About us

Empowering businesses & the people who drive it.

Are you seeking a long-term recruitment partner that understands what makes your company and team unique?

We provide ongoing strategic advice in many related areas including: compensation analysis and benchmarking, succession planning, retention strategies, organizational design, and other talent management functions.

Limelight Recruitment utilizes a retainer based engagement model; this ensures we have the time and opportunity to partner and work collaboratively with our clients to help them meet their recruitment goals.

Bill Basarsky
Founder & Managing Partner
Limelight Recruitment Inc.

Born and educated in Saskatchewan, Bill brings over 15 years of executive and senior level recruitment experience, having worked with Canadian-based national and global recruitment firms.

Bill has extensive recruitment experience across a broad range of industries, including: agri-business, construction, telecommunications, oil and gas service and production, power generation, mining, technology, and wide array of other industrial organizations.

In 2015, Bill founded Limelight Recruitment Inc. to continue his work in the executive recruitment and consulting industry.

Working closely with a team of geographically dispersed recruitment consultants and support staff, Bill utilizes his team and their unique strengths on every assignment engaged upon.

As a trusted business advisor and human resource consultant, Bill provides ongoing support and advice to several clients across Canada.

Colin Merrick
Senior Associate
Limelight Recruitment Inc.

Colin is a human capital consultant specializing in executive recruitment, corporate strategy, leadership, process re-engineering, organizational effectiveness, mergers & acquisitions and compensation.

Colin has extensive executive experience having worked as Chief Operating Officer at Deloitte and most recently as the Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services at Newalta.

His expertise equips him with the ability to work collaboratively with clients to hire top-tier candidates that meet organizational needs and most importantly fit with company culture.

Colin utilizes his 30+ years of corporate and professional services firm experience to assist clients in hiring elite candidates to help organizations achieve their operational priorities.

Additionally, he works with executive and management teams to create integrated systems, programs and processes that align with organizational values, operational needs and financial objectives.

Colin is a Business Administration graduate from Calgary’s Mount Royal University and holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management from the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

Alexandra Zannis
Manager, Client Services and Administration
Limelight Recruitment Inc.

Alexandra joined the Limelight Recruitment team in 2019, she has an Honours Degree in Social Work from Carleton University as well as an Associate of Arts Degree in Global Studies. She currently resides in Ottawa while missing her roots back home in Calgary, Alberta.

With a strong emphasis on customer service and candidate care Alexandra leads all of Limelight Recruitments personality assessments, referencing, background checks and office administration.

What our clients are saying about us.

  • Limelight has been instrumental in supporting our growth plans and human resources strategy by identifying and attracting high performance talent. When it comes to the construction industry, Limelight is exceptionally well-networked and 'gets it' from an organizational strategy perspective. Limelight’s candidate documentation and presentation materials are best in class.

    Matt Thomson, C.A. President, Boom Construction

  • Our relationship with Limelight Recruitment is fantastic!  They are always very responsive to us and our requests receive immediate attention. Our projects with them have resulted in great candidates and hires that fit perfectly.  We completely trust them with our senior recruitment needs and highly recommend their services.

    Kristen Evans, C.A. President, North America, CanaDream RV Experience

  • Bill has led successful recruitment campaigns on behalf of Trotter & Morton Group of Companies for more than seven years. Limelight’s thorough process, network and dialogue with our Executive Team has been instrumental in the execution of our recruitment campaigns. The ongoing track record of the candidates that Limelight has placed in our organization makes them our go-to Partner for strategic recruitment.

    Steve Salt, C.A. Chief Financial Officer, Trotter & Morton Group of Companies

  • Following being placed by Bill in a senior HR capacity I became a client of Limelight Recruitment and began working with him to attract senior talent for a variety of roles. Bill is driven to provide high-caliber candidate options to the hiring committee; his detail orientation and tenacity is clearly demonstrated though his executive consultation and documentation.

    Sheri Dolomont, CPHR Director, Human Resources, EFW Radiology

  • “From start to finish, the Limelight Recruitment team took care of everything. They took the time to understand our corporate culture and engaged all relevant stakeholders. The result was having several quality candidates to choose from. CEL is very happy with the professional performance of Limelight and continues to utilize their expertise on an ongoing basis.

    Dallas Smith Chief Operating Officer, CEL Electrical Contractors

Helping clients achieve results
through their people.

We are a recruitment company that can provide more than just resumes of potentially qualified candidates for your key hires.

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