Advantage Search

The RPA Inc. Advantage Search is an effective alternative to our full Executive Recruitment Search.

We provide the same high-quality services:

  • In depth research into your institutional needs
  • Highly skilled recruitment team
  • Help in developing job descriptions and compelling announcements
  • Direct mail, email, and phone contact with hundreds of professionals
  • Evaluation of all candidates
  • Pre-qualifying interviews with the top tier
  • Expert consultation as you select your finalists

Then, you carry the search to completion.


To find out more about the Advantage Search and how you can reduce your recruitment costs, contact Gary Rhoads at 800-992-9277

Executive Recruitment Search

For over 18 years the finest institutions in the nation have
retained RPA Inc. to achieve their executive recruitment goals.

  • Presidents
  • Provosts and Deans
  • Executive Directors
  • Vice Presidents
  • Department Directors
  • Officers and Senior Staff Members

We specialize in tailoring your search to meet the unique characteristics and financial needs of your organization. Our network of professional contacts includes over 60,000 individuals
worldwide and is growing daily. We maintain an aggressive schedule, moving your search to the on-site interview phase in 12 to 16 weeks.

Our field-tested search methods generate robust, diverse, and exciting candidate pools.
Every search is headed by a select senior consultant and a lead associate,
who report to you regularly so you always know how your search is progressing.

Presidential Search

In choosing a new president, you are making history. RPA Inc. is uniquely qualified to help identify, cultivate, and hire your next exceptional leader.

  • We involve your entire constituency in the search process.
  • We research your organization, talk to the key individuals who will interact with your new leader, and consult with you to identify the characteristics of your ideal candidate.
  • We hold on-campus "listening sessions" to elicit the input of students, staff, faculty, parents and alumni, trustees, donors, and others who care about your institution. Then we activate a search and recruitment process unequalled in the executive search field.
  • We provide an exceptionally qualified team of senior consultants.
  • Our team brings unparalleled insight into the presidential search process. With a consultant team that includes current and former presidents, vice presidents, and senior administrators from throughout the higher education community, we serve clients ranging from small, private liberal arts institutions to major public and private universities, from regional colleges to the Ivy League.
  • We focus on the key factors in the search process.
  • We assist your search committee at every step of the process, assuring that they have both the information and the procedures they need to make fully informed recommendations.
  • Our extensive database of professionals provides access to the premier leaders in the higher education, nonprofit and for-profit communities.
  • Our corps of trained recruitment specialists make hundreds of direct, personal contacts to identify candidates and build relationships for your institution.
  • Our multi-tiered series of interview techniques includes one-to-one contact very early in the process.
  • We maintain strict confidentiality, assuring that even individuals who are not actively seeking new employment feel comfortable exploring your opportunity.
  • Our aggressive search schedule assures that you move from initiating search efforts to on-site interviews in a judicious but efficient process that usually takes 16 weeks or less. Because we move expeditiously, you seldom lose good candidates to competing opportunities, and your search committee remains interested and enthusiastic.

Selecting a new leader may be the most important task you undertake for your institution. RPA Inc. can give you the choices you need for the outcome you want.


For further information we invite you to call Gary Rhoads at 800-992-9277
or email us at email@rpainc.org for a confidential discussion.