Strategic Introductions

Is your company mounting an executive search? Check with me first.

If you’re a client of mine, I can shorten the cost and duration of your company’s executive search by comparing your open leadership position to my own 25-plus-year, 2,300+ leadership network.

I can also reach beyond my own network of peer boutiques.

• Turnaround: Give me 3-5 days, and I’ll see if I have a potential candidate, including mutual permission to make the introduction.

• Cost: If your company hires the candidate I introduce, your company pays my firm 5%, representing significant savings when compared to a traditional search.

Compare that to a multi-month search and “30% of the first-year salary” paid to search firms like Korn Ferry, Heidrick & Struggles, Spencer Stuart, Russell Reynolds, Boyden, and you have unparalleled time and cost savings.

Why?

I limit Strategic Introductions to my private clients. Since both parties are clients of mine, I know their technical skills, motivations, and goals, not to mention whether I believe there’s a match.

If I can’t make a match, you’ve lost only 3-5 days

Compare traditional executive search with my Strategic Introductions:

It takes me just 3 to 5 business days to review your spec and determine whether I can introduce a viable candidate or two to your company.

In doing so, I can save your company tens-of-thousands of dollars because my fee is far less than a search firm’s fee.

Why? Because I’m not actively recruiting. I’m not conducting a search. I’m digging deep into my own network and it’s not nearly as much work for me as it is for a search firm.

Also, 80-85% of my clients aren’t immediately or actively looking for a job. Instead, they’ve reached an inflection point in their own professional lives and they’ve committed to taking stock of who they’ve become and where they want to go.

They’re effectively happy where they are, but open to considering the right opportunity if it comes along.

That brings a unique level of nuance to the matchmaking process.

• Candidates I identify are successful. They’re already at the top of their game, which fulfills the “proven track record” requirement.

• They’ve invested in their long-term work-life happiness, which means they know what they want and don’t want. That’s powerful for a company—if a placement happens—because they’ve become as strategic about their professional lives as they are about the companies for which they work.

• Pair all of that with instincts I was recognized for in executive search—the same instincts that today let me peer around the corners of my clients’ professional lives to ask questions that get to the heart of various matters—and you have a unique composite of skills, experience, and connection that rival the biggest search firms.

Terms Overview (reach out for detailed agreement):

• You must be a past client of The Redick Group (aka, The Résumé Studio) in order to participate.

• You will only be presented with other past clients.

• Introductions will be made only through the mutual agreement of both parties.

• You and/or your company will solely handle all recruiting and hiring matters (e.g., interviewing, vetting, organizing, reference checking). The Redick Group is simply making an introduction.

• Upon hire, your company will pay The Redick Group five percent of the first year salary for the position in question.

• You pay The Redick Group only if your company hires a candidate introduced by The Redick Group.

• You may not engage The Redick Group for a Strategic Introduction if your company is currently under contract with a retained executive search firm.

• You may be able to engage The Redick Group if you are currently under a non-exclusive contract with a contingency search firm or recruiting agency. Check any terms you may have signed.

• If a candidate presented by The Redick Group is hired and later terminated or leaves your company for any reason, there is no refund.

• The Strategic Introductions offering is not a recruiting program. It is simply an introduction that may result in a match.