About InfluenceOfYour7
Built by Someone Who's Actually Made Hiring Decisions.
InfluenceOfYour7 is powered by Sublime Personnel, a Houston-based recruiting firm, and led by Senior Recruiting Partner Pete Proctor. It was founded to give people who need real support a direct place to go — resources, honest guidance, and a recruiter on their side, rather than another closed door.
Almost everyone reading this is somewhere on one of two paths: a job search that's become urgent, or a career move that deserves more planning than it's getting. InfluenceOfYour7 exists for both.
Pete Proctor
Senior Recruiting Partner
Sublime Personnel
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Full-cycle placements in 22 months at Rise Association Management Group, alongside a 30% reduction in organizational turnover
20+
Years leading full-cycle recruiting, executive search, and talent acquisition strategy and HR operations
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Specialized industries recruited for personally — not read about
Pete has spent his career on both sides of the hiring table — first running high-volume operations as a general manager, then leading full-cycle recruiting, executive search, and talent acquisition strategy across healthcare, private equity, financial services, insurance, technology, hospitality, commercial construction, and HOA property management.
That range isn't incidental. It's the reason InfluenceOfYour7 covers the specific industries it does — Pete has personally recruited for most of them, not read about them.
Before recruiting, operations
Pete's path into recruiting didn't start in an HR department. It started in operations — running restaurants starting around 1989 across various private concepts, and later as a General Manager at Saltgrass Steak House for nearly a decade, then at Lupe Tortilla — where he was responsible for the P&L, the labor, and the people, every single day.
That's a different kind of pressure than most recruiters have felt firsthand, and it's part of why InfluenceOfYour7 doesn't talk about careers in the abstract. Pete has been the manager making the call, and he's been the person on the other side of a tough review. Both experiences shape how this platform talks to candidates.
Before any of that, in his twenties, Pete worked alongside his father — a welder — on oil and gas repair and support work. It's not the kind of thing that shows up on a recruiting resume, but it's real, hands-on experience in an industry most recruiters only understand from job descriptions.
A note from Pete
My Why
"I believe the people who end up on my path — the candidates I talk to, the resumes that cross my desk — are placed there for a reason. I don't take that lightly. My mission isn't to push what I believe on anyone who comes through this platform. It's simply to do what I feel called to do: meet people exactly where I find them and help lift them up from there."
That's the whole idea behind InfluenceOfYour7. Every candidate I work with has a story, a set of skills, and a value that often isn't being reflected back to them — by an employer, a hiring manager, or a broken screening process. I don't need you to share my faith to work with me. I just need you to know that the way I show up for you — honestly, without an agenda, genuinely invested in where you land — isn't a sales strategy. It's who I am.
What We Believe
If your employer isn't building you up, they're tearing you down.
Most professionals go years without an honest, expert read on where they actually stand — not because they lack the skill, but because no one in the room is incentivized to tell them the truth. InfluenceOfYour7 is built to be that honest read, backed by a recruiter who has spent a career on the hiring side of the table and knows exactly what it's looking for.
Why we're priced the way we are.
A lot of this industry runs on desperation and big promises — pricing built around how scared or stuck someone feels, not around what the work actually costs to deliver well. We priced InfluenceOfYour7 below much of the market on purpose. Our promise isn't a guarantee we can't back up. It's a caring, honest look at exactly where you are in your career.
Strategy over chance.
Very little about a career change happens organically. Most of it happens strategically — deliberately, with a plan, and with someone in your corner who can see the path more clearly than you can from inside it. Self-driven improvement is what actually brings about change and success. Our job is to give that effort direction.
Ready to Talk?
Book a session with Pete, request an ATS review, or get the full IO7 Career Report. No fluff. No upsell. Just honest industry intelligence.