u/sloppy_j0e

I’ve been trying to get my own firm back off the ground moving away from contingent towards retained but am in a tight spot with money so I’ve been applying to way too many hourly part time jobs advertised online. Those rarely even send rejection notices out, and I’ve been more than qualified for the bulk I’ve applied for. Is there a good method for securing part time hourly work in the search field? I had good luck running a list of boutique firms a while back and reaching out to leadership/owners about potential employment options but now I’m shifting away from the idea of joining a firm full time and need to see what I can identify for some part time work to get money coming in. Open to any ideas that have worked for others, I need to secure about $4k per month for bills/life to buy myself enough time to give my startup a real chance to grow.

I was impacted by a reduction in force a year ago at one of the SHREK firms and have since started my own firm. I went the contingent route and have been burned by my only client so now I am reworking everything to start over in a retained/contained business model with some of the lessons learned. While I ramp up and actually learn how to sell retained search work (trial by fire, because why not) I do need to create some type of income ASAP. I have started outreach to boutique firms to market my services as basically augmenting the work they do; market mapping, candidate outreach, pipeline building, etc, done either on an hourly rate or a project basis. 

I have absolutely no experience with selling my services in this manner or what to technically classify or refer to it as. While I am fumbling my way through this, I would welcome any input or guidance from people who've done something like this before! Thinking $70/hr if I utilize a clients resources, or something higher if I am expected to support the work with LinkedIn Recruiter for example on my end. Maybe a project fee of like $2k for building a pipeline of X number candidates. Just spit balling ideas here, I need some real-world input from those who've done this type of work for exec search firms acting as support to their existing teams. If it helps I have almost 20 yrs experience in search, almost a decade of that was with a major retained exec search firm, and my 'specialty' areas are academic medicine/healthcare/life sciences. Sincerely appreciate any guidance here!

I was impacted by a reduction in force a year ago at one of the SHREK firms and have since started my own firm. I went the contingent route and have been burned by my only client so now I am reworking everything to start over in a retained/contained business model with some of the lessons learned. While I ramp up and actually learn how to sell retained search work (trial by fire, because why not) I do need to create some type of income ASAP. I have started outreach to boutique firms to market my services as basically augmenting the work they do; market mapping, candidate outreach, pipeline building, etc, done either on an hourly rate or a project basis.

I have absolutely no experience with selling my services in this manner or what to technically classify or refer to it as. While I am fumbling my way through this, I would welcome any input or guidance from people who've done something like this before! Thinking $70/hr if I utilize a clients resources, or something higher if I am expected to support the work with LinkedIn Recruiter for example on my end. Maybe a project fee of like $2k for building a pipeline of X number candidates. Just spit balling ideas here, I need some real-world input from those who've done this type of work for exec search firms acting as support to their existing teams. If it helps I have almost 20 yrs experience in search, almost a decade of that was with a major retained exec search firm, and my 'specialty' areas are academic medicine/healthcare/life sciences. Sincerely appreciate any guidance here!

I was impacted by a reduction in force a year ago at one of the SHREK firms and have since started my own firm. I went the contingent route and have been burned by my only client so now I am reworking everything to start over in a retained/contained business model with some of the lessons learned. While I ramp up and actually learn how to sell retained search work (trial by fire, because why not) I do need to create some type of income ASAP. I have started outreach to boutique firms to market my services as basically augmenting the work they do; market mapping, candidate outreach, pipeline building, etc, done either on an hourly rate or a project basis.

 

I have absolutely no experience with selling my services in this manner or what to technically classify or refer to it as. While I am fumbling my way through this, I would welcome any input or guidance from people who've done something like this before! Thinking $70/hr if I utilize a clients resources, or something higher if I am expected to support the work with LinkedIn Recruiter for example on my end. Maybe a project fee of like $2k for building a pipeline of X number candidates. Just spit balling ideas here, I need some real-world input from those who've done this type of work for exec search firms acting as support to their existing teams. If it helps I have almost 20 yrs experience in search, almost a decade of that was with a major retained exec search firm, and my 'specialty' areas are academic medicine/healthcare/life sciences. Sincerely appreciate any guidance here!

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