About Lewis Career Services
We focus on collaboration for your career and business resultsLet’s achieve your employment goals together
In 2019, Peter Lewis founded Lewis Career Services after more than 20 years in the IT resources industry. At its foundation, LCS helps people and companies in IT and business successfully seek and find each other. And at the core of our approach is a not-so-revolutionary idea long overdue in the entrenched HR and staffing ecosystem: matching professionals with hiring companies should be done in a collaborative way instead of in heated competition.
A descendent of Captain John Couch, Peter’s legacy is deeply rooted in the founding and financial growth of Portland. Peter’s great grandfather, Cicero Hunt Lewis, was a prominent business leader in 19th century Portland who believed in a tight connection between business and local society.
Work should enhance lives in a way that enables everyone to enjoy a thriving career while putting equal attention on family and community. Peter shares this vision and proudly continues the tradition with integrity in how LCS works with people and companies to deliver enhanced connections in the most meaningful way.
For Hiring Companies
First and foremost, we lead with lifting people up. Companies are as good as the people doing the hiring, as well as who they hire and choose to lead teams and projects, develop products, or generate marketing. Choosing to work with a small private firm gives you the focus and dedication to the position’s importance. We believe working with LCS offers an alternative to enlisting large firms with multiple recruiters who work a variety of ‘job orders’ without a singular focus on the true nature of your position. Working in partnership, not in competition, with your HR team is vital to a collaboration that is instead painless and efficient.
Services for Hiring Companies
Our work zeros in on people who share your vision and want to work with you. There is always a choice, and we make sure that drives the right candidate to join your company.
- Full retainer searches
- Fee-based permanent and contractor professional hiring
- Full onboarding service including skills testing, background checks, and drug-testing
- Ramp up guarantees
For Professional Candidates
The LCS mindset on job searches is “Let’s get you to work”. It’s about helping you land the right role with a new company that helps meet your career goals and enhances your life. We aren’t looking for ‘placements’, we are paving the way for your next job and more. Being treated fairly and with dignity – like you matter most in the quest for the best hiring outcome – seems to be forgotten in the run of the mill recruiter/candidate connection. No matter what type of employment we are pursuing together, at the end of the day it’s your input and needs that matter most to LCS.
Services for Professionals
No one should feel forced into a situation that they would not choose. We will work together in the search for the best position to match your goals and qualifications.
- Career strategy and development
- Personal and detailed interview coaching
- Resume review and editing
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More About Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis
LCS Owner Summits Mount Kilimanjaro
After graduating from Sunset High School Peter Lewis did what many young people did at that age and traveled through Europe to see history and meet new people. Upon returning home, he quickly went to work in the family aviation construction business building experimental aircraft. This eventually took him to North Africa where he worked with a team of Nigerians and expatriates from around the world to construct and fly the first aircraft ever built in Nigeria – an aviation first in that country.
After three years building three prototypes, helping to train workers and setting up the beginnings of Nigeria’s own Aircraft Manufacturing industry, he returned home to Portland where he married and started a family. Peter decided to switch gears from aviation and was fortunate enough to work in the Electronics Manufacturing, Internet Services, Software Professional Services and IT Staffing industries.
Staffing helped unveiled his passion for listening to the stories and journeys of people that inspires his mission to help connect the rich tapestry of experience in each individual to their true career calling. After nearly 20 years in the technical staffing business working for local companies he made the choice to launch Lewis Career Services (LCS) to continue doing what he loves best: helping connect people in new or next professional adventures.
