Your next hire is not looking for a new job, they are doing something amazing at another company.

For many companies, executive search has changed very little over the last several decades: a skill profile is developed, a database is searched, candidates are presented and interviews take place.  It's expected you'll hire from their initial short list.  While fine for traditional industries, the inflexibility of this model doesn't always work for dynamic companies who need an adaptable search partner who can flex with them as they learn and grow.  We know what it takes for ambitious people and companies to succeed. It's more than having been in the right roles in the best companies.  Leadership style, motivation, cultural affinity and stage appropriate experience, all factor into a new hire's success.  And we employ modern collaboration tools that allow our clients full transparency into our work and real-time visibility into the talent pool. 

Prowess Search Partners offer an agile approach to executive search; one that rejects the traditional agency model and has our clients working alongside deeply experienced search consultants, not junior associates.  We will not only help hire your next leader, but will help you hire better, period.

We offer a variety of services to help companies looking to hire leaders and improve overall hiring acumen.

Retained Search

We work closely with your team to develop a deep understanding of your operating environment, culture, leadership team, and the skills and attributes necessary to lead your company or a major organization within it.  We help you evaluate, develop and test your employment value proposition, ensuring that your message truly resonates with your target candidate. In fact, throughout our process, we will provide you with talent market feedback and advise you on crafting the role, team structure and offer that will attract and motivate the talent who will be successful in your company. Sure, we reach into our networks, developed over decades, but we also conduct exhaustive new research to explore all potential pools and identify the best passive talent in the market.  After presenting qualified and interested candidates for your opening, we will employ an agile approach to the interview process, helping your team refine its interviewing methodology including enhancing talent assessment and selling acumen.

Talent Market Analysis

The best talent has always been in high demand. And the companies that invest in understanding the holistic talent marketplace have a significantly clearer view of the landscape than those who don’t. We work with you to understand all the critical factors in a hire, develop a comprehensive needs analysis and then conduct extensive talent market research, including hunting in sectors you wouldn't necessarily think to look. We provide your leadership and human resources teams with data that will allow them to conductive an effective search with a shorter timeline and more focused resources.

Talent Practice Advisory

We’ve worked in some of the most respected staffing organizations around, as well as some of the scrappiest and most innovative start-ups.  Oftentimes, we find that companies struggle to hire the best talent because of deeply engrained practices that have produced results in the past, but are no longer effective. We bring an expert, outsider view to your organization and work as an extension of your team to map, review and assess your talent acquisition practices and develop solutions to help you evolve your approach to talent engagement, interviewing, closing and on-boarding new talent.  For startups, we can help you craft agile and rigorous processes that don't weigh you down but ensure the appropriate investment in hiring process.