A critical appointment is a business investment. Our fee shares its outcome.
A leadership appointment shapes strategy, momentum and confidence across the organisation. The outcome is not the shortlist. It is a leader who integrates and stays. Our commercial model is built around that outcome.
What stands behind every engagement.
Accountability before the search
Our commitment starts with role calibration and market truth, because the success of an appointment is largely settled in how the role is defined.
A commitment on the brief
The objective criteria for the shortlist are agreed in writing before the search begins. If we cannot present candidates who meet them within fifteen days, the commencement fee is returned in full. The commitment tests the realism of the brief and our reading of the market at the start, when a correction costs least. It never replaces the depth of the search that follows.
A fee that follows the outcome
On executive and chief executive mandates, a share of our fee is held until the appointment has proven itself after joining. The share and the timing are set out in each proposal.
Continuity assurance for up to 365 days
Covers both resignation and termination on performance grounds. If the executive resigns within the assurance period, we run the replacement search at no further fee. If employment is terminated for performance, we run the replacement at a reduced fee, because accountability is shared once employment begins.
Shared governance of the decision
The board or hiring leader, HR and the firm each own a defined part of the decision, agreed at the outset, so shared responsibility never becomes shared ambiguity.
A shared workspace
Clients may be given access to our own applicant tracking system for the mandate, under the confidentiality and data protection terms of the engagement letter.
Our tracking system, open to your team.
Clients may be given access to our own applicant tracking system as a shared workspace for the duration of the mandate.
Live pipeline
Every candidate, stage and next step, visible to your team as the search moves.
Notes and feedback in one place
Interview notes, assessments and feedback shared securely, so decisions are quick and well informed.
Working alongside us
Your hiring leaders work in the same space as our team, as a genuine co working environment for the mandate.
The same method for every mandate. Depth set by consequence.
Every engagement runs on the H&S Method, to one standard. What deepens with the consequence of the role is the depth of assessment, the intelligence delivered and the share of our fee held until the outcome is proven. The Outcome Partnership applies in part to every engagement, and in full to chief executive and board mandates.
Fee shares, timings and assurance periods are set out in each proposal and confirmed in the engagement letter, which governs in every case. Apex is the name of our engagement model for chief executive and board mandates; the APEX Leadership Profile is our assessment for C Suite and board candidates, used within it.
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We share full commercial terms in a proposal after the first conversation.