Verso Jobs

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“We thought we needed to tone down our brand. But Sherwood helped us see that what we loved most about it, though it might make us some enemies, was exactly what our audience would love too. They gave us the clarity and courage to commit to who we are and show it to the world.”

— Joe Dunikoski, Founder of Verso Jobs

Verso’s Manifesto

The pioneering spirit built the world’s greatest innovations—from skyscrapers to smartphones. But now, a malaise of managerial mediocrity has smothered that American pioneer spirit. 

Universities churn out credentialed drones—and that’s exactly who once-great innovators keep hiring. Risk-takers are overlooked while desk-fillers are promoted. Organizations that once built, discovered, and dreamed no longer do so. 

Peter Thiel put it bluntly: “We asked for flying cars and they gave us 140 characters.”  

Standards have eroded. Mediocrity is expected. Playing it safe for a mortgaged, plywood hut in the suburbs is easier than staking claim on a beautiful frontier and building your own log cabin. It is easier to do mediocre work, so that’s what most people do. 

NASA hasn’t come close to putting a man on mars. The banking system made to create wealth now extracts it instead. When enterprises fail, we bail them out instead of asking who allowed it to happen, and why they don’t have the right people.

Current hiring practices favor desk-filling managers, not pioneers. American business, the very engine that once forged new industries and changed the world, is choked by outdated hiring, virtue signaling, and anti-merit decision-making. The wrong people get promoted. The right people go undiscovered.

Your best potential hires are trapped in the pale of an automated system that couldn’t possibly understand how to locate them. Your online applicants are 90% garbage. Your network is too small. Every day, pioneers and world-builders go undiscovered because the hiring process is designed to find rule-followers, not revolutionaries.

America was built by doers, by pioneers and builders willing to work hard. The framers of our Constitution weren’t pushing paper; they designed a new Republic from a chaotic revolution. Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were all volunteers, driven up San Juan Hill by a common mission and a lot of grit. David Ogilvy, an immigrant, found his life’s work at age 38 by moving to New York and building one of the most influential ad agencies in history. 

World-altering ideas don’t come from bureaucracies. They come from bold individuals with the right teams to back them. Some such men still aspire to create our flying cars. Brave souls reject 140 characters and choose to write essays instead. 

Verso is here to find the ambitious, the restless, and those who look Westward. Excellence, perseverance, and unorthodox thinking should be promoted, not cowed. We reject machine-driven hiring and focus on real talent, real conversations, and values-aligned placements. 

Verso finds those courageous hearts who want to do great work, and places them where they belong—among teams and visionaries who will change the world.

Verso takes a simple, twofold approach to create excellent teams united by a common goal, and more. Employers post their problem—the vacancy. Then, Verso delivers the solution—a list of suitable candidates from our database of job-seekers.

Verso’s game-based matchmaking approach means you don’t just find the most talented person—you fight the most talented person who fits your team.
Verso pays attention to more than your resume. Our approach assesses your temperament, competencies, work style, and other personal factors to match employers and employees who suit one another.

Verso. To The Heights.