Executive search recruitment for the leaders your organisation can't afford to hire wrong.
Senior and executive-level hires carry more risk than any other. Scout Talent’s executive search services combine proactive headhunting, market diagnostics, and structured candidate assessment to find the right person for your most critical roles – with full transparency throughout, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional recruitment agencies.
Trusted by 1,100+ clients
The longer a senior role sits open, the more it costs. And the wrong hire at that level costs even more.
Most approaches to executive hiring rely on the same tools used for every other role – job boards, a LinkedIn post, and the assumption that the right candidate will eventually appear. For senior and executive-level positions, that assumption fails more often than it works. The people most likely to succeed in your organisation are already employed, performing well, and not looking for a job they never saw advertised.
A proactive executive search process built around headhunting, market intelligence, and structured assessment finds those people.
Waiting for them to find you doesn’t.
Why organisations are moving away from traditional recruitment agencies for executive roles.
Traditional recruitment agency
- Charges 15-25% of the executive’s salary –
often $20,000 to $60,000 per hire - You see 2-3 candidates they choose to present.
The rest of the pool stays with them. - No visibility into the search process
until a shortlist arrives - Candidate pool belongs to the agency, not you
- Incentivised to fill the role fast, not necessarily right
Scout Talent Executive Search
- Flat engagement fee – significantly less than a
percentage-based agency model - Full access to every candidate sourced
through out the engagement - Weekly visibility into search activity,
market data, and pipeline progressl - Every candidate sourced stays in your
talent pool, yours to keep - Incentivised to find the right person,
with your team involved throughout
Four things that make Scout Talent's executive search recruitment different.
From brief to shortlist in three steps.
We learn the role and the organisation
Before we source a single candidate, we invest time understanding what success looks like in this position - the technical requirements, the leadership style, the cultural fit, and the market conditions that will shape your search.
We do the looking for you
Our recruiters headhunt directly, run targeted advertising across leading job boards, and engage passive candidates through specialist networks. You receive weekly updates on search activity, pipeline progress, and market intelligence throughout.
You receive a pipeline ready to assess
We deliver qualified candidates with everything your team needs to evaluate them - profiles, assessments, and context on each person. You stay in control of the final decision, and we handle everything that gets you there.
20
Years of recruitment expertise
1,100+
Satisfied clients
35
Days average time to hire
How Marine Rescue NSW filled a critical role with no room for the wrong hire.
When Marine Rescue NSW needed to fill a highly specialised role, there was no margin for error. With no probation period, the successful candidate had to be fully capable from day one. Scout Talent ran an in-depth campaign process, using a structured rating system to rigorously assess every candidate against the role requirements and surface the right person with confidence.
Every recruitment campaign comes with 12 months of :Recruit Essentials, free.
When your campaign is complete, the hiring doesn’t stop. Every Scout Talent recruitment campaign includes 12 months of :Recruit Essentials – our recruitment software platform – so you can manage future roles, maintain your talent pool, and keep your recruitment process running between campaigns, at no extra cost.
What organisations ask before starting an executive search recruitment engagement.
How is this different from using a recruitment agency?
Scout Talent approaches executive search and recruitment differently – charging a flat engagement fee rather than a percentage of salary, giving you full visibility into every candidate sourced, and keeping you involved throughout. The candidate pool is yours to keep at the end of the engagement, with no additional fees. Traditional agencies typically charge 15-25% of the placed candidate’s salary and control the process from start to finish.
Do you have experience recruiting for our type of role?
Our recruiters have run executive search recruitment engagements across a wide range of industries and leadership functions – from CEO, CFO, and COO roles to functional heads and specialist executive positions. The strength of our process is that it’s built around understanding your organisation and your market, not just matching job titles.
What if we don't find the right candidate?
Our historical fill rate across all engagements is 90-93%. Before the search begins, our market diagnostics give you a realistic picture of candidate availability and salary expectations so your engagement is set up for success from day one.
Can we hire more than one person from a single engagement?
Yes. Every candidate sourced through your engagement stays in your talent pool. If the search surfaces multiple suitable candidates and you want to hire more than one, there are no additional sourcing fees.
Other ways Scout Talent can support your hiring.
Recruitment Campaign Service
For any role where you need expert sourcing and a screened shortlist delivered, our recruitment campaign service runs the full process for a flat fee.
Targeted Recruitment Service
For specialist and hard-to-fill roles where the right candidate is unlikely to apply, our targeted recruitment service proactively headhunts and builds a pipeline on your behalf.
Volume Hiring Solutions
When you have multiple roles to fill at once, our volume hiring service scales your search to meet the demand without scaling the cost.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
For organisations with ongoing hiring needs, RPO gives you a dedicated recruitment function without the overhead of building one in-house.
Better hiring starts with finding the right leader.
Find out how Scout Talent’s executive recruitment services can take the search off your plate and put the
right person in your most important role.
