Professional and Executive Search

Executive search isn’t just for executives. At Cielo, we identify and recruit highly qualified candidates for senior roles in a company or organization, including the C-suite and other professionals. With Cielo as your executive and professional search partner, deep market research will help identify and secure the individual with the exact mix of skills and experience needed to achieve your business goals.

Learn how to build a successful relationship with an executive search partner.

At Cielo, we provide value above and beyond a traditional firm. Our dedicated teams of industry experts will help find the leaders you need faster, saving time and money compared to traditional third-party search firms. We connect you with the insights you need to identify impactful leadership talent, wherever they may be.

Recruiters are most often trying to fill entry and mid-level roles. They advertise roles hoping to attract candidates to apply and interview. Active job seekers then pursue the role. 

With Cielo’s Professional and Executive Search offering, we look for the ideal match of skills, competencies, mindset and experience for a role in senior leadership and niche roles. We also make sure there’s a good fit with your organization by embedding ourselves into your company’s culture and operations. This makes all the difference in finding quality executives and professional candidates that fit your needs.

Challenges to finding the visionary professionals and executives for your leadership team include:

1. High-touch engagement
2. Limited talent pools
3. Extensive coordination
4. Difficult to attract
5. Strong competition

With Cielo’s executive and professional search experts, you’ll quickly overcome these challenges. We work alongside the executive committee or hiring leader, using deep market research to identify and secure the individual with the exact mix of skills and experience to achieve your business goals. See how BD found top tech talent with Cielo’s executive and professional search support.

There are 7 key benefits:

1. Gain access to the very top professionals
2. Widen the pool of diverse candidates
3. Get objective advice from a neutral third party
4. Surface candidates quickly for faster results
5. Save time and money via cost-efficiency
6. Gain market insights from experts in your industry
7. Ensure confidentiality

There are typically 10 steps in executive and professional search:

1. Discovery: To understand the role’s responsibility and requirements as well as what’s necessary for someone to succeed in the role
2. Build a profile for success: The actual work that needs to be done and the skills needed to do it
3. Create a list of targets:  A list of companies with candidates in similar roles and similar office cultures
4. Qualify prospects: To see if select prospects are interested and meet the requirements
5. Interview prospects. We interview qualified prospects in-depth
6. Present candidates to you: Includes a report that explains a candidate’s background and assesses their strengths and weaknesses against the success profile
7. Candidate interviews by client: You narrow the list to two or three finalists
8. Verify references: We contact the candidate’s references and confirm credentials
9. Make the offer: We help you construct an attractive offer, including salary and benefits
10. End the search:  We may assist with onboarding and transitioning

We’ve reimagined executive and professional search to deliver impact at pace. Our methodology turns the opaque, costly and time-consuming business of traditional search into a transparent, tech-forward, cost-efficient service.

We’re swifter and more future-forward than other firms. From the business leaders who set your strategy to the critical professional teams and skills you need to deliver it, “time-to-talent” is the heartbeat of business – to accelerate growth, to deliver on your vision. We share insight and intelligence – something traditional search firms don’t do without bundling it with more services – to illuminate those leaders and your competitors’ strategies. Making you faster to market, to shortlist, and to unlock the potential in your business.

Cielo’s program management approach and risk methodologies take search from being mysterious to a process that’s more straightforward, more predictable, and more productive. One that gives you a full lens on talent to move your DEI agenda forward.

Our tech-forward approach means we start fast and stay fast, reaching passive candidates at scale. Transparency in our process gives you and your hiring manager real-time access to our progress.

With Cielo’s professional search experts, you’re poised to identify, engage and influence the senior talent to drive your business forward.