Three days to a slate.
Thirty days to a hire.

The Pressure

A national commercial real estate firm needed a Senior Project Manager for advanced manufacturing and mission-critical work, in a secondary market without a deep talent pool for that specialty.

The role had been open for months with multiple agencies competing on the same requisition and no close. The client had committed to its own customer to staff the account within 30 days, and the vacancy had escalated to senior leadership who do not normally get involved in a single hire.

High pressure. High visibility. A real deadline.

The Mapping

Rather than wait on applicants, we mapped the market directly.

We researched comparable developments in the region to identify the owner’s representatives and end users attached to them, alongside the client’s traditional competitors.

The candidate who was eventually hired had almost nothing on their professional profile, no resume, and was not open to hearing from recruiters.

We identified them anyway. Reading the implicit signals in their background, and what was conspicuously missing from it.

The Slate

The first slate of candidates landed three days after engagement.

The client interviewed four candidates. All four were sourced by 24 Hour Search. An offer was made and accepted within 30 days, meeting the deadline the client had committed to with their own customer.

The engagement has since led to three additional searches with the same client.