Interim to Permanent Appointments

Interim to Permanent Appointments

With the expense and extended timescales of traditional executive search often being inappropriate, many clients like to use a ‘try & buy’ approach for board level positions in portfolio businesses through the highly focused resourcing methodologies employed by PILOTpartners. For our part we recognise that a flexible approach is essential when the outcome is unclear.

Or looking at it another way – when is a permanent opportunity simply an extended interim assignment by another name? In our experience it is by no means uncommon for an assignment thought likely to last for say 3-4 months to last for 3-4 years.

This approach suits executives known to us who may not necessarily be committed to interim management as a long term career path.

Alternatively, interim executives of many years’ standing are prepared to look at an interim to permanent opportunity where the prospect is ‘tailor made’ for them and where an equity stake is available.

Our fee structure for interim to permanent appointments is transparent and doesn’t hurt the budget as one might think – we simply reduce the placement fee by the profit we have earned during the interim assignment.