A six-month maternity cover that the client hired permanently
They needed someone in a seat in under two weeks. What they got back was a person they made an offer to before the cover period ended.
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What the brief was, what made the seat hard to fill, and how the hire came together, from the first call to the first day.
They needed someone in a seat in under two weeks. What they got back was a person they made an offer to before the cover period ended.
The incumbent did not know she was being replaced, and eighty people reported into her function. A public job posting was never an option.
Two agencies had been on this search for four months. The problem was not the market — it was that the job description described two different jobs.
Because we do not publish our clients’ hiring problems with their name attached. A company that has had a controller seat empty for four months does not want that on a search result, and a candidate who moved quietly does not want their old employer reading about it. If you want references, ask on the call and we will arrange them properly.