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Recruiting qualified candidates
Our senior staff build original research for every search and contact candidates directly, going well beyond who happens to be looking.
Typical timing: Weeks 2 to 6
We conduct original, assignment-specific research for every engagement. We do not recycle candidates from a previous search or rely on a database or job posting to do the work. Our internal database and professional networks inform where we start looking, but the target list for your search is built fresh around your requirements.
Our senior staff contact prospective candidates directly, including sitting executives who are not actively looking and would never respond to an advertisement. Because our Managing Directors come from the industries they recruit for, those conversations happen peer to peer, and candidates take them seriously.
Diversity in our candidate pools is a product of how broadly we source, not something we address after the fact. We deliberately extend outreach beyond the networks that tend to reproduce familiar candidate pools. Our experience has consistently shown that the most qualified candidate and the most diverse candidate are often the same person.
On average, you will see your first group of candidates within three weeks of our kickoff meeting.