Working With Executive Search Clients
Why booking links fail here#
Sending a scheduling link to a sitting executive signals that your time is the constraint and theirs is the variable. It is efficient and it reads badly, which is why the firms with the most demanding clients are also the ones still coordinating by hand.
That leaves a real cost: partners and associates spending their week on message-passing instead of search work.
What white-glove actually requires#
Coordination in their channel
The candidate or client answers on the channel they choose — email, a text, WhatsApp. Nobody senior installs a tool because a search firm asked them to. See Channels.
Options, not requests
Asking someone senior to "send over your availability" pushes work onto them. Proposing three concrete slots in their own time zone does not.
Persistence without pestering
Senior people go quiet for legitimate reasons. Follow-ups have to keep coming without turning into pressure — see Follow-Ups and Chasing.
Grace under rescheduling
They will move the call, often late. What matters is that the re-coordination is invisible to them and complete for everyone else. See Rescheduling.
Ranking that reflects reality
A client interview does not lose its slot to an internal meeting. Vela applies that priority without a rules engine — see Priorities and Preferences.
What the firms say#
"Using this is a no brainer to me." — COO at a legal tech firm
"I think everyone should just use Vela." — Partner at a Fortune 100 firm
Related: Who Uses Vela, Time Saved.