EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Hire a premier Executive Search Firm in San Francisco and Silicon Valley
The Advantages of Partnering with Hager Executive Search
For many critical executive positions, utilizing an executive search firm is the most effective solution. If you’re seeking to hire an executive search firm from San Francisco or Silicon Valley, Hager Executive Search may be just the solution your organization needs. We offer high-touch client services designed to assist companies to find and retain the top executive talent in their industry.
"Hager Executive Search is different. From the first phone call, I discovered that Hager Executive Search is about truly understanding their clients' needs and bringing the right parties together to create win-win relationships. Hager's search executives are strategic thinkers that take a personal interest in their clients' objectives, gaining a complete understanding of their need and of an individual's talent, thus saving their customers time and money in the process. They are a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend their services.”- SVP Sales and Marketing for Experiential Marketing Firm
What is Hager's impact on your organization?
Hager combines Management Consulting and Executive Search with our clients seeing us as strategic advisors first, and executive search consultants second. Hager understands each client’s DNA and crafts a customized strategy for each executive search, conducting extensive research resulting in the best competitive executive talent map available for each client partner. Our solution is proactive, not reactive. It's about understanding your industry, your company, and your brand, then setting out to find and attract the best fit. Our impact is solving each client partner’s unique challenge and finding the executive talent who is equally passionate and committed to solving that challenge.
"I whole-heartedly recommend Hager Executive Search...While heading Talent Acquisition at a leading digital marketing firm, Hager Executive Search repeatedly found some of the most talented executives we've ever come across." - Chief Talent Officer at Leading Digital Marketing Firm
Hager's Passive Talent Sourcing
Why is passive talent sourcing important? Because research has shown that a sourced candidate is 4-5x more likely to be hired than an inbound candidate. Meaning any solid talent acquisition strategy should include passive talent sourcing. For this reason, Hager Executive Search focuses almost exclusively on sourcing passive talent for our client partners.
We tell your Company's Brand Story
Only 24% of SMBs have a formalized EVP or employee value proposition. Which is a challenge because 75% of talent consider employer brand / EVP as a key component of their interest in an executive opportunity. That’s where we come in. At Hager Executive Search, we help craft our client partner’s brand stories as part of our retained executive search methodology. Each executive talent on the talent map receives a customized outreach that speaks specifically to why your opportunity is a great next step for their career. Hager understands that to compel a positive move, the opportunity needs to be impactful to an executive talent’s career journey. Many talented executives thank Hager for bringing such great opportunities to their attention. Had we not, they would never have been aware of such game changing executive opportunities to advance their career.
Retained Search Methodology
Our Retained Search methodology is predicated on comprehensive research of the executive talent community to find the best fit for our clients. This research encompasses everything from a thorough examination of our clients' competitors, deep data analysis, digital footprints of online content, and marketing analysis. Hager utilizes the latest artificial intelligence tools to assemble the shortlist of executive candidates faster. AI offers an array of tools to help research talent, but without Human Intelligence to analyze the results, your talent map may steer you in the wrong direction. Hager can find the executive talent you need and expedite the time to hire.
Our Retained Search solutions are not based on pre-conceived ideas, nor are they formula-driven. Rather, each of our searches receives a deep level of consideration - thoughtful integration of programmatic knowledge, cultural concerns and more, along with creative design thinking. Hager's methodology is tested and adaptable; we serve as 'opportunity marketers' to the best executive talent and our approach enhances and preserves our clients' employer brand.
Authenticity and Ethics
When engaging with the executive talent community, Hager provides every executive candidate with thorough information about our client partners to facilitate their best decision about their career move. Our goal is to not only find the right fit for our clients, but the best fit for that candidate so they remain with our client partners and perform at a high level over an extended duration of time.
- Listen and learn; understand your organization’s goals, values and culture
- Understand the basic parameters for the position, including the role beyond the job description
- Effectively quantify the responsibilities of the position and gain insight into how the role fulfills the needs of your organization and gets you to your goals
- Gain understanding of the current status of the executive search including challenges
- Ascertain needs of your organization as it pertains to the executive position
- Understand your culture and what determines “fit” and “add”
- Determine how the executive position interfaces within your organization
- Set + manage realistic expectations
- Reach consensus with all members of your executive hiring team
- Remain in continual contact with key stakeholders to ascertain if role and needs of your organization have evolved
- Author a compelling and succinct ideal executive candidate profile to assist in the search for and attraction of the right talent
- Understand your competitive position in the marketplace and craft customized strategy
- Conduct extensive research, market analysis, and investigate digital footprints to design the competitive executive talent map
- Creation / design of a talent marketing outreach campaign
- Utilize extensive experience and executive level understanding of role to focus on top tier executive talent
- Talent positioning, sourcing with focus on passive and passive-active executive talent
- Outreach, communication of your brand story via execution of talent marketing outreach that conveys to the executive talent community the challenge and impact that their unique executive skill set can bring to the client company and how this executive role can be the next step in their executive career
- Conduct extensive interviews to establish short list, ascertain talent acumen and acuity with regard to solving your organization’s challenges
- Present short list of candidates to hiring team for consideration
- Gathering of feedback and continual communication with both hiring team and short list talent
- Decide on optimal talent
- Liaise between your organization and talent to negotiate offer, salary and start date
- Assist with new hire on-boarding process
- Status at 30, 60 and 90 days