“Arno is an accomplished career strategist with many years of experience. He coaches, advises and mentors professionals and helps you build a personal brand.”
About Arno Markus
A recruiter's instincts. A brand-builder's craft. A standards-setter's discipline.
Arno spent years inside the international recruiting machinery before he started dismantling it. The Reverse Recruitment Method™ is what he built in its place: a managed, candidate-side search that gives senior leaders the access, the positioning and the campaign discipline that recruiters keep for themselves.
Arno Markus, BA, MSc
Founder & CEO, iCareerSolutionsFounding President & Chair, National Reverse Recruiter AssociationThe short version
The executive career strategist most often hired by the people who teach others how to job hunt.
Arno Markus is a former executive recruiter, the Founding President of the National Reverse Recruiter Association, and the creator of the Reverse Recruitment Method™. As Founder and CEO of iCareerSolutions he works with C-suite, VP, Director and high-potential leaders who are ready to step into bigger roles and let a recruiter run the search for them.
His background includes recruitment consulting in Helsinki, Amsterdam and Toronto, where he saw first-hand how global employers evaluate senior talent and how hiring decisions are actually made behind the scenes. Today he uses that experience to reverse-engineer what companies truly need in a leader, and then to position his clients as the obvious answer: on paper, on LinkedIn, and throughout the interview process.
Over the last several years he has built iCareerSolutions into a 32-time award-winning Reverse Recruiting firm. The firm runs a client's search the way an executive recruiter runs a mandate: sourcing the right roles, reaching the decision-makers who own the hire, and managing the pipeline until an offer is accepted. The résumé and LinkedIn profile are built into that work, not sold as the end product.
He formalised the Reverse Recruitment Method™ in 2021, and in 2026 founded the National Reverse Recruiter Association to give the profession he helped pioneer a published standard process, an earned credential and an enforceable code of ethics. He chairs its board and represents the association publicly.
“The market for senior talent is not efficient. It is opaque, slow, and biased toward whoever shows up with the cleanest narrative and the right introductions. My job is to make sure that's you.”
Career
From the recruiter's side of the table to the candidate's.
- Recruiting
Executive recruitment consulting in Helsinki, Amsterdam and Toronto
Years inside international search, evaluating senior talent for global employers and seeing which candidates got shortlisted and why.
- iCareerSolutions
Founder & CEO
Built the firm from an executive positioning practice into a managed Reverse Recruiting firm with a senior team. Headquartered at 260 Madison Avenue, New York; clients across North America and Europe.
- 2017 onward
32 career services industry awards
First major win: the National ROAR Award for Experienced Writer, Modern Design (NRWA, 2017). Since then, two TORI Awards from Career Directors International, awards-judge service, and a 2024 NRWA Board of Directors seat.
- 2021
Reverse Recruitment Method™
Formalised what clients had quietly been hiring him to do for years into the Reverse Recruitment Method™: a transparent, end-to-end search run in the client's name.
- 2026
Founding President, National Reverse Recruiter Association
A standards body for the profession: written standard process, code of ethics, earned credentials and a public directory. iCareerSolutions is a member firm.
Why this matters now
Job-search systems were never built for senior leaders.
Applicant tracking systems were designed for high-volume hiring. LinkedIn's algorithm rewards repetition over substance. Recruiters work for the buyer, not for you. Arno's work is to invert that: to put a senior leader in the position recruiters and hiring committees would otherwise occupy, with the positioning and the outreach discipline to back it up.
Personally involved, deliberately few
Arno works personally with a small portfolio of Director-to-C-suite clients each quarter. The rest of the iCareerSolutions senior team, also award-winning, executes alongside him.
Confidential by default
Most clients are still in role. Outreach is targeted and personal rather than broadcast, documents never go to job boards, and every approach is agreed before it is made.
Held to a written standard
Engagements follow the NRRA Standard Process and Code of Ethics that Arno helped write, published for anyone to read and hold him to.
Recognition
32 awards. Three credible bodies. One claim that holds up.
Career services industry honours from Career Directors International (CDI / TORI), the National Résumé Writers' Association (NRWA / ROAR) and the Professional Association of Résumé Writers and Career Coaches (PARW/CC), plus awards-judge and board service. External proof that the standards behind every engagement meet the highest benchmarks in the field.
In their words
Strategist and coach first.
“If you are looking for the ideal support and expertise in mapping the ideal strategy for executive job search, Arno Markus is the one.”
“Arno is simply the best executive coach and advisor one can find in the US, if not in the world. I would highly recommend Arno to anyone seeking an advisor to secure the C-suite position.”
Confidential · Senior · Selective
Engagements are limited. Fit is mutual.
Arno works personally with a small portfolio of senior leaders each quarter. A 20-minute call decides whether the method is right for your situation.