John Peterson
Senior Recruiter

Biography: I was born and raised near Cooperstown, NY.
1971 - 1975 - Deployed at the U.S. Navy Pearl Harbor Sub Base
1977 - 1980 - AT&T Technician
1980 - 2004 - Chemical Personnel Search - Chemical Recruiter #1 in Sales, of 80 in house fulltime recruiters, for 17 years #2 & #3 in Sales for 7 years MVP several times
2004 - Present - Recruiting at ASG Specialty: Recruiting from $60,000 - $120,000 range.

Primary Industry Focus: Specialty Chemicals, Foods, and Pharmaceuticals Industry, Ethanol

Primary Job Types: Process, Production, & Project Engineers & Plant Management Chemists

Why I believe in ASG: Caring coworkers’ Our worldwide contact database of Candidates, Employers, and other Search Firms. We are networked into 100 other recruiters in the US who we share applicants and accounts with daily. I'm in this business because: Of my co-workers, the freedom, and the harder I work the more successful I am.

Philosophy: My word is everything. I ask detailed questions to make sure a job/recruit is a good fit.

Hobbies: Joke Telling, & Reading (Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, & Newsweek)

Favorite Books: Citizen Soldier, Shadow Divers, April of 1865, John Adams, 1776, Tiger Patrol, & The Things They Carried.

Favorite Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, What About Bob?, Tootsie, & As Good as it Gets, Crash, & Funk Brothers.

Favorite Music: Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Annie Lennox, Prince (Diamonds & Pearl), Cat Power and an NPR Fanatic

Favorite Vacation Spot: My House and Siesta Key, FL