Critical Fit Recruiting

🔥 Sintering + Semiconductor Packaging = Your Next Big Career Move If you’ve been driving innovation in semiconductor materials and want to shape the future of advanced packaging, this is your moment. We’re searching for a Principal Applications Engineer – Sintering to lead technical engineering for next-generation sintering paste programs and advanced material products. There is a clear runway for growth over the next 2-3 years. Here’s what makes it compelling: 🔹 Be the technical lead, optimize material application processes for both developmental and commercialized products. 🔹 Work directly with top-tier customers. Troubleshoot, solve complex product challenges, and ensure real-world success. 🔹 Tackle the hard problems and pioneer novel approaches in process development, material characterization, and advanced packaging integration. 🔹 Impact the industry help customers adopt materials that unlock higher thermal performance, greater reliability, and real value in power electronics. 💡 Your background: ✔️ Master’s+ in Materials Science, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or related. ✔️ 10+ years in semiconductor materials. ✔️ Strong grasp of power packaging trends (TIMs, high thermal adhesives, sintering). ✔️ Experience with DOE, statistical analysis, and hands-on customer support. This role is for someone who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge materials science and real-world electronics applications someone who wants to own problems, lead solutions, and directly influence the future of semiconductor packaging. 📍 Location: Orange County, CA 👉 Ready to lead where semiconductors and materials meet? Let’s connect.

Ground-Floor Opportunity in Marketing & Brand Leadership It’s not often you come across a role that checks all the boxes: Location: Boston, MA Market Sector: CPG OR Chemicals ✅ Newly created position with a mandate to build something from scratch ✅ Direct visibility to the CEO and senior leadership ✅ Backed by private equity with ambitious growth investment ✅ Blend of strategy, execution, and future team-building ✅ Equity participation Our client is a global leader in specialty chemicals that was recently PE-acquired is scaling aggressively. To accelerate this journey, we’re hiring a Senior Marketing Communications & Brand Manager. This is more than a job. It’s a chance to: Build processes, frameworks, and brand.

Are you recycling talent… or reinventing your future?

Most job seekers aren’t “stuck” they’re unclear. Not about skills, but about what they truly want and why. I see it all the time in recruiting: people chasing the “next logical role” without asking, Is this what I actually want to do? I just finished Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David. He breaks strategy into five stages: Clarity, Thinking, People, Systems, Positioning & Leverage. The one that hit me hardest was Clarity. Clarity = unplug from the busyness of life and decide exactly what you want and why your vision, values, and non-negotiables. Then choose your path (operator, builder, visionary) and align your goals, calendar, and habits to match. This past year I went all-in on that alignment: * Joined the 5AM club and start with meditation to set the vision for today and tomorrow. * Got granular with my calendar highest-impact activities first. The result? Compounding productivity and more meaningful work. If you’re in a transition (or want to level up), try this 20-minute Clarity Sprint: * Write your top 3 non-negotiables. * Pick your path: operator / builder / visionary. * Block two high-impact calendar slots you’ll protect this week. What’s one non-negotiable you’re committing to this quarter?

🔦 Looking for a new role is one of the hardest professional challenges you’ll face. Most people focus on polishing their résumé or sending out more applications. But from years of conversations with hiring leaders, I’ve noticed something important: The real breakthrough comes when you find the point of need inside the organization and then clearly show how you can help solve it. Where many candidates go wrong is putting the burden on the hiring manager to connect the dots. They leave it up to the company to figure out: “How does this person’s background fit here?” Here’s the truth: they won’t. And if they have to, you’ve likely already lost their attention. The candidates who stand out are the ones who take the time to: 🔹 Identify the real need inside the business. 🔹 Connect their past experiences directly to that need. 🔹 Clarify what they will deliver today and how they’ll grow with the company tomorrow. It’s a subtle shift, but a powerful one. When you clarify and connect your story for them, you’re not just applying to a job you’re showing how you can become part of their strategy. Clarity creates confidence. Confidence gets conversations. And conversations open doors. 👉 If you’re in a job search right now, ask yourself: Am I leaving it up to them to figure out how I fit, or am I connecting the dots for them?

A few months ago, I was speaking with the CEO of a mid-sized specialty chemicals organization. He shared the challenges they’re facing in the current economic climate, and that their approach had been to simply “wait it out.” I get it. A lot of leaders are feeling the same pressure. I shared that I’ve observed other organizations are taking a different approach. Many are actually leaning in with investing in future growth, building stronger sales frameworks (playbooks), and top grading their teams with new talent. Why? Because the market is shifting. The way products and services are sold today is not the same as it was even a few years ago. Customers expect more insight, more value, and a more strategic partnership. And here’s the interesting part...just a couple of days ago, that same organization reached out and asked us to act as a trusted advisor, partnering with them as part of their growth strategy. It’s a reminder that while “waiting it out” feels safe in the short term, real opportunity comes from preparing for what’s next. 👉 I’m curious how your organization approaching this moment? Are you in “wait it out” mode, or are you making moves to position for growth?

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