Executive Reverse Recruiter · New YorkReverse recruiting for New York executives.
New York fills its senior roles through a small number of hands. Tamara Cameron leads executive reverse recruiting at iCareerSolutions, headquartered on Madison Avenue, for Director-to-C-suite leaders who want those hands working on their behalf.
The market
A large city that hires like a small town.
Finance, media, healthcare, technology, law, and professional services all keep their senior leadership here, and the retained search firms that serve them sit within a few Midtown blocks of one another. A senior New York vacancy is usually discussed among a handful of partners and board members before anyone outside hears of it.
That concentration cuts both ways. An executive who is known to the right search partners is considered early and often. One who is not can run a full year of applications and never reach the conversation, because the shortlist was assembled before the posting went up.
It is also a market where circles overlap. A sitting executive cannot test the water publicly without the news travelling, which is why a New York search is nearly always a confidential one, run by approach rather than by application.
What changes in New York
Search-firm coverage
The partners who place your function and band in New York are identified by name, and you are introduced to each with a résumé they can present without rewriting.
Discreet approach
Outreach goes one to one, in your voice, to hiring executives you have approved. Nothing is broadcast, and each contact is asked who else at the company will know.
Sector targeting
Targets are set by sector and by the realities of the role: on-site expectations, travel, and the commute or relocation each would mean.
Compensation in view
New York City and New York State both require salary ranges in job postings, so a target band can be tested against the market before the first conversation.
Relocation both ways
For executives moving into New York, the search builds local recognition first. For those moving out, it opens the same doors in the destination market.
In person when it counts
Engagements run remotely week to week, with the firm's Madison Avenue office available when a conversation is better had across a table.
The practice
The same method, applied to a market that runs on introductions.
Every engagement follows the same three stages: position, pursue, perform. The target and the narrative are agreed first; sourcing, tailored submissions, and outreach run weekly; interviews and offers are prepared for until an appointment is made. The full scope is set out on the practice page.
iCareerSolutions is headquartered at 260 Madison Avenue, New York, and its reverse recruiting practice serves executives across the United States and Canada. Tamara Cameron leads that practice as Vice President of Professional Services and personally directs its premium engagements.