EXECUTIVE SEARCH + FLEXIBLE RECRUITING PARTNERSHIPS
Helping Tech Startups and Growth-Stage Companies Hire Leaders and Build the Teams Underneath Them
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From executive search to ongoing growth hiring and fractional recruiting, CareerEncore gives growing companies the recruiting support they need at each stage of growth.
We combine 20+ years of recruiting experience with an AI-forward, human-led approach to reach passive talent, understand the market and make better hires.
Your Hiring Needs Change as You Grow. Your Recruiting Partner Should Be Able to Change With Them.
Some companies need one critical executive hire. Others need to build an entire team. Some are growing quickly but cannot justify paying a traditional agency fee every time they hire. And sometimes an internal recruiting team simply needs more bandwidth.
CareerEncore is built to meet companies where they are and flex as those needs change.
Executive Search & Critical Hires
"We need the right leader, and we can't afford to get this hire wrong."
CareerEncore provides high-touch executive search for C-suite, VP and other mission-critical hires, with retained, Engaged Priority, exclusive and selective contingency search options based on the role and level of partnership required.
Growth Hiring Partnership
"We're growing, we have several people to hire, and traditional placement fees will eat through our hiring budget."
CareerEncore becomes your always-on Growth Hiring Partner, continuously building the top of your funnel and reaching passive candidates your internal team may not have the bandwidth to find.
Designed for tech startups and growing companies in high-growth mode with ongoing and recurring hiring needs, the Growth Hiring Partnership can support hiring across go-to-market, product, engineering, analytics, operations and other repeatable roles while helping companies reduce recruiting costs by up to 70% compared with paying traditional per-placement recruiting fees on every hire.
Fractional Recruiting
"We need more recruiting horsepower, but we're not ready to add another full-time recruiter."
CareerEncore provides embedded fractional recruiting support without the salary, benefits and overhead of adding another full-time recruiting hire.
The level of support can be customized based on your hiring volume, internal resources and where you need the most help.
WHO WE HIRE
Executive Search From the C-Suite to the Team That Executes the Strategy
We hire leaders and build the teams underneath them. CareerEncore recruits across the full C-suite and throughout high-impact go-to-market organizations, with particular depth across Sales, Marketing and Customer Success.
C-Suite Leadership
CEO
CRO
CMO
COO
CCO
CHRO
CIO
CISO
Go-to-Market Leadership
VP Sales
VP Marketing
VP Customer Success
Heads of Function
Directors
Go-to-Market Teams
Account Executives
Account Managers
Customer Success Managers
SDRs
BDRs
Other high-impact GTM roles
Fit Goes Beyond a Resume.
We look at cultural alignment, leadership style and stage-of-growth fit because different stages of growth require different muscles. The person who thrives in an early-stage startup may not be the same person best equipped to scale a more established company.
For leadership hires especially:
Leaders are the amplifiers of a company's vision, strategy, culture and values.
MARKET INTELLIGENCE
You Don't Just Get Candidates. You Get Visibility Into the Market.
A search should tell you more than who is interested. It should tell you what the market is saying. Depending on the engagement, that visibility and intelligence can include:
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Market & Competition
✓ Full market analysis
✓ Target-company market mapping and the competitive talent landscape
✓ Competitor intelligence
✓ Where competitors are sourcing and hiring similar talent from
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Compensation & Candidates
✓ Compensation study and market expectations
✓ Candidate availability
✓ What candidates are saying about your opportunity
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Reporting & Calibration
✓ Weekly candidate and search reporting
✓ Ongoing market feedback and calibration
✓ Where the search is gaining traction
✓ Where something may need to change
That intelligence helps us recruit more effectively, and it gives you better information to make hiring decisions.
For higher-touch engagements, those insights can also be brought together through more robust search reporting or a client-facing talent dashboard.
HOW WE REACH PASSIVE TALENT
How Does CareerEncore Reach Candidates Other Recruiters Miss?
Anyone can find names. The real work is getting the right passive candidates to stop, pay attention and want to have a conversation. That's where CareerEncore comes in. We don't just identify talent. We know how to position the opportunity in a way that gets the right people to engage.
