Executive Search as a Service.
On annual search partnerships and when they beat buying searches one at a time.
How to scope an annual search partnership
An annual search partnership is scoped around the searches you can see coming, the ones you suspect, the advisory support you want between them, and a review rhythm. It is written down before the fee is set.
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What market intelligence should a search partner give you between searches?
Between searches, a search partner should tell you who is moving in your market, what senior roles are paying, what competitors are building and who is likely to be approachable when your next role opens.
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Measuring a search partnership: the four numbers that matter
Judge an annual search partnership on time to shortlist, completion rate, retention at twelve months and total cost against buying the same searches separately.
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Employer brand for a newly formed business: what senior candidates actually ask
Senior candidates considering a newly formed business ask about the plan, the funding, the parent's commitment, who they will report to and what happens if it fails. A candidate pack that answers those honestly does more than any employer brand campaign.
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- Succession insight as a service: keeping the internal picture currentSuccession insight within an annual partnership means the internal candidates for the most likely vacancies are assessed against the market on a rolling basis, so the answer is already known when a role opens.
- When to end an annual search partnership, and when not to start oneDo not start an annual search partnership below three senior searches a year, and end one when the hiring pattern changes, the relationship stops being candid, or the numbers no longer beat buying searches separately.
- What is Executive Search as a Service (ESaaS)?Executive Search as a Service is an annual executive talent partnership combining search capacity, market intelligence, talent mapping and advisory support for a recurring fee.
- Executive Search as a Service vs traditional executive searchTraditional executive search buys one assignment. ESaaS creates an ongoing executive talent relationship covering search plus intelligence and advisory.
- How many executive hires justify an annual search partnership?There is no magic number, but recurring senior hiring of roughly three to five searches a year is a sensible point to compare an annual partnership with buying each search separately.
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