We would be nowhere without excellent candidates and would love to engage with you. Please refer to our ‘For Candidates’ page for more information. Your confidentiality is guaranteed.

Absolutely – our standard guarantee is an industry-leading 12 months from start date. A few exceptions outside of candidate’s control do apply, such as a reduction in force or a corporate change of control event.

The Clark Group is believes in performance-based fees and only collect payment when we have successfully performed for our clients. We calculate our fee based solely on base salary, without the additional fees most firms charge for sign-on bonuses, guaranteed bonuses, equity grants (etc).  Also, we do not charge an “administrative” fee (industry standard is 15-20%) – and strongly believe that coupling success with value yields greater returns for everyone in the long term.

Our client relationships are among the longest-lived in industry – and their testimonials about our practice, our process, our performance and our value speak directly to our success as their key search partner. We also have an exceptionally low candidate turnover rate, which gives us the confidence to offer an industry-leading candidate guarantee.

Twenty years, located here in the Silicon Valley region of California.  Our team has over 75 years of experience in direct recruitment, sourcing and process management across the retained, contingency and in-house recruitment landscape. We understand and have been an active part of the workforce changes and talent requirements that have affected the technology landscape here – and have in turn gone on to affect all of the major tech centers worldwide.

We serve the United States and Canada directly. Our “Group” partner-firms have been selected for their excellence and shared values in regions covering Asia, Europe and The Americas. If you need a partner outside of the US and are looking for help, give us a call.

We perform just over 90% of our search activity between the Senior Manager and xVP levels of management, where skill-set requirements are often the most specific and difficult to obtain (eg. technical product development) and where clients often need the most complex mix of hands-on tactical leadership ability combined with executive-level strategic competence for managing up into the C-suite. About 10% of our search is performed at the C-suite, Board of Directors and Advisory Board levels.

We offer important and valuable differentiation:

• Although we perform each and every search as a fully-retained effort, we charge on performance and success – not “progress” or “milestones” (as is the model with all retained search firms)
• We do the hard work to deliver excellent solutions through specifically targeting and drafting talent for you. We actively recruit spec-perfect candidates in technologies we know, unlike contingency firms – whose revenue model and business practice are based on dumping low-value, widely-available resumes on clients and “seeing what sticks”
• We remove the risk, the waste and the inefficiency our clients face in a search landscape of guaranteed-fee retained firms and zero-promise contingency firms
• We specialize in four primary sectors of technology, which enables us to develop results quickly and accurately for our clients – we don’t claim to be a best solution to every industry
• We offer flexibility in our approach to each client, and customize each search to fit the needs of our client, be they venture-funded startups or $20B Fortune 500 companies
• Our focus is exclusively on our clients’ success, not on the internal politics of account ownership, fee maximization or shareholder pressures endemic to other retained and contingency firms in the technology space
• Our clients interface at all times with the principal of the firm, not a junior partner or associate