Case Study
The Grant Partners
The Grant Partners is a growing retained executive search firm specializing in C-level roles and their direct reports within the industrial manufacturing industry.
When they launched six years ago, a priority was to set the team up for success by implementing a time-saving software solution at the outset.
To get their firm up and running the right way, using a homegrown system for their search process wouldn't cut it.
- They needed right-sized tools for executive search
At previous firms, The Grant Partners' team used a combination of DIY systems and Salesforce, neither of which were suited to executive search. - They wanted to save time on administrative tasks
Manually adding candidates to a search was laborious and time consuming, and the new firm needed to run searches as efficiently as possible to be competitive. - They lacked real-time data insights to share with clients
Without a single source of truth to share real-time data points on a search's progress with clients, the team had to rely on manually-updated spreadsheets.
That's where Clockwork came in.
Clockwork is executive search software built for boutique firms, grounded in proven methodology to help you streamline the search process, deliver the best client experience, and grow over time.
How Clockwork helps The Grant Partners save time with every search and exceed client expectations:
Actionable search insights in real time
Working in Clockwork gives both The Grant Partners team and their clients valuable visibility into the progress and success of their searches, with no additional team effort required. And, with a shared understanding of their performance against internal success metrics, the team can focus on how to improve their processes.
Example: The Grant Partners team uses insights from their Clockwork dashboard to inform team collaboration and problem-solving in weekly meetings.
Time-saving candidate data imports
Clockwork's database makes manual candidate data imports a thing of the past for members of The Grant Partners team. They value the speed and efficiency with which they can import candidate data from LinkedIn, freeing up administrative time and boosting efficiency in the research stage.
Example: When adding a candidate into their database, they can pull in key profile information that would otherwise need to be populated manually.
Efficient team-wide task management
Adopting Clockwork has helped The Grant Partners refine how they communicate about and assign tasks, using the software's task feature to guide internal collaboration toward successfully completed search projects.
Example: Team members can be assigned tasks directly within Clockwork to help move searches along and make progress toward key success metrics.
Draw from your database to keep driving better results.
- Log the results of great work at every stage
- Accumulate valuable context on companies, candidates, and relationships
- Find and present best-fit candidates faster
What results has The Grant Partners achieved using Clockwork?
90-Day average time to placement
The Grant Partners' average time to a successful placement is 90 days, which is 27 days below industry average.
95% Placement by external candidates
Of the 300+ search projects The Grant Partners have completed since inception, 95% of those positions have been filled by external candidates.
Productive client engagement
Their clients love the experience of collaborating in Clockwork, and their engagement speeds along successful searches.