Katie O'Neil

Katie knows that the best recruiters do not simply understand résumés. They understand businesses, growth, and the kind of people who can move an organization forward.

Since joining JMC in 2026, Katie has brought extensive recruitment experience and a strong commercial perspective to the team. She leads full-cycle recruitment searches from initial strategy and market mapping through sourcing, screening, interviews, selection, offer negotiation, and successful placement. Her focus is primarily on sales recruitment, go-to-market talent, and senior-level recruitment, helping organizations find the people who will lead teams, build markets, strengthen customer relationships, and drive revenue.

Katie is particularly skilled at recruiting sales professionals and senior leaders in competitive talent markets. She understands that success in these roles cannot always be captured through job titles or years of experience alone. Katie looks closely at how candidates build relationships, influence decisions, navigate complexity, and deliver results. Her ability to quickly understand a business and ask the right questions allows her to identify candidates who align with both the immediate role and the organization’s longer-term direction.

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Before joining JMC, Katie led talent acquisition efforts through two major technology acquisitions while based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Those experiences gave her firsthand insight into scaling teams, building recruitment functions, supporting organizational change, and attracting specialized talent during periods of rapid growth and transformation.

Her career also includes several roles with one of the world’s largest recruitment firms. Katie managed a full 360 recruitment desk focused on administrative and industrial staffing in Calgary, worked as an internal recruiter supporting Western Canada, and served as a resource manager within the technology division in Halifax. Together, these experiences gave her broad exposure to different industries, talent markets, and recruitment models while shaping the adaptable and business-minded approach she brings to every search.

Over the years, Katie has built an exceptional network across Atlantic Canada and beyond. She is known for making genuine connections with candidates, understanding client needs quickly, and remaining closely involved throughout the entire recruitment process. For Katie, successful recruitment is not about making the fastest match. It is about finding the right person and creating a hiring process that gives both the client and the candidate confidence in the decision.

Katie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Saint Mary’s University. Outside JMC, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children and exploring local restaurants with friends, ideally over a great meal and a glass of wine.