NT / METHOD

The contract is not the finish line.

Most recruitment ends when the paperwork is signed. Ours is built around what happens next: six stages that run from the first conversation to the sixth month in the new country.

UNDERSTAND → SEARCH → ALIGN → PREPARE → PLACE → FOLLOW UP SIX STAGES
01 / THE SEQUENCE END TO END

Six stages.
One responsibility.

Each stage exists for one reason: international placements fail on things a CV never shows. The sequence is how we find those things early, while they are still conversations instead of resignations.

Understand

BRIEF / BOTH SIDES

Before anything is searched, we sit with the employer and define what success in the role actually means: from the manager who will lead it, not the job description. For candidates, we start with why they want to move at all.

Search

MAPPING / OUTREACH

Market intelligence, name-by-name mapping and direct, discreet outreach. The people worth finding are rarely applying, so we go to them with a reason worth listening to.

Align

EXPECTATIONS / BOTH SIDES

The signature stage. We put the unspoken on the table: what the candidate expects from the role, the leadership and the country, and what the employer can honestly promise. Every point ends as understood, discussed, clarified or aligned. Never a score.

Prepare

BEFORE DEPARTURE

An international role is also a household decision. Before signing, we make sure the practical side of the move has been looked in the eye: relocation, family, the first ninety days.

Place

OFFER / SIGNED

The offer is made with expectations already on the table, not discovered later. Signing is a milestone in the process, not the end of it.

Follow up

30 / 90 / 180 DAYS

Structured check-ins with both sides at thirty, ninety and one hundred and eighty days. Are expectations matching reality? Is the manager relationship working? Is this becoming a long-term move? Placement is an event. Retention is the outcome.

02 / EXPECTATION ALIGNMENT BEFORE ANYONE SIGNS

The questions we ask before anyone signs.

Alignment is not an algorithm. It is a structured conversation, held early enough to matter, with both sides of the same table.

WITH THE CANDIDATE
  • Why do you want to move abroad, and why now?
  • What do you expect from the role, and from the country?
  • What kind of leadership do you perform under?
  • What does success look like after 6, 12 and 24 months?
  • What would make the move unsuccessful?
  • Is your household realistically prepared for relocation?
WITH THE EMPLOYER
  • What does success actually mean in this role?
  • How will the candidate be led, and by whom?
  • What development genuinely exists, and what does not?
  • What can you promise, and what can you not promise?
  • Which cultural differences will matter in the first months?
  • What is the longer-term career opportunity here?
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