Hicks Kimber Mears is truly international and has the ability to recruit across countries and cultures. All assignments are handled in-house without referring them to other independent agencies in other countries as this can often result in lack of alignment of priorities and briefings and timelines are often rewritten to the detriment of the assignment.

Hicks Kimber Mears is proud to have Platinum Membership of the world’s largest office network providing global reach across most countries and 100s of prestigious offices.

This Membership allows Hicks Kimber Mears to set up its own local identity and a fully resourced office with all support facilities literally within a matter of a few hours.

In our experience many professional services consultancies are riddled with jargon and often intimidate clients with supposed superior knowledge and the “little black book” approach, ostensibly full of possible candidates. At Hicks Kimber Mears we try to be refreshingly different. We offer clear, concise and pragmatic advice and business solutions that are driven at commercial pace and a conclusion that should only be measured as successful if the Executive acquired or developed brings real bottom-line added value to the company.

At Hicks Kimber Mears, we look to develop long term partnerships with clients and aim to become an integral part of that company’s decision-making resource.

Furthermore, we believe that we are the only Executive Search business that goes beyond just “making the placement”. All of our assignments include a 6-month executive coaching programme for the successful candidate. This programme focuses on ensuring that the joint expectations of our client and the newly appointed executive are clearly understood and managed from the initial stages of the relationship.

At Hicks Kimber Mears we believe in fixed fee assignments rather than percentages. In our view fees based on a percentage of remuneration/package rarely reflect effort, especially when final negotiations with a successful candidate may lead to an increase in remuneration.

Our fees are market competitive and we agree a fixed fee based on global reach and the complexity of sector and/or discipline before the assignment commences. We also agree a budget for flexible costs such as web-based advertising.

Confirmation of Assignment. Our verbally agreed fee structure will be confirmed in writing together with invoicing frequency and assignment timelines. Together with the Confirmation of Assignment document, we forward a draft of an Assignment Brief for agreement before the assignment commences.

A clear, concise, quality approach.