Welcome to Tidsear Consulting
Tidsear is built on a simple idea: hiring works best when it runs like a system. Inspired by the Scottish Gaelic word for “teacher,” we help organizations bring structure and clarity to the parts of their business that depend on people through recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and manager development.
Our focus is on practical, repeatable processes that make hiring faster, more consistent, and easier for everyone involved. No jargon. No over‑engineering. Just clean, effective systems that help teams operate with confidence.
Our approach starts by understanding how your hiring actually works today — where decisions slow down, where candidates fall out, and where managers need support. From there, we redesign the workflow, build simple tools, and teach your team how to use them. The result is a talent acquisition operation that feels organized, intentional, and aligned with your goals.
Let’s collaborate, whether you’re growing, stabilizing, or rebuilding, Tidsear helps you create hiring and onboarding systems that support your next stage. We guide you through every step, making sure your people processes become a strength — not a bottleneck.
Meet Your Consultants
Jonathan Foss
Co-founder and Managing Director
Jon is an operations‑focused consultant with deep experience helping organizations build hiring, onboarding, and practice management systems that actually work. With a background in performance improvement, organizational behavior, and operational design, he brings a structured, practical approach to solving people‑dependent business problems.
Across his career, Jon has led large‑scale process improvements, redesigned advisor operating models, and helped teams adopt clearer workflows that reduce friction and improve decision quality. He’s known for his ability to quickly diagnose where systems break down and for creating simple, repeatable solutions that teams can use immediately.
Jon holds a BS in Economics and an MBA from the University of Louisville. His work blends analytical thinking with a strong understanding of human behavior, giving clients a balanced perspective that strengthens both operations and team performance.
Whether improving hiring consistency, building advisor workflows, or helping leaders operate with more clarity, Jon’s focus is always the same: create systems that support growth and make work easier for the people running them.
Chantal Foss
Co-founder and Managing Director
Chantal is a seasoned talent acquisition operations consultant with more than 12 years of hands‑on experience helping organizations hire smarter and operate with greater clarity. She has supported teams across technology, engineering, sales, and manufacturing, always with the same goal: make hiring easier, more consistent, and more effective.
Her work centers on understanding how a business truly operates, then building practical systems that improve efficiency, strengthen the candidate experience, and help managers make better decisions. Chantal has a proven track record of reducing time‑to‑hire, tightening processes, and improving collaboration across recruiting and operations teams.
Clients value her straightforward approach, her ability to diagnose issues quickly, and her commitment to building long‑term partnerships grounded in transparency and trust. With a Bachelor’s in Pre‑Professional Legal Studies and a Master’s in Talent and Organizational Development with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, she brings both depth and perspective to every engagement.
Whether you need to refine your hiring process, navigate a challenging talent market, or bring more structure to how your team works, Chantal provides clear guidance and steady support from start to finish.
