HumanWorks Staffing is a New York executive search practice based in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan — founded on a simple premise: the best person to evaluate an operations leader is someone who has done the operating.
Before founding HumanWorks, Darein spent his career inside the institutions he now recruits for:
Strategy roles at Blue Cross Blue Shield and Rush University Medical Center, plus hospital consulting — the buyer's seat at both a major payer and a major academic medical center.
Associate at A.T. Kearney, the global strategy firm — first-hand fluency in how consulting teams are staffed, evaluated, and developed.
The Fuqua School of Business, concentrating in strategy, health sector management, and finance.
Operating experience at Interactive One, a leading Black-owned digital media company in New York.
Every candidate we meet — placed or not — joins a structured, continuously maintained talent database. We rarely start a search from zero, and the bench gets deeper every engagement.
Structured scoring on every candidate, gate checks before any submission, and references before introduction. If a candidate doesn't clear the bar, they don't get advocated past it.
Every inquiry answered within one business day. Search updates on a fixed cadence. Hiring slows when communication does — so ours doesn't.
HumanWorks Staffing LLC operates as a Patrice & Associates franchise — one of the largest hospitality recruiting organizations in North America, with more than 30 years of placement history. That gives a focused New York practice the reach of a national firm: shared job orders, a deep candidate network, and proven placement infrastructure.
Our healthcare, consulting, and health tech practices are HumanWorks' own — built on the founder's background and run from New York with the same discipline and infrastructure.
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