OUR SEARCH PROCESS

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Our clients make better-informed decisions about superior candidates in a shorter period of time.

CFO Executive Search

We partner with our clients to establish and clarify their immediate challenges and strategies, as well as short and longer-term corporate goals. We collaborate with the client on establishing and prioritizing the professional skills and experience required to meet the challenges and accomplish those goals. We develop a candidate profile that precisely matches your company’s needs in a senior financial executive now and into the future.

Our conversations with the CEO and senior executive team members will also provide us with insights into the corporate culture and interpersonal team dynamics, as well as the CEO’s leadership style. These more intangible factors are crucial to determining the compatibility of the CFO and their ability to enhance the executive team’s performance and contribute to their full potential.

Equipped with a precise candidate profile, we identify those companies where your ideal candidate is most likely to be found. We then compare the candidate profile to the financial executives at those companies and actively recruit among matching candidates.

Our Network - We utilize what we believe is the executive search industry’s most extensive proprietary network of life science CFOs and senior financial executives. These CFOs and senior financial executives represent the top financial talent in the life science sector. With long-standing personal relationships built over decades, these executives know us and trust us. This trust allows us access to candidates not available to most recruiters. We make extensive use of this network to locate the most qualified candidates.

Our candidate assessment matrix is the result of over thirty years of experience in recruiting and conducting candidate interviews and assessments of CFOs and senior financial executives for life science companies. Our proprietary process was developed through informed observation, decades of research, continuous adaptation to contemporary circumstances, and long-term follow-up studies with clients and candidates.

During our comprehensive assessment process, candidates are analyzed for cognitive ability, professional skills, relevant experience, leadership, situational judgment, energy level, work ethic, motivation, goals, personality, interpersonal skills, and their ability to perform optimally within the company’s culture and organizational dynamics.

After screening candidates, we prepare written candidate assessments for qualified candidates and provide the assessments to our clients. From these assessments and our verbal presentations, our clients make their initial selections for interviews. We coordinate and assist in the subsequent interviews, and provide feedback and observations at every step of the interview process.

When the client expresses interest in a candidate, we conduct meticulous reference and employment history checks. We have decades of experience skillfully interviewing former employers and coworkers and assessing the nuances of the information they provide. We then develop in-depth reports for our clients.

Once our client makes a selection, we assist them in establishing a compensation package that will motivate the candidate and meet the client’s needs. Our past clients have found our expertise in negotiating compensation contracts invaluable in containing costs and avoiding animus.

After a candidate accepts our client's offer, we will assist the candidate in resigning from their previous position. This can be a precarious time, as top financial talent is valuable, and frequently the previous employer will make counteroffers and appeals to the candidate’s loyalty. We counter these issues and reaffirm the candidate’s decision.

When the candidate assumes their new position, we maintain frequent periodic contact with the candidate for 180 days. We assure a smooth transition and facilitate the communication of any potential concerns before they develop into problems.