As technological, social and cultural trends impact the global enterprise, organizations are seeking a new kind of talent that is a better fit for the future. “Uncommon talent” is a term used to describe high-value individuals with unique, innovative skills that transcend industries.
Uncommon talent includes innovative and original thinkers with an intellectual curiosity that constantly challenges the status quo.
These driven individuals demonstrate the propensity to continuously learn new things and apply these learnings to deftly adapt to business critical opportunities.
While other industry recruiters are focused on re-using the same, limited pool of candidates, we focus on the identification and conversion of fresh, top talent.
Our candidates embody a broad mix of characteristics including creativity and operational know-how, paired with deep, industry-agnostic business experience.
Our approach provides a new lens for identifying, converting, and placing talent to spark innovation, inspiration, and creativity in organizations on the brink of change.
Our mission is to identify, source and cultivate the uncommon talent that empowers your organization to expand its reach, broaden capabilities and reinvent business for a new era.
Our proprietary sourcing and assessment process is uniquely designed to seek, attract, and qualify extraordinary talent. Our methods have been created and refined through analyzing the performance and trajectory of thousands of candidates worldwide.
Our initial sourcing strategy is driven by a client’s current and desired corporate culture, differentiating competencies, functional requirements, and critical experiences. These insights drive us to find the very best uncommon candidates.
Our assessment criteria are customized to blend unique client qualifications along with our knowledge of market excellence and ‘differentiators of uncommon talent.’ Assessment results produce candidate comparisons and insights that enable well-informed hiring decisions based on specific client needs and desire to hire the extraordinary.
The pace of play is clearly changing. From new product launches to supply chain and inventory cycles and customer insights, our clients are on a constant quest for speed, quality and innovation. Our belief is that you should expect the same from your recruiting cycle.
We believe the industry benchmark of 90-days to complete a single search reflects stale thinking and the inability to use technology, strong partner relationships and client focus to redefine what’s possible. At Adison, we hold ourselves to a higher standard that is designed to produce the quality you deserve in the timeframe you need.
Within 14 days of engaging Adison, we commit to our clients a slate of 2-3 fully vetted “bulls-eye” candidates. Globally, we have accomplished this for billion dollar enterprises and start-ups looking for diverse, extraordinary talent.
We are the ONLY retained firm that truly bets on our performance. Unlike typical retained search firms that lock clients into a full fee, we let you decide what we earn based on success.
Upon engaging Adison, you commit to an initial 30-day retainer. At the 30-day mark, if for any reason you decide to cancel the search, no additional fee is due.
We are so confident in our approach and committed to our clients and candidates, we have doubled the industry guarantee on all placements to one full year. We eliminate the fear of the “wrong hire”.
This commitment to being results driven, upfront, candid and honest with our clients has allowed us to generate 85% of our new business from existing clients and referrals.
Competitors deliver candidates at day 45. Adison presents sample profiles to test assumptions and build alignment at day 2 and vetted candidates within 14 days.
Competitors “go dark” for 30+days, with no testing. Adison provides complete transparency from day 1 and real-time activity reporting to continually test and learn.
Competitors leverage rigid processes and unproven proprietary assessment tools. Adison adapts our thinking and approach to your situation, with flexible ways of working that continually incorporates your feedback into our process.
Competitors build their search program around stale job descriptions and networks. Adison hunts across industry & non-industry benchmarks, while leveraging original research.
Competitors force you into their “box” and provide generic messaging. Adison learns your story and builds a value proposition specific to your opportunity.
Competitors rely on lifetime industry partners who approach your need, with their network bias. Adison looks for talent & inspiration beyond your industry. We connect dots across your organization, industry and beyond.
Yet in a business world teeming with new technologies, new ideas and new business models, there are new rules. At Adison Partners, we find business leaders who are curious, provocative and relentless in their pursuit of new opportunities.
At Adison we look to identify the disruptive talent who challenge the status quo by creating something new and different, working tenaciously to adapt to new business trends, and driving change from within.
Many of our clients develop a recurring need for a distinct candidate profile based on their unique business models. When such a role is vacated or an internal promotion is imminent, launching a reactive search can cause unnecessary business delays.
Instead, Adison Partners has developed a strategy to identify the specifics of these unique profiles in advance, and on a monthly basis we present a slate of bulls-eye candidates.
This is called pipelining, and it enables clients to take a proactive approach to their hiring needs. Pipelining provides our clients with immediate access to handpicked, prequalified, top-tier talent in real time.
This model can be utilized to shore up executive bench strength, and it guarantees a constant flow of culture-specific, best-fit talent for high-turnover development roles. Importantly, pipelining also increases the readiness for potential successors to step into key, high level positions in order to future-proof the business.