The Art of Executive Search: The Difference Between Retained and Contingent Recruitment

I feel like a lot of the search consultants [music] are able to get to that level of detail about what a human likes and dislikes. Whereas [music] a a recruiter that's doing that at the mid-level or junior level doesn't really necessarily need to get at that level. It is this It's going to sound like snobbery. It is very much not about disparaging different types of recruitment, but contingent recruitment is about putting numbers on a board. I need to get a new manager for a print company. I get paid 10,000 pounds for doing that. I need to know the printer another jump. I get another 10,000 pounds for that. [music] And it's And it's a grind. Being retained We're retained executive search. We are like a law firm. We're retained. We share the client's needs and we have to understand the challenges and embrace it in a way that it's not just a we want to see a CFO. It's like, "Well, why do you want to see a CFO?" Why have you lost two CFOs in the last three years? Is there something inside the organization? Can we maybe find a better way of addressing this? [music] You might need not just a CFO, you might need a COO and a CFO to work together because the workload is too great.