Exclusive Search: The Smart Way to Hire

Exclusive Search: The Smart Way to Hire 

Briefing 2-3 agencies and hoping to get impactful results is the worst way to recruit. It's a numbers game, which nobody wants to play anymore.  

An exclusive search works differently. You appoint one partner as your sole recruiter for the role, you take the time to fully brief them on what you need, and in return, you will get their full attention, and access to their entire network. It's a focused process, built on real market research, inclusive of your brand values, and proven to be the most successful way to attract the best talent.  

Here's what that looks like in practice: 

You Own the Data and See Everyone We Talk To 

Because we're mapping the whole market on your behalf, everything we find belongs to you. You get full oversight of every candidate we speak to, not just the ones who make the cut. This might mean offering you the data on 100+ candidates meeting your criteria: Offering marketing insights; competitor analysis; as well as the most accurate insights into the skills you may be able to attract.  

This is the difference between hoping your recruiter found the right person and knowing exactly how the market looks. 

We Put Your Employer Brand in Front of Our Network 

Anonymous job ads and generic candidate database searches only ever reach the 20% of professionals actively job-hunting. Exclusive search is built to reach the other 80% as well.  

That's why branded advertising is a core stage of our process. We put your employer brand, your culture, your values, and your proposition front and centre of our network of thousands of passive candidates.  

Across our own campaigns, we've seen branded adverts generate up to 4x the response rate of anonymised ones. A brand people can research and connect with outperforms an anonymous ad every time, and it means the people who come forward already understand what they're signing up for. 

You Get a Video of Every Shortlisted Candidate 

So instead of handing you a stack of nicely formatted CVs, we bring every shortlisted candidate to life with a recorded video interview, real questions, real answers, roughly five minutes per candidate. You can see and hear each person, compare them side by side, and walk into first-round interviews already knowing who you want to spend more time with. 

For our clients, this means a faster, more confident decision-making process.  

End-to-End Support, Managed by Your Recruiter 

An exclusive search isn't just paying for your next top hire, it's paying for the experience of getting there. Your recruiter manages every stage of the timeline: keeping every candidate and every stakeholder updated, chasing what needs chasing, and handling the day-to-day so you don't have to. 

Recruitment should be a straightforward, well-run process for everyone involved. As a hiring manager you should be excited about the prospect of hiring! With an exclusive search, you get a first-class service from first briefing through to final offer, with a single point of accountability the whole way through. 

When should you opt for exclusive search?  

If you have a straightforward hire and finding the very best people is not difficult, then a traditional recruitment process will work. However, if you have any of the following  

* Time pressure.  

* Location restrictions.  

* Skills shortage.  

* Business-critical hire 

* A failed search already  

* Confidentiality  

* Multiple stakeholders to align  

* A brand candidates don't yet know 

You should be opting for the most effective solution.  

Thinking About an Exclusive Search? 

If you've got a role that's too important to leave to chance, an exclusive search gives you our full focus, our full network, and a process built to find the right person, not just an available one. 

Get in touch to find out how we can help. 

Contact Kerry

Email: kmcfarlane@weareninetwnety.com

Mobile: 07385666708