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Retained Search

A screening methoddesigned for high performers.

When hiring executive leaders or highly specialized professionals, success requires more than access to candidates. It demands a strategic search process built on research, confidentiality, and partnership.

The partnership

Retained Search is a dedicated executive recruitment partnership where MGMTGlobal manages every stage of the hiring process exclusively on your behalf.

We invest significant time in understanding your business, leadership culture, and long-term objectives before identifying and engaging exceptional talent.

Unlike transactional recruiting, retained search prioritizes quality, discretion, and long-term success.

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A search, start to finish
  1. 01
    Brief
    Your company, your culture, what success looks like.
  2. 02
    Market
    Quiet outreach — to people looking or not.
  3. 03
    Shortlist
    Three or four finalists, fully evaluated.
  4. 04
    Close
    Interviews, negotiation, the signature.

When to choose retained search

  • Executive leadership
  • C-suite positions
  • Regional leadership
  • Practice leaders
  • Specialized technical roles
  • Business development executives
  • Highly confidential searches

Why clients choose it

  • Exclusive search partnership
  • Dedicated consulting team
  • Confidential recruitment process
  • Comprehensive market research
  • Higher quality candidate pool
  • Long-term hiring success
How it works · Retained search in four steps

A search process youcan actually follow.

Step 01

We learn your business.

Before we look at a single candidate, we understand your company, your culture, and what success in this role really looks like.

Step 02

We go to the market, quietly.

We tap our network and 25-year database to find high performers — looking or not — and approach them with discretion.

Step 03

We hand you a shortlist, not a pile.

Three or four finalists, fully evaluated on track record, fit, and ambition.

Step 04

We stay in it to the close.

We help structure interviews, negotiate, and bring the right person across the line.

A hire too importantto leave to chance.

Thirty minutes, and you talk directly with our team.

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