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Executive Search Services
Measure the mandate behind the search.
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What is the client-acquisition milestone for a retained executive search campaign?
AESC’s member standards describe a written engagement and retained, exclusive search relationship. Distinguish an employer inquiry and signed mandate from candidate interest or a résumé upload. Those actions serve different sides of the business and should not share an acquisition count.
What can substantiate an executive search ad’s sector-expertise promise?
AESC says clients should understand a member firm’s industry and functional capabilities and resources. Base the advertised expertise on the firm’s demonstrable practice, then qualify the employer’s role and context. The category label alone does not establish specialist capability or search success.
How should confidential executive assignments affect acquisition creative?
AESC’s standards protect confidential information entrusted during an assignment. Use permissioned, non-identifying examples to describe the service and keep confidential client or candidate details out of acquisition material. Confidentiality can explain the offer without turning private assignments into public proof.
Does an accepted executive offer complete the whole search-service journey?
AESC describes follow-through beyond acceptance, including onboarding support. For a firm offering that service, distinguish offer acceptance from completed onboarding in outcome reporting. Do not turn a member standard into a claim that every search provider guarantees retention or delivers the same follow-through.
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The exact category cohort does not support a publishable AOV aggregate. Parent and sibling benchmarks are not substituted.
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Benchmark status reviewed 11 October 2026.
The exact category cohort does not support a publishable AOV aggregate.
Median and middle 50% of account-level average order values. Each account value is purchase ROAS multiplied by cost per purchase in USD. Successful classifications, including manual corrections, with positive finite spend, purchases, ROAS and cost per purchase. Accounts are counted once with equal weight. Quartiles use linear interpolation. Root cohorts include direct root classifications and their child categories; exact-child cohorts exclude parent and sibling categories. The source selects the highest-spend coverage row per account among snapshots dated within the preceding 30 days; the underlying reporting period is not supplied. This is a dated aggregate advertising-data snapshot, not business-wide AOV or a census. Parent and sibling benchmarks are never substituted.
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