A no-risk-to-begin search model. We source, screen, and submit candidates at our own cost, and you pay a single fee only when someone you choose accepts the offer.
Contingency recruiting is a pay-on-hire model: you owe nothing upfront and pay one fee only when a candidate you select starts. It is built for employers who need to fill professional and individual-contributor roles quickly without committing budget before results. Our team carries the sourcing risk, runs the search through our in-house AI engine, and backs every placement with a replacement guarantee.
No retainer, no deposit, no invoice until your hire starts. The cost of the search sits with us, so starting a role with our team is a decision you can make today.
Our AI sourcing engine surfaces qualified, often passive candidates fast, and one senior team runs your search end to end. You are never handed to a 200-recruiter machine or a first-year associate.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If a hire does not work out inside the guarantee window, we run the search again at no additional fee.
Use contingency when you are filling professional or individual-contributor roles, want speed, and prefer to pay only on results. Choose retained search for senior leadership, confidential replacements, or hard-to-fill mandates that need an exclusive, dedicated, upfront-funded effort. Many of our clients start with contingency for active roles and reserve retained or executive search for critical leadership hires.
You pay nothing to start and nothing during the search. The fee is a percentage of the hire's first-year salary, agreed in advance and invoiced only when your chosen candidate accepts and starts. No hire means no fee.
If a placement leaves or does not work out within the guarantee period, we re-run the search and deliver a replacement at no additional fee. The guarantee terms are written into the agreement before we begin, so there are no surprises.
You can, but it splits attention and rarely speeds things up. When you give our team the role, you get senior recruiters focused on your search and our full AI sourcing engine behind it, rather than a partial effort competing with three other firms for the same submittals. If you want guaranteed exclusivity and deep market mapping, retained search is the better structure.
Tell us the role and we will start sourcing candidates. You pay only when you hire.