When you've got an important position to fill, your first choice always is to hire from within. When that's not feasible, you want a partner who understands that it typically takes 3 years to recoup your investment in an externally hired executive. Since 1990, PHR Group continues to be the only executive search firm to warranty their candidates for 3 years.

About the Company

PHR Group is a one-product company: All we do is retained executive search. We've been helping U.S. listed companies hire senior executives for positions based in the Asia, the U.S. and Europe since 1990. We specialize in positions with on-target-earnings of USD200K to USD2MM. We're a partner who shares the risks - and the costs - of identifying and hiring top talent from outside your company.

Our Philosophy

We believe that given time, any competent headhunter should be able to identify, recruit, and start a candidate–that's Recruiting 101. The real value delivery of a retained executive search is a function of what an externally hired executive produces during their first 2-3 years on board with your company. Since 1990, we continue to be the only executive search firm to warranty our candidates for 3 years.

No Candidate Recycling

Just paid $90K to your executive search firm and received a list of the "usual suspects?" PHR Group does not believe in candidate recycling. Although old-boy networks and database searches frequently result in shorter search cycles, there is a significant price to be paid by the hiring company. There are no shortcuts in this business; there is a direct correlation between the quality and diversity of a panel of finalists and the volume of candidates recruited by your headhunter.

Whereas many of our competitors are content to search their databases of known candidates and make a few dozen calls to assemble a panel of candidates, we recruit 150+ candidates on a typical search.

Success-Based Pricing

When you retain an executive search firm, do you know what you're buying? Are you actually buying a "market study?" You may be, if you're compensating your search firm irrespective of search result. At PHR Group, we add value by incrementally increasing our customer's pool of human capital by facilitating external hires.

As a result, our Search Fee is equal to 1/3 of an externally-hired candidate's first year on-target-earnings, payable in two installments: A single Retainer Payment invoiced upon start of the search and a Success Payment (equal to the difference between the Search Fee and the Retainer Payment) invoiced upon the start of your candidate.

Unlike most other executive search firms, PHR Group pays our own out-of-pocket search expenses, typically reducing your total search costs by as much as 15-20%.

3-Year Candidate Warranty

Despite our best efforts to screen & recommend candidates, as well as the thoroughness of our customer's selection & intake processes, candidate failure still infrequently occurs. Unlike other firms who prefer to believe candidate failure doesn't exist, we have over 16 years of experience partnering with our customers to replace failed candidates quickly and as painlessly as possible.