About Us – Boutique Recruiting

Boutique Recruiting. Powered by relationships.

A boutique staffing service with OVER 50 years of combined experience!

Boutique Recruiting helps place finance, accounting and admin professionals throughout Southern California. Our principals have deep relationships within the business community and we take the time to find the right candidates.

Put Us to the Test

Sema is great specialist! Thank you for working with me and finding me this amazing opportunity! Looking forward to work with you in the future and will recommend you to my connections!

Dmitry Budanov Finance and Accounting Manager

Innesa has helped to fill temporary staffing needs for me. She takes time to understand the business and the particular role we are searching for and always presents quality candidates. The process from expressing a need, scheduling interviews, and getting somebody in the positions was quick and easy.

Eric Eddy, CPA Controller TEAL Electronics Corporation

Sema works tirelessly to fill positions with not just any candidate, but the right candidate. She is always communicating, so you always know where she's at with a project. She's a great asset.

Andrea Salazar Senior Executive Assistant

I have worked with Innesa for a couple of years and she has been great to work with. She has presented very qualified candidates to us and she is very responsive and easy to work with. I would definitely recommend her.

Laurie Sneve SVP, Chief Accounting Officer Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

Sema is the first recruiter I met when I relocated to San Diego and I met a dozen after her but she's the one who landed me in my current role and she was the most personable and responsive of all of the recruiters I worked with. She's professional and a great negotiator. I highly recommend Sema to help you locate an executive role in San Diego.

Jennifer Trainer Interim Controller

Sema is excellent! Very professional, quick, and was able to help me out even though my needs were a little different from the norm... highly recommend her!

Karilyn Edwards Accounting Manager

Innesa has partnered with me and the recruiting team at Volcano on several occasions. Her responses to our needs have been exemplary. She clearly understands what it means to quickly, yet thoughtfully partner to solve difficult talent problems. Thanks for making a difference and doing it with personality. Keep it going!

Cole Williamson,
SHRM-SCP, GPHR, SPHR-CA Director of Human Resources
and Administrative Services Profil Institute for Clinical Research, Inc.

We’re committed to long-term relationships.

We’re proud of the long lasting partnerships we have with our clients and our candidates. We’ve helped companies staff up as they’ve grown over the years. We’ve also helped our candidates progress throughout their careers, placing them in mid-level positions and then in management positions years later.

We do what’s right for our clients and our candidates. We won’t send an unqualified candidate just to fill a slot. We’re more concerned with the long-term success than short-term check-the-box mentality.

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Innesa Burrola

President

Innesa obtained her Bachelor's Degree in International Business with an emphasis in Leadership and Management in 2008. She worked her way through college and grew up in a family full of entrepreneurs. Her unstoppable devotion to a better life and strong work ethic was instilled at a very early age. After graduation, she was immediately recruited into this industry and since then has worked for three larger staffing companies within the Southern California marketplace. While she established many valuable relationships during this period, she also wanted to be able to provide a more personalized service to her clients. After forming a successful partnership with her sister at their last corporate job, Innesa and her sister decided to venture off and form their own Boutique Recruiting firm.

Innesa is a successful Mompreneur, outside the office Innesa spends time with her little boy and little girl and is devoted to living a very healthy lifestyle.

Sema Zavulunova

V.P. of Recruiting Services

Sema has been in the recruiting world for 6 years in Southern California. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Business Communications from Arizona State University. After graduation, Sema relocated to San Diego and began her career in recruiting. Sema has worked side by side with her sister since the start of her career. She has a strong focus and dedication to her work which comes from her entrepreneurial family. She really enjoys working with candidates and helping them find the perfect match for their careers. She has developed an ability to really match her candidates on technical and cultural background, while building a well known name for herself in the business of recruiting and staffing.

On the personal side, Sema is married and enjoys spending time with her family and friends, staying active, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and traveling.

Kendra Krieg

Senior Executive Recruiter

Kendra obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Business Marketing from San Diego State University. Her background consists of sales, relationship management and accounting experience. Her passion lies in making that personable connection with her candidates and clients. Kendra digs deep to truly understand the needs for her candidates and matches them accordingly. Kendra is rewarded when she gets the opportunity to enhance and change peoples lives.

On a personal note, Kendra has lived in San Diego for most of her life. She is a mother to her two beautiful children that keep her busy and staying young! She also enjoys living an active and healthy lifestyle by participating in yoga, hiking, going to the beach, and traveling.

Serena Greenwood

Executive Recruiter

Serena obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from San Diego State University. She has a passion for making a positive contribution to the lives of those she serves; and a gift for matching talented people with the right companies and teams for the ideal long term match. For the past 11 years, Serena has built long term trusting business relationships with key executives and candidates of all levels in the San Diego area. She began her career in the healthcare and sales fields and then transitioned that community commitment to guiding candidates in career growth within the recruiting field where she has truly found her calling.

On a personal note, she was born and raised in Michigan and settled in San Diego during college. She exudes a strong midwestern work ethic coupled with a commitment to a healthy lifestyle. She is the proud mother of two boys and enjoys activities such as hiking, traveling, dancing and water sports.

Madisyn Napier

Recruiting Assistant

Madisyn is a Seattle native that made her way to San Diego less than a year ago. She graduated from a top business school in Silicon Valley while playing both soccer and softball at the collegiate level. Madisyn’s passion lies with helping others and making a positive impact on each person she comes in contact with. In October 2016, she endured on a 7 week volunteer trip to South Africa to help teach English and Physical Education to the local primary schools. She plans to travel the world and volunteer at each place she goes to. She is an animal lover, sports enthusiast and beach fanatic! She is proud to be apart of the Boutique family and looks forward to touching the lives of the people we serve!

What determines a successful placement?

Every Relationship begins face to face.

In our deep experience we’ve discovered the primary deciding factor on determining if a placement will be successful—company culture. It’s one thing to find qualified candidates, but it takes an investment of time to ensure a candidate will fit with a company’s culture.

We meet every candidate we place in order to get to know them. (In fact, if they won’t invest the time to meet with us, we won’t work with them. This is the very least we owe our client companies.)

Likewise, we meet with every company that is considering our services. We meet their management team and associate staff members. We tour the office and lunch room. And we interview thoroughly asking many questions: do employees eat lunch together? are they expected to attend happy hours? is the office quiet? Or does music play overhead? do people really take their vacations? While you might be primarily concerned with a candidate’s technical abilities, it’s the personal and group fit that determines if an employee will stay onboard for the long term.