Executive search: then and now
From confidential rolodexes to AI-assisted leadership mapping, executive search has been quietly transformed.
The retainer model is intact, but everything around it has changed. Confidentiality is preserved by encrypted channels, not closed doors. Mapping is half human, half model-assisted. Reference-checks are now stress-tested with structured anonymous panels.
Yet the heart of the work is unchanged: judgment, discretion, and the ability to tell a candidate things their team cannot.
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