The Author

J.J. Madden

Executive Recruiter and Author

J.J. (John) Madden has spent four decades recruiting. He trained at Management Recruiters International back when “digital recruiting” meant having a second filing cabinet, learning the trade from the original pioneers. He has been a featured guest on ABC News and NPR with his insights on ways to get hired.

He has placed hundreds of data storage and technology professionals with employers across Information Technology, including Federal, DoD, Intel, and SLED. His relationships are deep and wide with key personnel at HPE, NVIDIA, Dell EMC, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and dozens more employers worldwide. His work spans HPC, storage, cloud, security, and AI.

His view comes from the manager’s side of the table, where jobs are born out of urgency, internal networks, and quiet conversations long before a posting goes public. He has spent his career solving the right problem for the right person instead of hoping an ATS feels charitable.

John runs his business on four values: respect everyone, communicate honestly and openly, follow up on time and every time, and always do what is right. In a book called Ghosted to Hired, the third one is not an accident.

That is the whole point of the book: four decades of insider experience turned into plain steps you can take yourself, so you reach the people who actually make the decisions. If it helps you, he hopes you will pass it along to someone still stuck in the apply-and-pray cycle.

John and Lora

He lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Lora, his compass and quiet strength. He plays golf with the optimism of a man who should probably temper his expectations, and he never misses the Army-Navy game, despite its annual toll on his blood pressure.