About Traverse

Relationships,put back into staffing.

The world of work changed and so did we. Traverse is a Toronto recruiting firm with roots back to 1997, run without the brick-and-mortar overhead, on current tools, by people who answer the phone and learn your name.

Why clients stay

Digital. Current. Human.

We're a digital company

No office tower to pay for. The saving shows up in your fee and in how fast we move.

We use current technology

No legacy platforms. Sourcing, screening and scheduling run on the tools that exist now, which is how two or three profiles reach you quickly.

We're human

When you call, we answer. When you work with us, the relationship runs on transparency and honesty, both ways.

Colleagues working together in a bright office

29+years of staffing experience behind the firm

6capabilities, each with its own recruiting team

20+hires at one GTA food plant in 18 months

How we work

The three C's.

Comprehension

For the employer: we take the time to understand your project, technology and culture. For the candidate: we learn about you, your career goals, work history and transferable skills.

Cadence

Employers need positions filled quickly. We're not just fast, we're scalable: whatever the size of the project, we mobilize. For candidates, we move your profile to the front of the line.

Consistency

Employer or candidate, you get the same quality of service every time. The process is proven and repeatable, and we keep you informed at every step.

Leadership

Run by people who have built staffing businesses before.

Trevor and Brett co-founded Traverse to bring a human experience back to recruiting and to find top-performing talent for great companies. Around them: a sales team led by a VP with two decades in managed staffing, recruiting teams led by a Lead Recruiter, and a partner network for volume.

Brett Lawrie

Co-founder

Leads client delivery: the search strategy on every mandate, the manufacturing and operations practice, and the leadership searches.

A dynamic, executive-level, results-driven professional with over 25 years of experience in IT, engineering and professional staffing services. Proven acumen in sales, marketing and project management, with profit and loss responsibility and fiscal accountability for business units in excess of $100MM. Adept at designing and implementing strategic staffing solutions that meet client business objectives, with extensive experience implementing and managing SaaS platforms, MSPs, VMSs and RPOs.

Brett on LinkedIn

Trevor Breininger

Co-founder

Leads growth and the technology behind the search: the sourcing engine, the data and the sales, finance and AI practices.

Fifteen years in staffing and sales. Trevor built and scaled business development for Ian Martin, now Raise, placing engineering, trades and professional talent for mid-market firms, then founded SalesGeneration.ai, where he builds AI-driven go-to-market systems for B2B companies. He brings both to Traverse: the sourcing, screening and outreach systems that reach the people who are not applying, and the discipline of a sales organization behind every search.

Trevor on LinkedIn

Badsha Banerjee

VP of Sales

Leads the sales team and client partnerships. His account managers own the relationship from the first call through every renewal.

Over two decades leading IT and engineering managed service and staffing solutions. Expertise across sales, strategic partnerships, change and project management, with a track record of running business units with fiscal responsibility beyond $20 million. Badsha designs and executes staffing solutions tailored to each client's business objectives, and has implemented and overseen SaaS, MSP, VMS and RPO programs end to end. Specialties: managed consulting and resource solutions, recruitment and selection, change management and integration, program and portfolio management, engineering and IT.

Sharday Gonsalves

Lead Recruiter

Leads the recruiting teams. Her recruiters run the searches by specialty, from sourcing to the offer, and every candidate meets one of them before a client does.

HR and talent acquisition professional with more than ten years across full-cycle recruitment, HR operations, the employee lifecycle, compliance and HR administration. Sharday has recruited across financial services, healthcare, legal, hospitality, manufacturing, engineering, technology and professional services, including hard-to-fill and specialized roles, and brings a corporate HR background: pre-employment screening, onboarding, HRIS and process improvement, including a PeopleSoft to SuccessFactors transition. She values strong relationships, clear communication, attention to detail and a positive candidate experience, and the right fit for the hiring team.

The recruiting teams

A team per specialty, a lead on every search.

Each of the six specialties has its own recruiters, its own bench and its own screen. Badsha's account managers own the client relationship; Sharday's recruiters own the search from sourcing to the offer. Behind both sits the sourcing and research desk and a partner recruiter network for volume hiring.

Sales and client partnerships
Recruiting teams by specialty
Sourcing and research
Partner recruiter network

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By specialty

Operations recruiting team
Contract staffing recruiting team
AI and data recruiting team
Manufacturing recruiting team
Sales recruiting team
Finance recruiting team

The chain

Find. Win. Build. Position. Scale.

Find

The people who are not applying anywhere: reached, screened, interested.

Win

An offer they accept, at terms you can live with, before a counter lands.

Build

A hiring program with a bench, not a scramble every time someone leaves.

Position

An employer story that makes the next hire easier than the last.

Scale

Volume hiring and leadership searches on the same playbook as you grow.

Book a call

A role open that is costing you every week?

Pick a time. A Traverse recruiter who works your market will call to talk through the role, what the market looks like for it right now and what good looks like for your team.

Two or three vetted profiles per role, and a guarantee on every candidate hired through Traverse.

Brett LawrieCo-founder, Traverse Staffing · LinkedIn

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Prefer to talk?416-274-3978 recruitment@traversestaffing.com