We deliver to you only those candidates who will best achieve your organizational objectives.

Steele's Rigorous Search Process

Understand

We begin with the end in mind. We cannot stress enough the importance of this. From the very first conversation, we pay careful attention to learning your business and culture. We'll understand your history, style, funding, values, challenges, decision making process, etc. This learning process matures into a thorough understanding of the position and its requirements. At that point we create a profile of the education, technical expertise, personality, motivation, and breadth of vision, adaptability, managerial style, life circumstance and other characteristics required for the candidate's superior long-term performance.

Identify

We then mine our extensive contact network to identify potential candidates for each search based upon the above knowledge. Prospective candidates are located primarily through our personal research and our international network of scientific, executive and biopharmaceutical contacts. Secondarily we utilize computerized databases, information files, national web sources for articles and publications and other resources.

Introduce

Introducing the position to the highly sought after candidate is a critical phase of the search. The first contact with a high profile candidate is very difficult and must be approached in a sensitive and upbeat manner. This is the most essential and often overlooked skill that a recruiter can bring to the client company. At Steele Executive Search we present each opportunity in a professional way that will arouse interest and intrigue. This is especially important for those not currently considering a career move. SES may not be the only firm to be able to locate the talent, but we are the very best at building the mutual rapport that will draw the top talent into your company.

Evaluate

We pursue and present to you only those candidates well suited to your position and interested in considering it. We then conduct rigorous interviews and probing reference analysis on the qualified candidates that emerge. Each candidate that is introduced to you has been apprised of your needs, qualifications and financial parameters. From the first day we focus on securing the best talent for your company with no surprises. Being thorough at this stage effectively avoids the potential disappointments which can torpedo a search at the outset. We begin with the end in mind!

Close

Since we've focused on closing the candidate from the first day, the usual tensions and surprises that can cause problems at this stage simply do not exist. It is in these final stages of closing where the building blocks of trust and integrity we have created pay off for our clients with a candidate who is eager to accept an offer. Because we have positioned ourselves through the whole process to effectively mediate, facilitate, and negotiate on your behalf our transparent relationships will enable our clients to negotiate directly or with as much support and involvement by SES that is needed or desired. As a result of the continual closing process that Steele Search utilizes, when an offer is presented the odds are very high that the answer will be a resounding acceptance with both parties excited in anticipation of a long, successful career.