Risk is inherent in any executive level hire. Hiring mistakes result in significant losses including:
• Lost compensation
• Operational failures
• Damage to customer relationships
• Poor Morale
• Additional turnover

Credible estimates of losses range from three to fourteen times annual cash compensation. Even at the low end, losses from an executive level hiring mistake could easily exceed one-million dollars.

Clearly, managing the risks associated with a senior level executive search calls for a rigorous candidate assessment process.

Validus Partners is a fully retained, contractually exclusive, executive search firm. Over the past 14 years, we have developed an extraordinarily thorough and demanding candidate assessment process that significantly mitigates our client’s hiring risks; and we back our work up with a one year replacement policy. Our track record confirms the power of our process. In fourteen years we have only had to replace two candidates. That is a success rate greater than 98 percent.

We are open to discussions with potential clients that recognize the unavoidable risks associated with hiring at the executive level; and therefore understand the value and necessity of in-depth candidate assessments.