Client Success
When Tatcha needed to hire seasoned marketers for their line of Japanese luxury beauty products, they came to us. We recruited their Senior Director of Product Marketing and Director or Retail Marketing.
Get a perfect, personalized match for your next permanent hire.
Direct Hire is our permanent placement offering that provides a consultative approach and high-touch service for important roles and strategic hires.
Benefits of Direct Hire
- Find exactly the right talent when you have a critical role to fill in marketing, creative, or experience design.
- Attract top performers who are currently working but open to the right opportunity.
- Work with a Direct Hire Consultant who brings industry expertise, deep connections, and close collaboration to the process.
Here’s how we work together.
- Create search brief
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Your Direct Hire Consultant works closely with you to develop an extensive search brief outlining the role and skills you require.
- Recruit and vet
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Your Consultant identifies talent for your unique needs and vets them through video interviews, portfolio reviews, and skills assessments. They present the top 3-5 candidates to you.
- Interview candidates
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A half-day interview session allows you to interview candidates back to back and work with your consultant to compare, contrast, and determine finalists.
- Extend offer and close
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Having worked extensively to pre-close talent, including compensation expectations, your Consultant extends the offer and secures an acceptance from your chosen candidate.
- Check in post-hire
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Your consultant checks in with you and your new hire to ensure that the fit is working well on both sides.
Why partner with Aquent?
Dedicated consultants
Our Direct Hire Consultants work only on permanent hiring and are dedicated to a limited number of positions at once so they can give you the time and attention you need.
Top-tier talent
Direct Hire Consultants draw from the Aquent global talent network to help you reach talent you couldn’t access yourself. This includes those superstars who aren’t looking but are open to the right opportunity.
Collaborative partnerships
Consultants deeply understand recruiting in marketing, creative, and experience design, adding value at every step. Collaborating closely with you, they’ll guide you through the process of finding your next great hire.
Our work is bigger than us.
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