About Mike Maffei
Executive Career Advisor With Decades of Hiring Experience
Mike Maffei brings a hiring-side perspective to executive career coaching and job search strategy, shaped by decades inside the organizations that make hiring decisions.
A Different Kind of Perspective
Mike Maffei has spent his career inside the organizations that make hiring decisions. Over several decades, he has held senior leadership roles in human resources, recruiting, operations, and workforce management — giving him a perspective on the hiring process that is rarely available to job seekers.
His executive experience includes Fortune 50 work with Sodexo and The Home Depot, where he led significant HR and workforce initiatives. He has managed large recruiting organizations, evaluated thousands of candidates at every level, and made hiring decisions across a wide range of industries and functions.
Today, Mike is the Founding Partner of AlediumHR, a national healthcare recruiting firm based in Tampa, Florida. He remains actively engaged in the hiring market every day — which means his perspective is current, not theoretical.
The Executive Job Search Strategy Sessions were created because Mike saw a consistent pattern: accomplished professionals with genuine expertise were struggling in the job market not because of their experience, but because of how they were presenting it — and because they had no access to the kind of honest, insider perspective that could tell them what was actually going wrong.
He built this program to change that — giving experienced professionals access to the same lens employers and recruiters use because he has spent his career on that side of the table.
The Philosophy Behind My Work
“Experience alone does not translate into interviews. How you present that experience — and how employers perceive it — is what determines whether you get the call.”
Most experienced professionals approach the job market using many of the same methods that worked earlier in their careers. But the hiring market around them has changed. Technology plays a much larger role in how candidates are identified and screened, recruiters increasingly source candidates rather than simply waiting for applications, and experienced professionals have to make decades of experience relevant to what an employer needs now.
That is where I believe an experienced hiring-side perspective matters. I have spent decades evaluating candidates, leading recruiting and HR organizations, and making hiring decisions. My role is to look at an executive's positioning, resume, LinkedIn profile and search strategy through the same lens an employer or recruiter is likely to use.
The goal is practical: identify what is working, determine what may be getting in the way, and give the executive a clearer strategy for moving forward.
Experience & Background
30+ Years
Recruiting, human resources and executive leadership
Thousands of Candidates
Evaluated across executive, professional and leadership roles
Current Hiring Perspective
Founding Partner of AlediumHR and actively engaged in today's hiring market
Still Active in Today's Hiring Market
I am also the Founding Partner of AlediumHR, a national healthcare recruiting firm. That keeps me directly involved with employers, recruiters and candidates and gives me a current view of how hiring decisions are being made today.
Work With Mike
Whether you need a clear strategy for your own job search, hands-on help implementing that strategy, or private transition support for an executive in your organization, there is a defined way to work with me.
Strategy Session
$149
Start with a focused assessment of your executive job search.
Explore the Strategy Session →Strategy Implementation
$795
Hands-on implementation available after the Strategy Session.
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Executive Transition Advisory
$2,495 per executive
Private 90-day employer-sponsored transition support.
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