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Service three

Confidential search

A retained search run off the map: approach, screen, an evidence pack per candidate, and a clear read on who said no and why.

Time to deliver
Six to ten weeks
Employers under coverage
22
Live vacancies indexed
1,457

What you receive

  • A search run against a named map, not a database keyword hit
  • An evidence pack per candidate: work, level, market position and pay expectation
  • A weekly written read on the market's response to the brief
  • A recorded reason for every decline, so the brief can be corrected early
  • Offer support with the benchmark in hand

How the work runs

  1. 01MapThe search starts from the named population, so coverage is provable rather than claimed.
  2. 02ApproachConfidential, individual, and always on the employer's terms about what is disclosed and when.
  3. 03ScreenTechnical fit, level and pay expectation checked before anyone reaches your desk.
  4. 04CloseOffer stage run against the live benchmark so the number holds the first time.

Evidence behind it

Every shortlist arrives with the market context that produced it.

What makes a shortlist here different?

It arrives with the market that produced it: how large the population was, how many were approached, who declined and why. You can see the coverage rather than take it on trust.

Is the mandate ever disclosed without permission?

No. What is disclosed, and at which stage, is agreed with you before the first approach is made.

Hiring enquiry

Start a confidential search conversation

One form for every service. We reply within a working day with a first read on your market, before any commercial conversation.

The other two services

Market mappingA named map of everyone doing the work you are hiring for, by firm, desk, seniority and market, with movement over the last twelve months.Compensation benchmarkingWhat the role actually clears in each market, split by base and expected bonus, with sample size and confidence shown against every band.
A quantitative trading floor at work

Hiring is a market read before it is a search

Every mandate starts from the same index the market reads, so the brief is argued from evidence rather than instinct.

Methodology

Figures are expressed as annual total compensation (base salary plus expected performance bonus) in the reference market's local currency, converted from a US dollar base. They describe typical market ranges rather than any individual offer, and exclude sign-on payments, deferred equity and carried interest. Portfolio-manager figures reflect formulaic profit-share arrangements and are therefore far more dispersed than any other role.

KnowQuantIndex 2026.1 · Updated September 2026

Modelled bands describe the market, not an individual offer. Where an employer states pay, the stated figure is used and labelled as such.