Executive Search

At fortalent, your senior consultant guides you through every stage, from role profile to signed contract, across the DACH region (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), with offices in Vienna, Munich and Zurich. You receive not only a sound market overview and a vetted Shortlist, but also project management, communication and advice from a single source. Because when a role is critical to the entire company and the hard facts become mere hygiene factors, that is where true quality shows.

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An Executive Search boutique with offices in Vienna, Munich and Zurich

As a boutique partner, we differ markedly – in process design and in outcome – from large consultancies juggling a multitude of mandates at once. At fortalent, you can expect a process tailored to you, with no internal hand-offs and no loss of information. Above all, what sets us apart is our willingness to go the extra mile for your mandate.

What you gain:

• Clarity on role and context: we translate strategy, organisational reality and stakeholder expectations into a robust role profile, calibrated together with you.
• Market & talent intelligence: target-group mapping and a complete target list, realistic availability, salary and package benchmarks, and insight into what actually works in the market.
• Discreet direct approach: professional, respectful contact at decision-maker level – with thorough pre-qualification and a personally managed candidate journey.
• A quality-assured selection process: semi-structured interviews, extended individual assessment centres, references, background checks and well-founded decision papers.
• Clear project management: timeline, status updates, stakeholder alignment, interview coordination, candidate communication and offer management – all in one hand.

Executive search: structured, fast, reliable

• Kick-off & role profile
  Joint briefing, success criteria, stakeholder map, search strategy and lines of communication (including levels of confidentiality).
• Search strategy & market mapping
  Target list, candidate personas, active sourcing and direct search, complemented by market insights.
• Direct approach & pre-qualification
  Discreet first contact; motivation and reasons for a move, professional and leadership fit, availability and terms.
• Shortlist & selection
  A vetted Shortlist with clear recommendations, structured interview rounds, optional in-depth assessments or case elements, and references.
• Offer & onboarding support
  Offer management, closing, start date and support through the transition – so that the decision truly delivers.

fortalent stands for discretion, seniority and a focus on results. You work with one point of contact who steers the mandate end-to-end – and who is on hand as a sparring partner for management or owners whenever needed. We use modern tools wherever they bring genuine efficiency, for instance in research and talent intelligence. Evaluation and judgement, however, always remain with the consultant: human, accountable and transparent.

If you need to fill a leadership role that is essential to your business, let’s use a short initial conversation to clarify what the market looks like, which executive search strategy is realistic, and how process, stakeholders and decision timeline can be brought neatly together.

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