Providing both Retained Search and Contingency Recruitment as well as Contract / Temporary / Per Diem staffing. The Forum Group, a Veteran-owned firm based in New York, has been an industry leader in professional staffing, vendor management and financial consulting since 1974.
For more than four decades, Forum has connected clients with the most talented professionals available in the marketplace while maintaining an uncompromising ethical and service standard.Our eight divisions of specialization include over one hundred seasoned recruiters and research staff with extensive industry experience and market expertise.
For more than four decades, Forum has connected clients with the most talented professionals available in the marketplace while maintaining an uncompromising ethical and service standard.Our eight divisions of specialization include over one hundred seasoned recruiters and research staff with extensive industry experience and market expertise.
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The Forum story is one that has repeated itself many times in our great country. It is a story of young professionals creating an enterprise built on hard work and the unyielding principle that treating both candidates and clients with respect and honesty will yield success. Our growth over four plus decades is a direct result of our commitment to engage and train the very best individuals.
Since 1974, The Forum Group, a Veteran-owned firm, has established long-term partnerships with clients by providing the finest in Human Capital, Process Management and Financial Consulting Services. The Forum Group currently operates eight recruitment divisions specializing in permanent staffing on both a contingency and retained search basis, as well as providing contract/temporary placement across a variety of disciplines.
Forum Search Partners was created with the understanding that recruiting senior-level professionals requires a different approach than the traditional contingency search model. Accordingly, our accomplished team conducts retained searches to identify and recruit the most qualified executive professionals to meet specific client requirements.
Our primary focus over the last four decades has been to develop long-lasting partnerships with our clients. Forum has grown into a leading client service organization, placing both contract and permanent employees across the nation. Each of our eight specialized divisions are composed of industry experts with unmatched experience who are ready to support your staffing initiatives.
As the utilization of contingent or temporary employees increases in the marketplace, it is critical to properly manage and control the cost and efficiency of the hiring process. At no cost to you, Forum's web-based Vendor Management System (VMS) provides a state-of- the-art tool to help manage clients' temporary staffing needs.
Reviews (16)
Doris C.
Aug 25, 2021
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Rose V.
Mar 22, 2021
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This recruiting agency tried poaching our employees on their work emails, yes emails as in they were emailing multiple staff members all with the same template email. As a manager I asked them to not blast email our staff, in a very rude tone one of their employees responded to an email not realizing she was responding directly to me saying "tell her that's what recruiting is". I found it to be very disrespectful and a shady way of conducting a business. Needless to say I will never come here for my recruiting needs and would warn others to do the same, they will eventually come
Malado F.
Dec 09, 2020
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Jobless Should 'Be Really Careful' With Staffing Agencies like "The Forum Group"
I, unfortunately, had a really horrible experience this summer with a recruiter and her supervisor by the name of Michelle Palkin and Indira Reyes. I launched a formal complaint and requested an investigation into misconduct and possibly unlawful race discrimination/ discriminatory treatment that I was subjected to by Michelle Palkin and Indira Reyes this past summer. I was sent several emails and called about a job interview that provided the wrong address and the wrong time by Michelle Palkin
I, unfortunately, had a really horrible experience this summer with a recruiter and her supervisor by the name of Michelle Palkin and Indira Reyes. I launched a formal complaint and requested an investigation into misconduct and possibly unlawful race discrimination/ discriminatory treatment that I was subjected to by Michelle Palkin and Indira Reyes this past summer. I was sent several emails and called about a job interview that provided the wrong address and the wrong time by Michelle Palkin
Kitty B.
Nov 19, 2019
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LOLOL! So, I let the "president" Frank Fusaro know about Shawn Ball and Diane Amato a while ago and he was all BS apologetic, etc. Just now I found a position that I am more than suited for and I reached out to him - HE BLOCKED ME!!! Did you ever? This is truly the worst, most unprofessional place in the industry!!! WHY ARE THEY STILL OPEN?????? And for those posting these wonderful reviews - how much are they paying you to post the positive reviews? Heck, I can lie and post wonderful reviews, too, if I get paid for it! Close your doors, Forum, you're the worst in the industry
Melissa K.
Oct 10, 2019
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K. J.
Apr 02, 2019
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The original person I spoke to was fine so I'll give them that but after overextending myself to come in for an interview the upper-level staff member I spoke to was very dismissive after only hearing what she wanted to hear from a conversation. She asked a question that was not black and white and upon my reply, she shut all communication down. Might as well have slammed a door on me. She took my reply completely out of context and very dismissive. I feel they must clearly not value the time and effort you put in to even consider using them to behave in such a way. I will happily use
Shiran B.
