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ESS Retained Executive Search, based in Santa Monica, California, was initially founded in 1994 as a consultancy to many of the world's top retained search firms.  ESS was confidentially retained by these firms to take over important executive search assignments in completely new practice sectors, and others that could not be successfully completed using their conventional retained search methodologies. ESS developed a new enhanced recruiting approach based on marketing principles and technological advances to successfully complete these demanding executive search projects. This experience is the foundation of the ESS Retained Search practice and exec.nu...

Much more than a simple database or ineffectual commercial contact manager, the ESS custom programmed software suite manages the entire recruiting process and is the key to ESS enhanced search services.

ESS software was developed exclusively for retained search. This proven system is based on hundreds of successfully completed executive search assignments which has been improved to integrate input from the ESS Talent Pool and exec.nu web postings.

Using the leverage of custom programming based on years of experience, the software expands the limits of the retained recruiter's activities while maintaining focus on the search objective.

Effectiveness is increased by a factor of three or more in every measurable category ( research utilization, completion time frame, comprehensive sector coverage, placement optimization ) when this system is applied to a retained executive search project.

ESS has the only software suite of this type in use in retained search today. The major retained firms have literally spent years and millions of dollars trying to develop front office production software of this type without success.

Firms using inefficient commercial software or simple look up databases can't approach the level of project detail or completion time frames that ESS attains on every assignment.

The exec.nu Talent Pool is the most confidential recruiting strategy on the internet. Surveys indicate that the number one concern of top executive talent using the web is confidentiality. ESS one has addressed this issue with the level of concern demanded by the top 10% of executive talent.

Case Study

"ESS - could be the best recruiter in the country"

-satisfied ESS consulting client with over 30 years in retained search.

This retained search firm called ESS in to take over an important high level search that had been underway for a major international engineering and construction firm with no success for over twenty-two months.

ESS reconstructed the assignment using its special research and production methods and a group of eminent executive candidates were identified and recruited in less than thirty days.

The ESS candidate selected by the client was deemed so exceptional he was offered a choice of positions and was ultimately appointed to an executive position two levels above the initial position specification.

This is an example of the type of special assignments ESS has undertaken for confidential clients in the retained search sector since 1994. The same methods, techniques and technologies implemented in this case study are applied to every search for every ESS client.