Executive Search

Helping companies attract top class leaders

While many positions in your company can be filled through internal recruitment, there are good reasons for collaborating with an Executive Search firm for your most important and most senior hires:

• Get unbiased support when in need of a truly great executive for a key position.
• Future-proof your C-suite, increase strategic advantage and diversity.
• The best people are rarely looking for a job.
• When there is a lack of suitable internal candidates, do not settle for second-best.
• Avoid unrest when replacing an executive who is still in role.
• When time is of the essence, executive search ensures an expedient placement.
• When a rigorous and transparent procedure is required, look for support to establish clear process management.
• When you want to ensure that the market of available candidates is thoroughly and as comprehensively as possible mapped.

Outstanding executives drive excellent business performance while bad hires can lead to inefficiencies, cause internal conflicts, limit potential growth, and often turn out to a costly mistake.

We accompany clients throughout the entire process, even beyond the hiring decision. This includes:

• Briefing: We invest substantial time in understanding our clients and thoroughly conducting a needs assessment.
• Identification: Beyond our exclusive database, we build on a top-level global network and systematic research. Candidates are always approached personally by our consultants.
• Evaluation: We believe evaluation is the core aspect of executive search and hence apply a detailed assessment of candidates based on our comprehensive leadership competency model, as well as psychometric testing.
• Client presentation: We attend the presentation of candidates to our clients and accompany both sides as a thought partner across the entire process, supporting them in decision making and contract negotiation.
• Onboarding & Integration: We believe that supporting the client and the new executive in the critical first weeks and months is a crucial factor for success. Our active integration support focuses on the needs of both parties.

What differentiates good from great executive search projects?

At AvS Advisors we are convinced that our approach and how we work as a team drives the success of an Executive Search project. This has led to key guiding principles:

• In our search assignments, we guarantee a successful placement and work until this is achieved.
• Our responsibility to clients and candidates continues after the hiring: active Onboarding & Integration are integral parts of our search process.
• Candidates are treated with respect and confidentiality, and are kept informed.
• Candidates placed by us are lifelong ‘no touch’ as long as they work for our clients.
• We have a ‘one firm’ model and ethos. All consultants work closely and collaboratively together and are devoted to achieving first-class results for our clients.
• We always work in pairs of two senior consultants.
• We deliberately limit the number of assignments each consultant works on in parallel. This delivers both quality and speed.
• Our fixed fee structure avoids conflicts of interest, ensuring the impartiality of our advice.

We offer top quality standards, seasoned consultants, and an international network. We combine this with the advantages of being an agile, specialised boutique: flexibility and speed, personal support, as well as relatively few off-limit restrictions.