Building your team is harder than building your client base.

Recruitment and executive search firms spend their time finding people for clients. Hiring for their own business is a different challenge entirely.

Built around finding the right person

Ours is a candidate-short industry. For a critical hire, you need a partner who commits to the search.

Sarah knows this firsthand. She spent years hiring for her own teams across Asia and the Middle East as MD of one of the world's largest recruitment firms.

A search process designed to reach and engage the best available talent for your role, and to give you an outcome you can be confident in.

How we work together

Engagements are tailored to the hiring challenge. Most fall into one of these areas:

Retained Search

A dedicated search for a senior or business-critical hire. Covers full market mapping, professional headhunting, and a committed shortlist delivered with assessment and context.

Executive Search

For managing director, C-suite and board-level appointments. Includes candidate profiling, formal assessment, and in-depth referencing in addition to the search process.

Talent Subscription

A recurring engagement for firms with ongoing or volume hiring needs. Functions as a fractional hiring resource, with consistent candidate pipelining across roles and divisions over a defined period.

Advisory and Market Intelligence

Early-stage support for firms planning a hire or entering a new market. Covers market mapping, compensation benchmarking, and candidate availability, as a standalone exercise or prior to a formal search. Outrecruit has also supported investor-led searches, including identifying acquisition targets and founder talent within the recruitment sector.

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What to expect

Searches are run with full market coverage and professional headhunting. Candidates on the shortlist are exclusively represented for your opportunity, fully informed about the role and engaged with your firm on its own merits.

The result is a hiring decision made with confidence, because the market was covered and the right person was found.

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Tokyo office building — recruitment market Asia

Recent assignments

Middle East

Technology and Digital Director

A global listed firm specialising in leadership hiring was entering the Middle East and needed a director for its technology and digital practice. The role required local market experience, senior-level hiring capability, and an existing client base — a profile in short supply in the region. A full market map identified 68 relevant prospects. Six were shortlisted and presented for interview. The appointed candidate came from a core target competitor with twelve years of in-region experience.

Middle East

Senior international hires, built environment

A specialist firm working across the built environment wanted to bring in senior international talent with major project experience — people who were not yet in the region. The search covered the UK, Europe, APAC and North America. From a shortlist of eight candidates, two were appointed — one relocating from Japan, one from Germany. Both engaged exclusively with this client, removing the risk of competing offers or salary escalation from multiple agency involvement.

Japan

Director-level appointment, consumer recruitment

A newly founded consumer recruitment boutique in Japan wanted to ensure it was considering every credible director-level candidate in the market before making its early-stage leadership appointments. A structured search was run across the consumer recruitment landscape in Japan. Eight candidates were shortlisted, six interviewed, one appointed — with two further potential hires identified for later consideration as the business grows.

Ready to discuss a search?

If you have a hiring challenge worth talking through, get in touch.

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