. In every search, we evaluate candidates through a mix of structured questions, pattern recognition, and conversation flow that helps us identify:
Growth mindset: How a candidate talks about learning, failure, and evolving. We ask about moments of change, new skills gained, and how they’ve navigated ambiguity or reinvention.
Energy and drive: Whether they take initiative or wait for direction. We listen for ownership language, do they say “I did,” “I built,” “I led,” or “we tried”?
Leadership presence: How they influence others, communicate under pressure, and inspire confidence, not just in their team, but across the organization.
Strategic curiosity: Whether they connect the dots across business, brand, and audience, asking “why” before “how.”
Cultural alignment: How they motivate and collaborate, their pace of work, and how they thrive within certain environments, whether a high-growth startup or a legacy brand in transformation.
Storytelling ability: How they articulate impact, not just activity. The best leaders bring clarity and conviction to their narrative and that often mirrors how they’ll represent your brand externally.
Each conversation is an opportunity to look past credentials and see character, to understand what drives a candidate, not just what they’ve done.
Because at Vibrant Talent Group, we’re not just matching resumes to roles. We’re building leadership teams with the growth, energy, and power to move businesses forward.
We do not just fill roles. We find people who change what is possible!