Ecosystem Partners

Most executive search firms follow a basic organizational structure that is more than a century old. But this old school model produces the worst possible results for clients. A new model is completely changing the game with teamwork and collaboration. Let’s explore how this innovative structure yields better search outcomes in a shorter time frame.

Unlike the traditional models prevalent in the industry, our approach puts your needs first, ensuring that our partners and teams are fully committed to delivering results. In this post, I’ll break down how our unique fee structure and partner compensation model drive superior outcomes for our clients.

Back-channeling is a reference technique that sparks controversy. But it is absolutely essential when you are hiring mission-critical senior executives.

When I began at Bespoke, we had a network of just 11,000 software executives. Today, that number has grown to over 610,000. We’ve indexed the industry, creating a proprietary database that covers nearly every software executive in North America. This comprehensive database allows us to take a top-down approach to search—starting with the universe of possible candidates and filtering down based on real-time data against the scorecard we develop with our clients.

You wouldn’t go to your general practitioner doctor for brain surgery. So why do some companies hire non-specialized recruiters to perform searches for mission-critical leadership roles? In fact, relying on an old-school generalist recruiter has a profound impact on the duration of a search and the quality of the outcomes.

If you are working with a generic, jack-of-all-trades recruiting firm that focuses on any industry, you are setting yourself up for slower searches with worse outcomes. Simply put, these firms don’t have the expertise to understand the sector or the clock speed to deliver at the industry’s pace.