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Everything hiring teams usually ask before working with TAP: scope, engagement models, pricing, and how we actually run a search.

Who TAP Hires For

Cross-industry management and executive hiring

TAP recruits middle management, senior management, directors, vice presidents, senior leaders and C-suite executives for companies across industries. Specialized professional and technical recruiting is a supporting capability, especially for technical roles.

No. TAP works with companies of different sizes and stages across industries, including technology, professional services, manufacturing, construction, logistics and others. Industry experience is described where it's relevant to a search, not a restriction on who TAP serves.

Yes. If you have several leadership roles open, tell us on your intake call and we'll recommend the best way to structure the work.

How We Search

Process and candidates

We clarify the role's responsibilities, business outcomes and requirements, then source and hold direct conversations with candidates. Each candidate we present comes with an assessment of strengths, gaps and motivations so you can make an informed decision.

A private website on each candidate we present, with video highlights from our interview, a rating against each requirement with the reasoning behind it, interview questions for each of your interviewers, their motivations, availability, location and relocation, compensation target, employment status and reasons for looking, readiness to complete a background check and drug screen, links to their résumé and LinkedIn, and why we recommend them. When you're ready to hire, we also help with the offer letter. We also email the résumé.

Every search gets its own interview kit: a playbook, a slide deck we share on screen, and a one-page summary candidates receive after the call. Every candidate hears your story the same way, including the challenges of the role, so nobody is surprised when they meet you. Your company name stays confidential until a candidate passes our first screen.

Yes. Every interviewer on your team gets their own interview questions on the candidate's page, written for their seat and built on the candidate's background, your intake call, our conversations with you and any interviews already done. Nobody repeats a question, and every round builds on the last. You can add notes, rate each answer, share the list with colleagues, or generate more questions in one click.

Direct digital outreach, handwritten letters, and in-person approaches when someone can't be reached any other way.

Typically one to two hours, before you ever meet them.

Your hire from the first two candidates we present, and a tough choice between them.

Yes. Confidential replacements and sensitive executive searches are run discreetly, with a controlled outreach narrative and NDAs where appropriate.

Yes. Many clients use TAP for searches that are too senior, too niche or too time-sensitive for their internal team to run alone, while TAP coordinates directly with hiring managers and internal recruiters throughout.

Pricing & Terms

How engagements are structured

Every search uses one of four packages: Executive, Specialized, Professional or Select Search. TAP proposes the package once it understands the search, and you decide whether to accept. The accepted package sets a non-refundable engagement fee, paid before sourcing begins, and a 25% placement fee based on total first-year compensation, invoiced on the candidate's start date and due within the number of calendar days shown for the package. Executive, Specialized and Professional engagement fees are credited toward the placement fee. Select Search engagement fees are set after the intake call and are not credited.

The placement fee is invoiced on the candidate's start date. It is due within 30 calendar days of the start date for Executive, Specialized and Professional Search and within 15 calendar days for Select Search. The engagement fee is invoiced after you accept TAP's proposed package and is paid before sourcing begins. Your signed agreement controls the terms.

Roles under $100,000 vary more than any other search we run. Some are a single specialist hire; others are high volume and take a lot of time and research. We confirm the scope on the intake call, then set an engagement fee that lets us fund the search properly. You approve the package and fee before anything is invoiced.

Each package includes a conditional Replacement Candidate Guarantee measured from the candidate's start date: 90 days for Executive Search, 60 days for Specialized and Professional Search, and 30 days for Select Search. It is a one-replacement remedy subject to Section 4 of the agreement, not a cash refund.

Working With TAP

Process, communication and fit

However works best for you. Every client gets three ways to reach us: TAP Client Access, a private page for your search where you can see progress any time; Jonathan's cell phone, for calls and texts; and email. Some leaders want a quick text, some want a weekly call, and some want to check in at 10 p.m. We work the way you work, and you always have a direct line to the person running your search.

TAP's employer service is leadership and executive search. Separately, TAP also offers an optional career advisory service for individual professionals, which is distinct from employer recruiting work. Career Advisory is separate from our employer searches. Candidates never pay to be considered for a role. Buying Career Advisory never gets anyone put forward to an employer, and not buying it never counts against them. We put an advisory client forward only when they are the strongest fit for the role, judged by the same standard as every other candidate, and we always tell the employer they are an advisory client. Read the independence policy

TAP's recruiting services are engaged by employers. If you're an individual looking for your next opportunity, you can join the free Leadership Talent Network to register your interest, or explore TAP's optional career advisory service. Explore the Talent Network · Explore Career Advisory

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