THE LEVERAGE
AI-Forward Research
AI helps us research faster, search more broadly, identify more of the market and uncover talent that might otherwise be missed.
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THE CENTER
Human-Led Relationships
Humans bring the relationships, referrals, judgment, conversations, qualification and engagement that ultimately determine whether someone is right for your company.
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THE RESULT
Genuine Engagement
We work to create genuine interest in the opportunity. Personalized outreach, direct human engagement, video job descriptions, and a clear understanding of what is genuinely compelling about the company, culture and role help give the right candidates a reason to stop, pay attention and have a conversation.
Before outreach begins, CareerEncore starts with a deep intake to understand the role, critical success factors, company culture, stage of growth, what a fantastic first year looks like and what makes the opportunity genuinely compelling. That gives us something meaningful to take to market, not just a job title.
CareerEncore maps the market and proactively reaches passive talent through AI-forward research, an extensive professional network, referral outreach and personalized, multichannel engagement.
OUTREACH CHANNELS, CHOSEN PER SEARCH
Video job descriptions
Personalized selfie videos
Voice messages
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20+ Years of Recruiting Experience. One Very Modern Approach.
CareerEncore is an owner-led boutique executive search firm and recruiting partner built for tech startups and growth-stage companies across SaaS, software and AI, with years of recruiting experience spanning fintech, healthtech, cybersecurity, insurtech and other technology markets.
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CEO & Owner Renee Dovich brings more than 20 years of recruiting experience and has placed more than 1,000 people over the course of her career.
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CareerEncore works collaboratively with clients, as an extension of their team, taking the time to understand what they're building, what success in the role really looks like and what makes someone the right fit for the company, culture and stage.
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Today, CareerEncore combines that experience with AI-forward research, sourcing and market intelligence while keeping the parts of recruiting that matter most distinctly human: understanding the business, reading culture and stage fit, engaging candidates, advising clients and closing the right hire.
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The goal isn't simply to send resumes. It's to help solve the hiring problem.
What Clients Say About Working With CareerEncore
Questions We Hear From Growing Companies
How Does the Growth Hiring Partnership Work?
"We have an internal TA team, but they don't have the bandwidth to continuously source passive candidates."
"We have several hires to make, but we can't afford a $20,000+ agency fee every time we hire someone."
The Growth Hiring Partnership is a long-term, always-on recruiting model built for tech startups and growing companies in high-growth mode with recurring hiring needs. CareerEncore continuously builds the top of your funnel with passive talent while helping reduce the cost of paying a traditional placement fee every time you hire.
Do You Only Recruit Senior Executives?
"We need a CRO now, but we'll also need to build the sales and customer success teams underneath that leader."
No. CareerEncore conducts executive search across the C-suite and senior leadership, but we also help clients build the teams underneath those leaders across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and other high-impact go-to-market roles. For companies with sustained growth hiring needs, the Growth Hiring Partnership can also support recurring roles across engineering, product, analytics, operations and other functions.
What If Our Internal Recruiting Team Just Needs More Help?
"Our recruiters are buried in open roles and don't have enough time to proactively go after passive talent."
"We need additional recruiting capacity, but we're not ready to add another full-time recruiter."
CareerEncore can work alongside your internal team through the Growth Hiring Partnership or provide more embedded support through Fractional Recruiting, depending on the level of help you need.
What If We Only Have One Critical Hire?
"This is too important for a spray-and-pray contingency search."
CareerEncore offers retained, Engaged Priority and exclusive search for executive and mission-critical positions where focused market coverage, deeper qualification and a committed search partnership make more sense.
Let's Talk About What You're Trying to Build
Whether you're making one critical executive hire, building out a go-to-market team or looking for a more cost-effective way to support ongoing growth, we'll help you determine the recruiting approach that makes the most sense.
Start with a free 20-minute hiring strategy consultation. No pressure. No one-size-fits-all pitch. We'll start with what you're hiring for, what's working, what's not working and what's getting in the way.