Clarify your direction
Discuss your experience, motivations, preferred responsibilities, location needs, and practical considerations.
For candidates
Explore potential employers.
Control your introductions.
Discreet career representation for professionals exploring potential employers worldwide. Define your target markets, relocation preferences, and work authorization needs before outreach begins.
The candidate mandate
Decide who to approach
and what to share.
A career move can begin before a public job search. Candidate representation starts by defining your target roles, identifying relevant employers, and agreeing which organizations may be approached.
Choose the roles and markets to explore
Research relevant organizations and agree the types of employers and opportunities worth exploring.
Plan the introduction
Develop a focused professional summary and agree how potential employers may be approached.
Contact approved employers privately
Contact agreed organizations discreetly. Share identifying information or your CV only with your permission.
Your information. Your decision.
Confidentiality is part
of the process.
Agree the boundaries.
Identify organizations that must not be approached, including your current employer and any sensitive relationships.
Approve introductions.
An initial approach can use a nonidentifying summary. Your identity is disclosed only after permission.
Understand the scope.
Research and outreach do not guarantee a vacancy, interview, offer, or placement. Any engagement has clear deliverables.
Two distinct relationships
How career representation
works with employer searches.
Applying for an employer commissioned role is free. Optional career representation is a separate service, with any scope and fees agreed in writing before work starts and subject to applicable requirements.
If an opportunity creates a potential conflict between an employer mandate and candidate representation, that conflict must be addressed before proceeding.
Can you guarantee that I will find a job?
No. The engagement defines research and outreach deliverables. Hiring decisions remain with employers.
Can you contact my current employer?
Your current employer is excluded from proactive approaches unless you expressly authorize otherwise. Any additional exclusions are agreed at the outset.
Should I send my CV in the first message?
Start with a brief introduction. The required information and its intended use are discussed before further documents are requested.
Are there current advertised vacancies?
No vacancies are currently published on this website. You can enquire about the practice and career representation without applying to a specific position.
What you can agree up front
Know how you will be represented.
Review the scope and any fee in writing before choosing whether to engage the firm.
A target list you approve
Agree the roles and organizations to explore, plus any employers and contacts to exclude.
Agreed wording for outreach
Review how your experience will be described and decide when your name or CV can be shared.
Activity and next steps
Agree what updates cover and when to expect them. Discuss any overlap with an employer assignment before authorizing outreach to that employer.
Contact Private Mandate Search
A new chapter starts
with a private conversation.
Tell us what you would like to explore. This enquiry is for optional career representation. Applying for an employer commissioned vacancy is free.