About the O'Connor Group

Marcia Zaruba O'Connor is the Founder and President of The O’Connor Group.

The O’Connor Group is the leading provider of retained professional search, talent management and human capital project management services for the accounting and finance, human resources and sales and marketing industries. She started The O'Connor Group due to a need to assist these experienced leaders with their career and to connect them to opportunities that best match their true interests.

Marcia is currently the Vice-President of Committees for the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society. She was also the Past-President of the Philadelphia Regional Chapter of SHRM and the former Area 4 District Director for the SHRM State Council. Among her notable achievements as a volunteer leader, she helped create the now seven year old Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year Award in conjunction with four other SHRM area chapters. Also, when she entered the entrepreneurial world, Marcia was the Executive Director of the Delaware Valley’s first networking organization specifically targeting public accountants, The Public Accounting Networking Group. Marcia is also on the board for Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, a non-profit which is committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly.

Her previous experience includes service at Arthur Andersen, first as an auditor, and culminating in her role as Director of all Philadelphia recruiting. Marcia was also in charge of Campus Relations for Andersen Consulting in their Business Process Management Group. In addition, she was the National Recruiting Manager for the Hay Group, a leading Human Resources Consulting firm. Marcia then joined the executive search firm, Salveson Stetson Group, as a senior consultant. More recently, she was the Director of Human Capital Practice for the Philadelphia office of Resources Global Professionals, a leading global provider of project professionals.

Marcia graduated from Widener University with a BS degree in accounting and an MS degree in human organization development from Villanova University.

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"The O'Connor Group was able to quickly assess our needs and provide a thorough project plan. The follow through from the consultant was critical to the completion of our project. With very little direction the O'Connor Group was able to deliver quality results."
— Mindy Geib, Vertex Inc.

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