How we work

Run the full process, or just the parts you need.

Our nine-step process is the complete version. You choose how much of it we carry, from sourcing and deep vetting while your team runs interviews, right through to us owning almost everything up to your final sign-off. We scope it to how much lifting you want, and price to match.

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A modular model

Choose how much we carry.

Most agencies sell one process at one fee. We work differently. You decide how much of the work sits with your team and how much sits with us, on every search, and the engagement flexes around that. More on us, or more on you: the standard of the people we put forward stays high either way. What changes is which stages we run and how we price them.

Lightest touch

We source and vet, you lead

We find the right people and screen them rigorously, then hand over a shortlist. Your team runs the interviews and makes the call.

We run: sourcing and screening. You keep: interviews and the decision.
Shared

We run most of it, together

We carry the search through sourcing, vetting, and a technical assessment, and stay close with you on the stages that matter most to your team.

We run: most of the process. You keep: the stages you want to own.
Fullest

We own it, you sign off

We take the whole process end to end, all the way to a single, well-matched candidate, so your team does little more than a final check and the yes.

We run: everything, up to sign-off. You keep: the final decision.

These are illustrations, not fixed packages. We shape the engagement around how your team likes to work, and we are clear up front about exactly which steps a given search includes.

The process

From kick-off to hire. Every step.

Nine steps, from discovery to onboarding. Four independent verification layers. A bespoke technical assessment built for every role. This is the full toolkit, your engagement uses the steps that fit.

Step 01 of 09

Discovery Workshop

We open with a structured conversation to understand everything that matters: your culture, your team dynamics, the outcomes you need, and the roles you need to scope. Your kick-off notes, job specifications, and client intelligence feed directly into our AI and sourcing teams, so every search is calibrated to what you actually need from the start. One specialist leads it, and they own your search from this point forward.

Human-LedAI-Informed
What we explore together
  • ✓Your culture and what an ideal hire looks like in practice
  • ✓The specific outcomes this hire needs to deliver
  • ✓Role scope, seniority, and must-haves
  • ✓Your interview process and timeline
4×

Four independent verification layers, built into every full C-Serv search

Multiple layers of AI screening, a human EQ and culture check, a bespoke role-specific technical assessment, and an expert SME review where the role requires it. On lighter engagements we run the layers that fit the brief, and we tell you which.

AI ScreeningHuman EQ CheckTechnical AssessmentSME Review
Straight with you

What flexes, and what doesn't.

How much of this process we run flexes with the engagement you choose, and so does the price. What doesn't flex is the standard of the work itself: every step we do run, we run properly, and we never put a name in front of you we wouldn't stand behind. Before we start, you'll know exactly which layers sit behind each candidate, so there are no surprises about what our shortlist does and doesn't mean.

Not sure how much you need?

Tell us what you need and we'll get back to you.

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