Feb 05, 2019
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BY FAR best experience I've ever had! Looking for the perfect job in NYC is probably the hardest thing, in every position, there are hundreds of awesome candidates and the competition is very aggressive. I was so lucky to have found Ray and Nella from the Forum Group. They are super professional, they had empowered me, guide and prepared me for the interview in a way that no career coach could ever do. my hiring process was so fast and they kept in the loop three times a day. Regardless of the amazing relationship, they have with my future employer who gave them so much trust in finding for
Matthew B.
Oct 05, 2018
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I applied for a forklift operator position posted on Indeed.com and within 15 minutes Shawn Ball emailed me about the position. The location, hours and pay was what I was looking for. They even fine tuned my resume then sent it to the employer and within a day I was offered the job. I live in Lakeland FL and they are based out of New York but I have to say they are one of the best staffing agencies I've ever dealt with. Even getting all the paperwork processed was very easy and straight forward. I highly recommend The Forum Group for anyone who is looking for a temp to hire position.
Maryanne T.
Sep 20, 2018
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Robert M.
Sep 04, 2018
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My God, doesn't Yelp even check on the credibility of the "reviewers" here. For example. . . take the most recent FIVE "reviews" of the fetid garbage dump known as The Forum Group. All five-stars, all written in the same gee-whiz elementary school style, and talking up some corporate pimp by the name of Sean Ball.
Sean Bull is more like it. For you see, the Forum Group is not a place seeking to place honest, hard working applicants. No, sir. They are just there to collect your data and then sell it to marketeers, ad agencies, branding scumbags, and probably CIA. And they
Sean Bull is more like it. For you see, the Forum Group is not a place seeking to place honest, hard working applicants. No, sir. They are just there to collect your data and then sell it to marketeers, ad agencies, branding scumbags, and probably CIA. And they
Veronica V.
Jun 06, 2018
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The Forum Group's payroll staff is completely inept and inappropriate. After depositing almost $1000 into my account 4 months after becoming full-time with a firm they connected me with, they then withdrew that same amount from my account two weeks later. I assumed in error that they had deposited an old check that was never processed. However, they never deemed it important to notify me that they had either deposited or needed to withdraw this amount from my account. When I called to ask about what had happened, I received a very disconcerting and rude phone call from the manager of the payroll
Katharine L.
May 29, 2018
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I saw an advertisement from Indeed for a paralegal position. I applied online and received an email from Shawn Bell. He said he had many jobs for me and that I needed to come in for an interview. I came the first week of April 2018, I met with him for a few minutes and the rest of his teach. No, jobs and I was told he would call me in a couple of days. Never happened!! Saw this: Docket Clerk / Docket Manager - Docket & Court Services Managing Supervisor. Applied on May 7th, 2018, I asked about the job and salary. Shawn replies email resume, I tell him, I sent it and I met with him in
Ms. Fleury
May 03, 2018
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I applied for a temp to perm admin assistant position on indeed.com a few weeks ago. Then I got a quick email response from a recruiting manager name Shawn Ball. He said that my resume was exactly what he was looking for and that he has several roles that he feels that I could be a good fit for. And he wanted to meet with me. I responded to his email asking if the temp to perm admin assistant position was still open, he did not respond. So I called him and I told him that I got his email and I was about to ask him the same question but he quickly brushed me off saying he has to take a call and
Sophia A.
Apr 12, 2017
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Absolutely the worst staffing agency the recruiter I was assigned to was very unprofessional please do not work with Anne Corcoran she does not know how to do her job!! she assigned me to a work site and could not give me the answers I needed which she was suppose to know prior to assigning me to the job or could have checked my file. she procrastinated on giving me answers and did not want to communicate with me. She Is very rude and never was on top of her job. I will never ever work with the forum group again.
Stephanie G.
Jan 09, 2017
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This is not a good place to look for work my friends. I meet a few people from the recruiting team who said they were going to help me find a job, since I been out work for a while. Next thing I know I get a call from them for a one day job. I mean come on, working for one day is not going to help me be stable. Also I never got paid for that they. so that was also a waste of time. I shouldn't have never accept it.never got paid and I was just getting an email from someone name Janice Sivillo who kept saying that the payroll was delay. Never in my lice will work with this company again. They
Louise D.
Feb 02, 2016
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