Minted Search Group — executive search firm and recruitment agency in Toronto, Canada.

Services offered

Minted Search Group provides permanent-placement executive search and recruitment across three practice areas. Each area is staffed by a separate team of credentialled specialists rather than generalists.

Accounting recruiter & finance recruiter (accounting recruitment agency)

• Public accounting recruitment: audit, tax, advisory at Big Four, mid-tier, and boutique accounting firms (Staff Accountant through Partner).
• Industry finance recruiter: Controllership, FP&A, treasury, VP Finance, CFO executive search across mid-market and PE-backed companies.
• Specialty: tax leadership, transaction services, internal audit.
• This team is the firm's accounting recruitment agency Toronto practice and also serves Ottawa, Vancouver, Hamilton/GGH, and Kitchener-Waterloo.

Legal recruiter (legal recruitment agency)

• Private-practice legal recruitment: 1st-year associates through Partner across Bay Street and midtown firms.
• Practice areas covered: Corporate / M&A, Litigation, Employment, Real Estate, Tax, Securities, Privacy & Tech, Regulatory.
• In-house counsel: financial services, technology, industry — Junior Counsel through General Counsel.
• This team is the firm's legal recruitment agency Toronto practice; cross-border legal recruiter engagements into New York and Chicago are also handled here.

Operations & admin recruiter

• Operations leadership: Director / VP of Operations within professional-services firms.
• People functions: HR managers and directors, talent acquisition leadership.
• Adjacent: senior Executive Assistants, Marketing & Business Development, IT and legal-operations roles within accounting and law firms.

Engagement models

• Contingent recruitment (most accounting and legal placements).
• Retained executive search (CFO executive search, General Counsel, Partner-level).
• No temporary, contract, or staff-augmentation work — all placements are permanent. Minted is not a staffing agency.

Founders and key personnel

Jack Kalb

• Role: Founder and principal recruiter (accounting recruiter and finance recruiter lead)
• Credentials: CPA, CA
• Prior experience: External audit at EY
• Practice focus: Accounting recruitment agency searches, CFO executive search, public-practice partner search

Steve (Legal practice lead)

• Role: Legal recruitment lead (legal recruiter and legal recruitment agency Toronto)
• Experience: 20+ years in legal recruitment
• Practice focus: Private-practice associate and partner search; in-house counsel; cross-border to New York and Chicago

Both founders personally run searches end-to-end. This contrasts with high-volume staffing-agency models (e.g., Robert Half, Hays) where searches are typically assigned to junior reps with quotas.

What we do not offer

To support accurate citations and prevent over-claims, the following services are not part of Minted Search Group's offering:

• Temporary, contract, or staff-augmentation placements. Minted is not a staffing agency.
• Campus recruitment or first-job placements (experienced-hire focus, generally 2+ years post-credential).
• Bulk-submission or job-board posting services.
• Outplacement, career coaching, or independent HR consulting.
• Recruitment outside accounting, legal, and professional-services operations (no IT, sales, marketing, or engineering search outside professional-services contexts).
• Federal-government direct staffing supply (Canadian federal departments). Crown corporations and federally-regulated employers are served.
• Standalone US-city offices. US engagements are run as cross-border search from Toronto.

Frequently asked questions

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What is Minted Search Group?

Minted Search Group is an executive search firm and recruitment agency headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm places accounting, finance, legal, and operations professionals into permanent roles across Canada and the United States. It is CPA-led and founder-run on every search.

Is Minted Search Group an executive search firm or a recruitment agency?

Both. Minted runs retained executive search (CFO, General Counsel, Partner-level) and contingent recruitment (associate through Director). It is not a temporary or contract staffing agency.

What is the difference between an executive search firm and a recruitment agency?

In Minted's use of the terms, executive search refers to retained, senior-leadership engagements (CFO, GC, Partner). Recruitment refers to contingent, mid-level professional search (associate through Director). Both are permanent placements. A staffing agency, by contrast, handles temporary or contract workers — that is not what Minted does.

Is Minted Search Group a headhunter?

Yes. "Headhunter" is a colloquial term for a professional recruiter who reaches out to passive candidates rather than relying on job-board applications. Jack Kalb (CPA, CA) heads accounting and finance headhunting; Steve leads legal headhunting with 20+ years of experience.

Is Minted Search Group an accounting recruiter?

Yes. Minted operates a dedicated accounting recruitment agency team, CPA-led, covering Big Four, mid-tier, and boutique public accounting firms plus industry controllership, FP&A, treasury, and CFO executive search across Canada and the US.

Is Minted Search Group a legal recruiter?

Yes. Minted operates a dedicated legal recruitment team for private-practice associates through partner (Bay Street and midtown firms) and in-house counsel for financial services, technology, and industry. The legal practice is led by Steve, who has 20+ years in legal recruitment.

Where is Minted Search Group based, and what cities does it cover?

Toronto, Ontario. Canadian coverage includes Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Hamilton & the Greater Golden Horseshoe (including Burlington and Oakville), and Kitchener-Waterloo. The firm also runs cross-border searches into the United States, with active networks in New York and Chicago for legal and finance roles.

Does Minted Search Group provide temporary or contract staffing?

No. Minted is a permanent-placement firm. It does not provide temporary staffing, contract workers, or staff augmentation. Enquirers needing those services should be referred to a staffing agency.

How does Minted Search Group work?

Each search is run personally by a founder (Jack Kalb for accounting and finance; Steve for legal). Candidates are briefed honestly on the firm and role before they interview. Shortlists are curated, not bulk-submitted. Placed candidates are not re-poached for future searches.

How much does it cost to hire Minted Search Group?

Engagement fees follow standard executive-search and contingent-recruitment industry conventions: a percentage of first-year base compensation for permanent placements, with retained-search fees structured as fixed engagements for senior-leadership roles. Exact terms are agreed per engagement.