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    Executive & Leadership Recruiting

    Hire the leaders your business needs next.

    Leadership and executive search for companies hiring managers through the C-suite. Every candidate is interviewed in depth and presented on a private website built for your decision, at a 25% fee, not the one-third global search firms typically charge.

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    From a critical management hire to your next executive leader.

    How We Help

    Two ways to work with TAP.

    Leadership & Executive Search

    A focused search for management, director, vice president, and C-suite hires, run with direct outreach and structured candidate evaluation.

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    Embedded Recruiting

    Senior recruiting support that works as part of your team for companies with several hiring priorities or limited internal capacity.

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    How Every Search Runs

    The depth you'd expect from a global search firm. Delivered personally.

    An intake built around your company

    The outcomes this hire must deliver, what's truly required, and the team they'll join, so we can speak to candidates like one of your own leaders.

    Outreach that reaches the people others can't

    Direct digital outreach, handwritten letters and, when needed, in-person approaches, including people who aren't looking.

    One-to-two-hour interviews before you meet anyone

    Every candidate is interviewed in depth. Only the ones who clear our bar are presented to you.

    A private website on every candidate we present

    A short video, a rating against each requirement with our reasoning, the practical details, and why we recommend them.

    Our goal: your hire from the first two candidates we present, and a tough choice between them.

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    Inside every candidate website

    Most firms send a résumé. We send a website.

    A private website on each candidate we present, shared only with your hiring team.

    Private candidate site

    Candidate A · VP of Operations

    Recommended: Advance
    Sample

    Video preview: background and experience

    • Multi-site operations leadershipExceeds

      Led a multi-site operation through a regional expansion.

    • P&L ownershipMeets

      Owned a division budget and reported results to the CEO.

    • Scaling a team through growthExceeds

      Built the operations team from a small core to a full leadership layer.

    Availability
    30 days
    Location
    Open to relocation
    Relocation
    Not a factor
    Compensation target
    Within your range
    Status
    Employed, seeking a larger scope
    Background check and drug screen
    Ready to complete both
    RésuméLinkedIn

    Why we recommend

    Has already delivered the kind of multi-site growth your first-year plan calls for, and wants the larger scope this role offers.

    Sample for illustration. Not a real candidate; the person in the video is AI-generated.
    • A short video of the candidate discussing their background and experience
    • A rating against each requirement of the role, with the reasoning behind every rating
    • Their motivations, and how they relate to this role
    • How soon they could start
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    Our founder's placements include

    The White House · NASA · Google · Boeing · Lockheed Martin · Big 4 firms · Fortune 100 companies · Startups

    How We're Paid

    A clear, agreement-based fee structure.

    Every search uses one of four packages, each with its own engagement fee and placement terms. TAP proposes the right package once we understand the role; the signed agreement governs the details.

    Our fee is 25% of first-year compensation. Global search firms typically charge one-third, plus expenses.

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    The Founder

    Founder-led, on every search.

    17 years in recruiting · Former Lead Executive Technical Recruiter at Google · Named by LinkedIn in 2021 as one of the top 10 recruiters worldwide for candidate outreach response rates

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    Jonathan founded Talent Authority Partners to bring a direct, hands-on approach to leadership hiring. Every engagement gets his involvement, not a handoff to a junior team.

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    Relevant across industries

    TAP has supported hiring for companies in technology and AI, manufacturing, construction, logistics, and professional services, among others. These are examples of relevant experience, not restrictions on who we work with.

    • Cross-industry leadership hiring, not a single-vertical focus
    • AI fluency used for research and organization; recruiters own the conversations
    • Startups and established organizations alike

    We recruit across the leadership org chart.

    ManagementDirectors & Department HeadsVice Presidents & Senior LeadershipC-Suite

    Tell us who you need to hire next.

    A straight conversation about the role and whether TAP is the right fit to run it.

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