Our investigative, data-driven approach is our secret sauce. It is what gives our clients a competitive advantage in technology executive recruitment. (We have ways . . . )

Our Story as Technical Recruiters

First, We Recognized a Problem

As technology headhunters and technical recruiters, we have learned from our clients.  We serve the world’s most innovative software and Internet companies in the world. As tech recruiters, we share a passion for innovation wherever things don’t work right. Executive search needs a serious upgrade.

While leadership requirements continue to evolve, the executive search industry has done little to match force with changing needs. With few exceptions, retained search firms conduct search the same way as they always have and produce the same uneven results. To this day, executive search takes too long and hits the wall far too often. On average some 40 percent of traditional retained searches fail to complete. The failure rate has been a constant for half a century. It is a big problem that has proven hard to solve.

The Problem is an Opportunity

It is a problem that deserves a solution. Every time a retained executive search fails to produce a candidate who is hired, a company is out the $100-thousand or more it spent to find the perfect candidate. But the loss doesn’t stop there.  When a key executive position languishes unfilled for 6 months or a year,  it can cost millions of dollars in lost revenues, lost time-to-market, and lost morale. When you stop to do the math, the cost of failed executive search is stunning.  Worst case, it can take a company down.

Next, We Identified the Cause

Executive search fails when you search with your eyes closed. For far too long and in far too many ways, search firms and their corporate counterparts have been searching for candidates with blindfolds on. They lack the time and expertise to leverage the treasure trove of data available in the Age of Information. As a result, most executive recruiters and search consultants can’t quite zero in on the best-of-the-best prospective candidates for the role. Consequently, they recycle high profile candidates as lesser-known (but better qualified) candidates are ignored or missed.  Searching with one’s eyes closed perpetuates the status quo and perpetuates a lack of diversity.  Recruiters reach and out tap the most obvious prospects and, more often than not, that candidate is white and male.

We Knew There Had to Be a Better Way

Yes, there is a better way. Executive Search 2.0. The next-generation of retained search is simply more evolved. The Good Search is a not a traditional retained search firm, by design.  We are committed to transforming executive search as we know it because to do less is simply not acceptable.

We know it is folly to do search the same way everyone else does and expect different results. That is why we decided to search smarter. We do it by powering every engagement with a level of expert investigative research that the recruiting industry has never seen.