Retained executive search, built for leadership roles where precision matters more than speed-driven CV volume.
Exclusive engagement, milestone-based fee structure, full market mapping, and accountability for final outcome.
Non-exclusive race to submit profiles, limited market intelligence, and lower process discipline for leadership roles.
Fees are milestone-based to align progress with decision quality.
Typical fee: 30 to 33 percent of first-year CTC.
Mandates usually move from engagement to offer acceptance in six to twelve weeks.
Deep discovery with the client covering role brief, culture, success criteria, and deal-breakers. Output: Position Specification.
Market mapping identifies every relevant organisation and individual. Typical long list includes twenty-five to forty candidates.
Confidential outreach to passive candidates with screening, assessment, and structured reference mapping.
Shortlist delivery of three to five qualified candidates with written assessment reports.
Interview coordination, candidate preparation, offer management, and counter-offer coaching.
Thirty, sixty, and ninety-day post-joining check-ins with replacement guarantee monitoring and long-term partnership.
If the placed candidate exits within six months, findXventures runs one replacement search at no additional professional fee, subject to settled invoices.
Client and candidate data are managed under strict confidentiality protocols. Current and past clients remain off-limits for twenty-four months after mandate closure.
In retained search, the client pays an upfront fee for exclusive focus on the mandate. Contingency models involve multiple agencies racing to submit CVs without accountability for depth. Retained search is more rigorous and better suited to leadership roles.
Most searches are completed in eight to twelve weeks from engagement to offer acceptance. Timelines vary with role complexity, target candidate availability, and interview speed.
The fee is 30 to 33 percent of first-year CTC, paid in three milestone-based tranches: engagement, shortlist, and joining. Candidates are never charged any fee.
If a placed candidate leaves within six months of joining, findXventures conducts one replacement search at no additional professional fee, subject to all invoices being settled.
Contingency is considered selectively for Director-level searches on an exclusive basis only. All VP and C-suite searches are retained.
No. Current and past clients are off-limits for candidate sourcing for twenty-four months after mandate closure.