Why Oak Hill Partners—Search

• Without exception one or more of the Partners at Oak Hill will take direct responsibility for any search it undertakes. It will never be handed off to a more junior associate.
• The Partners at Oak Hill have already proven their individual capability by successfully completing over 200 searches each and over 800 searches collectively. They represent 80 years of combined search experience with 60 years of prior corporate experience.
• Most clients prefer candidates in their own industry even though they might be willing to go outside of it. At Oak Hill we exhaust the client's industry first by targeting those candidates in the preferred industry which almost always surfaces a sufficient number of qualified, capable, and promising executives.
• Research and the surfacing of candidates is performed by the IDENTICAL organizations and researchers used by the Big Four large firms. This includes the use of a proprietary data base of the most successful executives containing over 750,000 prospects. As important, the Partner in charge of the search is engaged in a significantly greater percentage of this critical phase of the search process compared to other larger firms.
• The Partners of Oak Hill have agreed to a "self imposed" limit of no more than ten searches a year and three searches at any one time. This compares to search executives in larger firms handling a minimum of six to seven searches, at one time, and eighteen to twenty annually. We offer significantly more individual client attention and updates which provides faster turnarounds and higher completion rates.
• Off limit issues are extremely rare and virtually nonexistent given the size of the firm and the number of clients we serve. Moreover we do not engage in or support "dual processing" or "reserving" candidates that the larger firms must do to maintain a strong candidate flow to clients.