$600,000: What Our Client Almost Spent on Executive Search Fees
The smartest companies are saving massive fees by exploring alternatives to traditional executive search. Here's what we learned.
The $600,000 Wake-Up Call
Last month, a client almost handed over $600,000 in executive search fees. That's when we realized we weren't just building another AI recruitment tool. We were dismantling an entire industry that profits from inefficiency.
The Brutal Truth About Traditional Recruitment:
- →Companies wait until they're desperate
- →Post jobs and pray the right people see them
- →Pay 25-35% of salary for basic candidate matching
- →Miss 80% of qualified candidates not actively looking
The Exec Search Market Reality
Empathix Exec was developed to address market inefficiencies. While traditional executive search firms provide strategic value, costs have become unnecessarily high—often 25-35% of total first-year compensation.
For a $400K executive role, that's $100K-$140K in fees. For 5 executive hires, you're approaching $600K in recruitment costs alone.
The Underground Market is Real
Direct access to executive talent pools exists but remains largely unknown to most companies. More transparent, cost-effective alternatives should be available to growing organizations—not just Fortune 500 companies with massive HR budgets.
What's New: Emmy AI Agent
Emmy: Natural Language Candidate Search
Empathix introduced Emmy, an AI agent enabling natural language searching through candidate databases. Rather than boolean searches, recruiters can ask conversational queries like "Find me engineers who've worked internationally."
Emmy recognizes contextual experience not explicitly mentioned on CVs—like international exposure from remote work with global teams.
Tip of the Week: Privacy Matters
Never upload real candidate CVs into public GPT tools. AI's non-deterministic nature produces inconsistent results, and it presents serious privacy concerns requiring candidate consent. Use purpose-built recruitment platforms like Empathix instead.
The smartest companies are saving $600K in fees by exploring alternative recruitment paths.
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