Retained Search for the Tech Industry
The Luciani Group is the retained search division of Kula Consulting. Kula and the Luciani Group joined forces in 2009 to offer executive search services to clients who understand the importance of acquiring the best possible senior financial talent. The combination of Luciani Group’s 30-plus-years’experience in executive search, and the breadth of Kula Consulting’s technologically advanced client/candidate acquisition processes, give us distinct qualitative and quantitative advantages over other candidate acquisition solutions in attracting the ideal candidates necessary in today’s competitive business environment.
Performance-Based Search Firm
Performance-Based Search Firm -- a Hybrid of Retained and Contingency Search: In any job market, the best candidates are always difficult to find and to attract, from both their current situations as well as other competing opportunities. We are well known, trusted and respected in our marketplace. Finance managers and executives take our calls because they are aware that we know what we’re doing and know that our portfolio of opportunities is worth their investment of time.
“The smartest business decision you can make is to hire qualified people. Bringing the right people on board saves you thousands, and your business will run smoothly and efficiently.”
Retained Search process
We conduct discussions with appropriate staff and executives of your company to fully develop our understanding of your needs, the personalities involved and your corporate culture. We seek qualified candidates through targeted research, conversations with peer contacts, industry contacts, academic contacts and trade associations.
Our conversations with prospective candidates will address two general objectives:
Screening candidates against the qualifications profile.
Enrolling potentially qualified candidates in the opportunity your company represents.
We present qualified candidates' professional credentials and narrative descriptions of their relevant experience. In addition, we determine their respective levels of interest and suggest schedules that meet these.
Process Ensures Successful Outcome
We work with your organization to manage the process that begins with agreeing on the candidates to be interviewed and concludes with extension of offers. This includes administrative aspects such as scheduling interviews and making hotel reservations. In addition, we maintain informal, open relationships with both you and the candidates so that any concerns on both sides are identified and addressed promptly.
We manage expectations within the process so that each participant is kept properly informed and the search remains as inclusive of these individuals as is appropriate.
We are committed to communication
We stay in close contact with candidates, ensuring that the offer presentation is made properly. We follow up with both the client contact and the successful candidate after the first thirty days of employment, after three months, and after one year. During the entire search process, we will be in constant communication as the need to accommodate new information or changes in the assignment's specification or qualification profile may arise.
Our process challenges many assumptions and evaluates the client environment and takes into consideration changing market conditions.