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About
Helping Founders Scale Faster by Hiring Smarter
Established in 2016, The Talent Center is a Vancouver-based boutique recruitment and consulting firm specializing in C-Suite leadership, high-performing sales talent, and helping early-stage startups scale through effective hiring.
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We act as an extension of your talent acquisition team—your seasoned, executive-level hiring partners without the overhead. With over 30 years of combined experience in candidate discovery and client needs analysis, we bring strategic insight and ask the right questions to uncover hiring bottlenecks and deliver tailored solutions.
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Our approach is both strategic and hands-on. We don’t just fill roles—we build your hiring capacity. We equip founders and hiring teams with the tools, systems, and training they need to make recruiting a sustainable competitive advantage.
Our People
Sherry Zhu Anderson
Partner
Growing up in a small town, I always loved people. In 2011, after months of contemplating and soul-searching, I transitioned my career from Financial Services to Recruiting. It wasn’t an easy decision. I was afraid of the unknown and the challenges ahead. Luckily, I had incredible mentors who guided me through my journey and followed my heart. I am forever grateful for their help; and I do my best to pay it forward to others, especially to the candidates I work with.
More than a decade later, I’m more passionate about recruiting than ever before. Hearing from candidates who love their jobs always gives me the greatest joy and reinforces my passion for what I do. In contrast, I often lose sleep and wonder what I could have done better after an exit interview.
Through trial and error, I’ve learned the importance of assessing a candidate’s fit for a role beyond their resume. Uncovering their stories, passions, motivations, and values before evaluating their competencies and key achievements is a crucial practice of mine.
Having interviewed thousands of professionals and leading high-performance recruitment teams in the High-Tech Industry has helped me gain deep insights into recruiting top talent. My passion and expertise have helped me establish a large network of top-quality candidates, particularly in leadership and sales positions in the global market.
With a genuine desire to help people find their dream jobs, I founded The Talent Center. I believe that every individual deserves a fulfilling career; I’m committed to delivering the best results to both our candidates and clients.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending quality time with my husband and son. I believe in giving back and have held various non-profit volunteering positions over the years. Oh, I have really wide feet and proudly tell my husband that my "duck feet" actually help me swim fast.
Aaron Agustin
Partner
I was born a tinkerer, dismantling toys, alarm clocks, etc., and then putting them back together. I wanted to understand how they worked, and how they could then work better.
Decades later, I was fortunate. I found great outlets for my love of tinkering and optimizing things by working in Canadian technology and software. I loved selling genuine "easier, faster, and better" software automation tools. I have been a top-performing individual contributor and then led sales teams for 3 tech companies to their successful acquisitions, having been awarded best-in-class YoY growth, capital efficiency, and customer retention.
Our internal conversations sounded very much like yours today:
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How do we hire at scale in economic uncertainty and demands for remote working options? How do we then find great people that will be completely accountable (even in a remote setting)?
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Can this leader execute/enhance our proven selling model?
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How do we hire another AE like ___? They're carrying 30% of the team's target!
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The candidate is a fantastic match in experience/requirements but what tools can we use to understand their intangibles aka the ability to synergize with the team?
These important discussions and more are why I partnered with Sherry to create a trusted center for top-shelf talent. Today I have the wonderful privilege to focus on client-employer conversations to find easier, faster, and better ways to onboard great hires and cut turnover costs in half.
Outside of work, I am with my significant other food touring locally and around the world. In the colder months, we're snuggling at home with our dog and two cats.