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Container Search

Looking for the benefits of a Retained Search without the financial risk? A Container Search offers the best of both worlds.

A hybrid search service

A Container Search is a hybrid search service between two common recruitment models: contingency and retained.

 

Working exclusively, clients pay one upfront fee in order to secure our time and resources. This fee is discounted from the placement fee.

 

A Container Search is the best of Retained and Contingent search combined. You’ll receive unparalleled service under a shared-risk model. The client pays an engagement fee upfront and we guarantee a shortlist of exceptional candidates to choose from.

A hybrid search service
Building trust, reducing risk

Building trust, reducing risk

A Container Search offers a chance for that necessary trust-building to occur, while reducing the financial risk in a full retained search.

 

As clients begin to strategise and prioritise their hiring needs, they tend to move away from the more general and surface-level recruiter-client relationships and opt for a trusted partnership with a single recruiter or search firm.

 

Most container relationships will evolve into retainers as trust builds and staffing is more appropriately planned.

When to use a Container Search

The position is specialist or complex

If you require comprehensive support in hiring top marketing talent for a complex role, a container search offers the combination of value and service. The commitment enables us to build a thorough brief to ensure we are able to identify and attract the very best talent.

Your search is taking too long

If your search has been open too long and you’ve found few or no viable candidates, a Container Search may be appropriate. A container search model provides the benefits of our in-depth expertise and a guarantee that you’ll receive qualified candidates in an agreed timeframe.

You need passive candidates

Many organisations seek to hire candidates who aren’t currently active in the market. Often these high-performing individuals are the most valuable and highly sought after. If you’re struggling to access and recruit these candidates, a container search is a perfect option.

Time is precious

Direct sourcing is time consuming and often overwhelming with the number of applications. Advertising will typically just source the most active candidates, not the best for the strategically important hires.

Smarter, faster, easier

You can expect us to build a comprehensive brief, challenge thinking and bring new ideas to ensure the correct search trajectory. We’ll tailor a research-led approach to projects with an advisory and problem-solving style before fusing the latest headhunting techniques and decision science.

    • Our credibility in the market is what sets us apart
    • All our team have deep expertise in their niche
    • Our solutions are bespoke and enable smarter and faster hiring – to just make your life easier
    • We insist on meeting every client and candidate we represent
    • Uniquely, our consultants are supported by a network of acclaimed figureheads in the marketing leadership community.
Smarter, faster, easier

Trusted by the world’s leading companies

Our search model

tml specialises in engaging hard-to-find talent of the highest calibre.

21%

21%

Active

Job-hunting and easy
to find

15%

15%

Tentative

May consider a change but will only respond to a trusted adviser

 

44%

44%

Explorer

Not looking but willing to discuss opportunities with a trusted associate.

 

20%

20%

Super passive

Happily employed.
Will not move.

 

Excellent

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13 days ago

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30 days ago

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