When you need to locate and bring aboard a key executive, you have many options, but nearly all present drawbacks. Associates and acquaintances can not give your executive search efforts the high-level, national scope required. Even employment agencies and contingency firms tend to operate within a given geographical area, limiting the scope of the search.  A well-qualified national executive search firm gives you the best opportunity to find a well-qualified candidate.  What should you look for in a national executive search firm?
Five basic criteria cannot be compromised:

1. National perspective, that is the ability and willingness to identify the best candidates available anywhere, at any time.

2. High professional and ethical standards, assuring you of confidentiality, honesty in all practices and objectivity in all recommendations.

3. A commitment to work exclusively on your behalf, not that of candidates. (This distinguishes executive search firms from employment agencies/contingency firms.)

4. Strong familiarity with the latest tools, methodologies available, plus sound analytical and technical skills.

5. Solid, sustained experience in executive search.

We at Jonas, Walters & Associates, Inc. suggest one additional criterion. We don't pretend that this criterion is objective. We believe we are the only national executive search firm to meet it. A program that integrates the skills of three different professionals assigned to each search. The end product is the broadest possible search with a precisely focused result.