Unblocking a critical hire starts with reading the market.
Not with more effort, but with better data. Data-Driven HR Research & Advisory, Geneva, across Switzerland and internationally.
An independent search firm, not a staffing agency. For the appointments that are difficult, sensitive or decisive.
Before you launch the search, challenge it.
Paste a job description. In under a minute, SearchCheck returns a structure index out of 100, the three frictions that will make the search harder than it needs to be, and the question to put to the hiring team before publishing. No market data, no form: the text is enough.
The map exists to find someone.
Executive & Specialist Search
Direct search for executives, senior professionals and hard-to-find specialists. One mandate, one point of contact.
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An independent diagnosis of a search that has stalled or stayed open too long.
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Mapping, compensation, availability, competition: what you need to know before you decide.
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An independent assessment of your recruitment process, from the approach to the market through to the final decision.
Read more Is your process slowing your hiring down?Finding people is only part of the problem.
A role can stay empty for the wrong reasons.
A mispositioned role, off-market pay, a scope that’s too wide.
Decisions get made without seeing the market.
Who exists, where, and at what price.
The process itself loses candidates.
Too many rounds, slow replies, decision-makers who don’t agree.
Four sectors, worked in depth.
Depth is more credible than breadth.
Critical Technologies
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure & cloud
- Data & AI
- Technology leadership and hard-to-find specialists
Boutique size. Institutional standards.
- IDirect involvement.The partner who takes the brief runs the search to the end.
- IIIndependence.No bench to place. Sometimes our advice is: don’t open this search yet.
- IIIClose to the market.Four sectors, from Geneva, across Switzerland and internationally. We know who matters before a mandate exists.
- IVConfidentiality.No advertising. No candidate is presented without their consent.
Tell us where you are. We tell you where to start.
A role your team depends on. A narrow pool. People who are not looking.
ExamplePrivate banking, Geneva: Head of Database Administration, unadvertised role. Map of the banking and technology pool, name-by-name direct approach, short shortlist.
Confidential · No commitment · Reply within 24 hoursOpen for months. Candidates declining or withdrawing. Nobody can say what is blocking it.
ExampleThe blockage almost always sits in one of these areas: compensation out of line with the market, unrealistic requirements, a proposition too weak, a strategy that never reaches the right people, a process that loses candidates. A diagnostic ranks them.
Confidential · No commitment · Reply within 24 hoursCreating a role, reviewing a pay structure, retaining a key person. With no reliable view of what the market offers.
ExampleCybersecurity in Switzerland: a Security Specialist earns CHF 129,000 to 184,000 in Geneva, against 124,000 to 177,000 in Zurich. What the gap says, and what it does not, is in our market note.
Confidential · No commitment · Reply within 24 hoursHires that take too long. Candidates lost between two stages. Decision-makers who do not agree.
ExampleThe end-to-end flow, interviews, candidate journey, stakeholder alignment: findings, breaking points, prioritised plan, follow-up at three months.
Confidential · No commitment · Reply within 24 hoursA critical search. A difficult market. A decision to make.
You don’t need a finished brief to write to us. A few lines on the situation are enough; we reply personally, and we tell you whether we can help.
Confidential · No commitment · Reply within 24 hours