Julie Laufer

President and Founder

"I believe change and growth are essential to our success. As such, my ear is always to the ground to ensure that we will continually delight our candidates and clients."

Julie Laufer founded Laufer and Associates in 2001, with a steadfast devotion to excellence, a disciplined focus on details, and a creative flare. With 20 years of prior experience in the recruiting industry, Julie observed a tremendous opportunity to improve staffing outcomes by ensuring that candidates and clients are truly heard and understood. She has built her firm on the guiding belief that discovering perfect staffing matches is all in the details – and that takes real work and a uniquely discerning, highly individualized approach.

In the earliest years of the firm, Julie, who is passionate about the arts, enjoyed a creative renaissance of a sort, with the opportunity to put her vision into practice. Another integral element of her vision was the creation of an office environment that was warm, respectful, positive, and fun. Now, with a client roster that includes many of the region’s preeminent firms, she is supremely proud of the firm's progress and thankful for the loyalty of clients who made the founding and success of Laufer and Associates possible.

Today, Julie spends her time working with clients and candidates, motivating and growing her team, and on business development and strategic planning. In her never-ending pursuit of ways to be ahead of the curve, Julie listens intently and evolves her firm to best support her clients’ business objectives. And, with the warmth and natural talents that she is known for, Julie is passionate about working with her expert team to shape people’s lives and find the right "home" for candidates.

Julie graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Art from SUNY-Albany. While she intended to pursue a graduate program in art, she applied to a staffing agency that recognized her talents, ultimately cementing her future career in recruiting. Julie often reminds herself – and others – that the serendipitous events that occur in our lives sometimes are the greatest gifts.

Julie still finds time outside of the office to feed her passion with the arts as an artist and collector. Also, she regularly volunteers at the Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, working with quadriplegic and AIDS patients. Julie also serves as a Big Sister, a mentor to girls to help empower them with the knowledge that there is no limit to what they can do, become or achieve.