Our History Founded in 1992 and located in Asheboro, NC, Stickle & Associates is an Executive Search firm specializing in searches for heavy industry. Our client list includes large, medium and small companies from the Pulp & Paper, Chemical, Petro-Chemical and Manufacturing industries. Our search experience has been in both the retainer and contingency areas. Our expertise is in staffing and recruiting for Technical, Operations, Engineering and Maintenance professionals. Stickle & Associates has handled and been very successful in searches outside of our areas of concentration. Our Mission Our mission has always been to become supplier of choice to our clients. We spend considerable time learning our client’s culture, business and job requirements in order to provide better quality candidates for each specific search. Candidates are always prescreened for each assignment and are proactively involved in all elements of the search