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<strong>An</strong> <strong>Introduction</strong>
<strong>Society</strong> is a global<br />
executive search firm<br />
We bring about positive<br />
change around the world by<br />
placing exceptional people<br />
into meaningful roles within<br />
good organizations.<br />
From our offices in the United<br />
States and the United<br />
Kingdom, <strong>Society</strong> solves senior<br />
recruitment challenges for<br />
responsible businesses and<br />
purpose-driven organizations.<br />
Our clients come from a range of different industries and niches<br />
across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.<br />
We work broadly across many different functional areas,<br />
tackling everything from CEO and Board-level appointments,<br />
through to mid-level roles, and recruitment projects resulting<br />
from expansion or restructure.<br />
<strong>Society</strong> is a certified B Corporation.<br />
This means we have been independently<br />
audited in line with rigorous standards<br />
of social and environmental performance,<br />
accountability and transparency. We<br />
have also embedded a commitment<br />
to Responsibility into our Articles<br />
of Association.
The Value of Headhunting<br />
Why use a search firm in the<br />
first place? Well it’s important<br />
to remember that there are<br />
essentially two types of<br />
candidate: the active candidate<br />
and the passive candidate...<br />
We will devote ourselves to finding the best<br />
leadership talent for your organization.<br />
Through a process of creative research, patient courtship, and<br />
nuanced advocacy, we are able to help you move beyond<br />
appointing only ‘the usual suspects’.<br />
Active candidates have made a conscious decision to find<br />
a new role. As such they will be looking at job postings and<br />
networking furiously. But passive candidates are much more<br />
elusive. They’re usually busy people, currently giving little<br />
thought to their next job move.<br />
Public advertisements and contingent recruitment firms only<br />
succeed in accessing active candidates. A retained executive<br />
search firm like <strong>Society</strong> can add value by drawing in passive<br />
candidates as well.<br />
We can cast the net as widely as you want, unconstrained by<br />
sector or geographical boundaries. <strong>An</strong>d at the end of the day<br />
you will be able to appoint from a larger, higher calibre and<br />
more diverse field of candidates.
Full Executive Search<br />
Research-Only<br />
Bespoke Services<br />
Our Approach<br />
Rather than offering<br />
a ‘one-size-fits-all’<br />
solution, we are able<br />
to flex our approach<br />
to different client needs.<br />
A full executive search process is the best way of<br />
making senior appointments. It typically consists of<br />
the following stages:<br />
• We take an in-depth briefing from you in person, seeking<br />
to understand as much about your organization and the<br />
role as possible;<br />
• We conduct an extensive headhunt, making use<br />
of both our existing networks and creative research;<br />
• We interview a longlist of suitably qualified candidates<br />
on your behalf and make recommendations as to who<br />
should be shortlisted;<br />
• We help you to organize all the logistics of your own<br />
face-to-face interviews;<br />
• We assist you with taking up references and<br />
conducting any final salary negotiations with your<br />
preferred candidate.<br />
For mid-level appointments, a truncated research-only<br />
approach is sometimes appropriate. This streamlined<br />
model works as follows:<br />
• We take an in-depth briefing from you over the phone;<br />
• We conduct an extensive headhunt, making use of<br />
both our existing networks and creative research<br />
(this is sometimes undertaken in parallel with a<br />
public advertisement);<br />
• At the conclusion of the research phase, we sift all the<br />
candidate CVs and produce a preliminary grading;<br />
• We then send you all the candidate<br />
paperwork electronically;<br />
• You confirm which people you wish to take forward to<br />
interview, and we turn down any unsuccessful candidates.<br />
We look to form long-term partnerships with our clients<br />
and will therefore occasionally help them on other<br />
projects. These might include:<br />
• Conducting salary and benefits surveys for a specific<br />
role, gathering together data from an agreed set of<br />
competitive businesses;<br />
• Mapping the organizational structure of an agreed<br />
competitor (or a specific team within it);<br />
• Running specially-designed assessment centers to<br />
make sure you get the best results from your formal<br />
interview processes;<br />
• Delivering an enhanced reference check on appointable<br />
candidates, including verifying their academic and<br />
professional qualifications;<br />
• Conducting internal benchmarking exercises.
Delivering on Diversity<br />
We believe that diversity brings strength,<br />
resilience and legitimacy to organizations.<br />
That’s what we want for our clients, and we’re<br />
prepared to fight for it every step of the way.<br />
For us, diversity isn’t a bolt-on extra; it’s an integral part of<br />
how we work. We have therefore sought to identify grounded<br />
practical steps that we can take in order to get better results<br />
for our clients, and to embed them at every stage of our<br />
methodology. Central to our efforts is the collection and use<br />
of data. We conduct diversity monitoring across all our<br />
processes and use this to identify areas where we need<br />
to improve.<br />
<strong>Society</strong> has been lucky enough to work with some of the<br />
leading champions of equality, including advising Stonewall<br />
on their CEO appointment. We were a founding signatory of<br />
the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Executive Search Firms,<br />
an initiative aimed at securing a higher number of female<br />
appointments to the Boards of FTSE 350 companies. We have<br />
also been a vocal and engaged ally in important discussions<br />
around movements such as Black Lives Matter.<br />
The values of equality,<br />
diversity and inclusion<br />
are at the core of who<br />
we are as a firm and<br />
they are central to<br />
how we work.
We’re committed to being a<br />
responsible business. This<br />
means we don’t just want to<br />
create profit, we also want<br />
to play our part in securing<br />
a fairer world and a more<br />
sustainable future.<br />
The <strong>Society</strong> Foundation<br />
Every year we donate 10% of our<br />
profits to The <strong>Society</strong> Foundation.<br />
This is an independent charity<br />
we helped to set up. It provides<br />
grants aimed at helping<br />
potentially vulnerable<br />
individuals, including<br />
ex-offenders and the recently<br />
homeless, into paid employment.<br />
Reaching Net Zero<br />
We take our impact on the<br />
environment very seriously. For<br />
this reason we have joined with<br />
other businesses in declaring a<br />
Climate Emergency and we have<br />
publicly committed ourselves to<br />
reaching ’Net Zero’ carbon<br />
emissions by 2030.<br />
Reaching Our Client Net Portfolio Zero<br />
We take have our impact established on the environment a simple<br />
ethical very seriously. framework For this that reason helps we have us to<br />
joined with other businesses in declaring a<br />
Climate decide Emergency what clients and we our have company publicly<br />
should committed and ourselves shouldn’t to reaching’ work with. Net<br />
Zero’ carbon emissions by 2030.<br />
Wherever possible we are<br />
also trying to align our work<br />
with the UN’s Sustainable<br />
Development Goals.<br />
Read more at: www.society-search.com/responsibility
If you’re interested in learning more about <strong>Society</strong>, we’d love to<br />
hear from you. Please contact us on hello@society-search.com<br />
or via one of our offices:<br />
<strong>Society</strong> <strong>North</strong> <strong>America</strong><br />
<strong>Society</strong> Europe<br />
404 5th Avenue The Johnson Building<br />
Floor 7: 0ffice 030<br />
77 Hatton Garden<br />
New York<br />
London<br />
10018 EC1N 8JS<br />
United States<br />
United Kingdom<br />
+1 (917) 882 9827 +44 (0)207 935 4052<br />
www.society-search.com<br />
SOCIETY US INC REGISTERED IN DELAWARE | EIN 81-2887456