For businesses

The seat has been open since March.

Every week it stays open costs you more than the fee to fill it. We work one industry, we already know your model, and we start on day one.

CURRENTLY MOVING

People we could introduce this week. No profiles published — tell us the seat and we'll tell you who fits.

Brokerage · trading · payments · financial services Nine regions · 200 roles in twelve months · one industry
The number nobody works out

An empty seat is already expensive.

Firms weigh a placement fee carefully and never price the vacancy it replaces. Set the three things you already know.

$120,000
12 WEEKS
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Estimated cost of the vacancy so far
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Per week it stays open
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Next four weeks, if nothing changes
Vacancy cost vs a typical fee

Rough arithmetic on your own inputs, not a quote or a forecast. It's here to make a number visible, not to be precise — the real figure depends on your desk, your targets and who's covering.

How a search runs

Four steps. No briefing week.

Most searches lose a fortnight to explaining the business. We start at step two.

STEP ONE

Describe the problem, not the job spec

What the seat has to deliver, who it reports to, why the last person left. Two minutes is enough to begin.

STEP TWO

A straight read, before you spend anything

Fillable at that package, in that region, on that timeline — or not. Sometimes the answer is that no hire fixes it.

STEP THREE

We call people who already know us

Not a job board, not a cold list. Mostly employed, none of them applying to anything.

STEP FOUR

Three names, with the reasoning

Why each fits and what the risk is. We stay in it through offer and start date, where searches usually fall over.

Before you send anything

We're not right for everyone.

Saying so up front saves us both a call.

WORTH A CONVERSATION
  • Brokerage, trading, payments, or a firm serving them
  • A senior or specialist seat that matters commercially
  • Opening a region you haven't operated in before
  • A role two other agencies have already failed on
  • You suspect the problem might not be the hire
PROBABLY NOT US
  • Volume hiring — twenty of the same seat
  • Industries outside trading and financial services
  • Junior roles a job advert would fill just as well
  • A search already running with four other agencies
  • You want CVs by Friday and nothing else
How we charge

Stated openly, which is rare enough.

ModelHow it worksWhen you pay
ContingentA percentage of first-year package. Suits one seat you're also covering elsewhere.On start date
RetainedExclusive. Our full attention, because we aren't racing three firms for free.Engagement · shortlist · start
EmbeddedSeveral seats or a region being built out. Day rate or monthly fee, not a percentage per head.Monthly

No numbers here because packages differ by region and seniority. You'll have them in the first reply, not after three calls.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Anonymous, because this market is small.

Send a brief

Describe it in your own words.

Even if all you can say is “solve my sales problem.” You'll get a reply within one working day — including if the answer is that we're not the right people.

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