About Us

Magan Smith

Owner, Principal Connector & Unicorn Slayer

Magan has over 20 years of professional staffing experience. She applies a creative, relationship-focused approach; a wise instinct for assessing human nature and an unrelenting attention to the vital details of the search; combined with a natural coaching style applied to working with both her clients and her candidates.

As Principal Recruiter for NEXT, Magan has placed candidates in a variety of professional positions, across multiple industries and locations. Clients utilize NEXT’s services because of Magan’s consultative approach, wrapping her arms around the project with direct communication, her ability to cut to the heart of the position, and her ability to both guide and pivot with the client.

Moreover, Magan is a connector. Magan finds the “unicorns”.

Tim Smith

Administration & Operations (and the Yin to Magan’s Yang!)

After a full career in the field of banking and a lifetime building community and connections in Omaha, Tim now engages with NEXT in managing back-office processes, providing operations and administrative support for NEXT and its projects, including candidate interviews, reference checks, background checks, subject matter expertise, and market analytics.  By doing so he empowers Magan to maximize her super-power in locating and engaging talent. 

Working with clients in the field of banking has provided Tim with an understanding of the challenges that face businesses.  Rather than providing financial resources, he now connects with firms struggling to secure human resources in a hyper competitive staffing market.

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