A classic search protects you from a bad hire over 3 to 6 months. Express recruitment gives you the same rigour — with a shortlist in 6 to 8 days. Here's how to choose.
This technique for finding high-level experts and managers was developed just after the Second World War, in 1946, when the United States faced a severe shortage of senior managers to run its companies.
The first firms to practise it were Anglo-Saxon in origin — they later expanded into Europe and Asia to support the global growth of their client companies.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the profession developed rapidly across Europe, and then in France, where it became known as headhunting.
The core value of working with a specialist firm is limiting the risk of a strategic mis-hire to a minimum.
A casting error for a senior executive can cause real damage — lost markets, team disorganisation, strategic delay. A specialist firm manages that risk.
An independent professional can approach highly qualified candidates and build the trust essential to success — especially where confidentiality matters.
Once the right expert is identified, references are checked directly — covering experience, managerial qualities, know-how and interpersonal skills.
The firm's role doesn't end at signature. It accompanies the executive through the trial period with regular progress reviews.
If a placement fails, the firm offers a success guarantee over 3 to 6 months and commits to finding another senior executive.
Client companies benefit from external experience, a wider talent pool and a well-honed process — saving time and increasing efficiency.
Executive search has real advantages — but it can also fall short for companies that need to move urgently.
To be effective, a firm needs a good grasp of the client's sector — and consultants often have to build that knowledge before a search can even begin.
If the firm lacks contacts in the exact strategic function sought, it may fall back on job ads instead of direct approach — at the cost of confidentiality.
A 3–6 month search can become irrelevant for a company facing an urgent transformation. Speed of reaction is critical.
After a candidate is selected and contracted, the company must still wait out their notice period — generally three months or more for senior executives.
A solution for recruiting highly qualified experts in a very short time — combining the rigour of executive search with the time constraints of clients who need quality recruitment in a hurry.
A senior manager has resigned or left without notice
A highly qualified manager had to be let go for ethical reasons
An accident prevents a key executive from returning to work
A reorganisation requires rapid transformation of the business model
An external growth operation requires new executives urgently
You need to sell a business unit and find a leader fast
A direct, qualitative approach to professionals, combined with our network of pre-qualified experts and targeted sector research.
From briefing to confirmed mandate, our commitment is a shortlist within a maximum of 8 working days.
Active since 2014, with 1,500+ experts and executives, plus access to 5,000+ more for urgent needs.
Specialists identified are available to start immediately, without a notice period.
FIT in NETWORK® quickly finds specialist managers, executives and board members for the following positions.
In all these functions, our teams have developed the know-how to carry out expert searches successfully. To recruit your future talent and find the rare profiles your company needs, you can count on us.
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