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Comparison Guide

We encourage every potential candidate to become a smart consumer and exercise due diligence by investigating every aspect of any career service company they are considering for handling their your most important asset - their career. In your own executive life you made decisions based upon facts. This decision is no different. The guide suggestons below and the printable checklist will both help you ask the right questions when comparing SC&C to others.

Our experience over the last twelve years, the written client comments and the live recorded interviews from of our clients, all offered on this website, should confirm what we already know - Stewart, Cooper & Coon is the only choice for the well-informed six-figure executive in search.

First Initial Steps When Comparing Others To SC&C

  1. Call your local Better Business Bureau and inquire about the company you are considering and ask if they have had complaints. If so, how many in the last year and the nature of these complaints. The BBB number for SC&C is found on the corporate profile page of this site.
  2. Call the local Chamber of Commerce and determine if the company you are considering is a member. SC&C is a member of both the Better Business Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce.
  3. Call the State Licensing Agency that governs the company you are considering and ask appropriate questions of them. If they are not licensed, maybe you should pause and ask yourself why. The contact number for the agency licensing SC&C is found on the corporate profile page of this site.
  4. SC&C provides current live tape recordings with clients whom we have placed and we also provide written comments from those live interviews to support those our clear statement that the Stewart, Cooper & Coon story is factual, compelling, documented and honest.

Six Strategic Reasons for Choosing Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Inc.

  1. Unlike others who claim to "work with recruiters," we ARE executive recruiters with ongoing Fortune 50-1000 company relationships.
  2. We are a Preferred Member of Top Echelon, a national executive recruiter consortium of over 2000 retained and contingency recruiters.
  3. We place managers, professional and executives making in excess of $100,000. Click here to listen to their voice recordings as to why they chose SC&C.
  4. We provide a written contract, in advance of our joint decision to proceed. Few competitors do this.
  5. We offer multiple guarantees, in writing, and a refund policy in writing, should you, at any time, feel we have not lived up to your expectations.
  6. We also guarantee we will refund 50% of your initial fee, should one of our executive recruiters place you and the fee we receive is greater than the fee you have paid.  No other career company in the world offers this to you.

Ten Support Reasons for Choosing Stewart, Cooper & Coon

Unlike companies that assign a single coach to your campaign, we have a professional team of up to ten people working on your job search at any given point. As you compare us with other companies, ask who will actually work on your campaign and ask for that in writing. At SC&C, you are guaranteed-in-writing a team consisting of the following members:

  • Campaign Director - This is your project manager or "quarterback". This person is responsible for overall campaign success. Our CDs have senior level backgrounds in Fortune 1000 companies and the public sector as well with an average of over 15 years of experience in the recruiting or executive transition fields.
  • Professional Résumé Writer - We have only nationally certified writers on our team. With most other companies, a coach writes your résumé, does all the work and tries to guide you through your job search. Unfortunately, no one person, no matter how good they are, can be everything to everybody. When it comes to documenting and packaging your candidacy, you owe yourself only the very best. After your "packaging and branding" is complete, your documents are reviewed and finalized by one of our nationally certified writers to conform to all known national writing and formatting standards.
  • Proofing Specialist - One never gets a second chance to make a good first impression. Our staff of proofing experts carefully proofs and edits all documents before publication. We do this because if any document you send out contains errors, you will be perceived as careless. Our proofers are seasoned editors and professional writers determined to present you to the world error-free.
  • WebFolio™ Designers - We develop a personal Web site for you that is quick to read and presents your stories in depth. By unanimous acclaim of our clients, AND by unanimous acclaim of each and every company we present to that, hands down, this SC&C exclusive service is a major contributor to SC&C client job search successes. - not only in securing the position they desire but also in eliminating the others against whom they are competing. An example WebFolio™: http://www.stewartcoopercoon.com/webres/danderson1/
  • Process Administrators - At least two members of our administrative team ensure your campaign is carefully monitored, that your progress is tracked and fully expedited from the beginning to a successful conclusion.
  • Posting and Distribution Specialist - Working with your Campaign Director to identify job boards specific to your industry, should you require technical guidance or advice, our P&D Specialist is available to help you. We have over 13,000 recruiters, nationwide, in our database and your resume will be sent to those that are work-history, interest area, industry specific and geographically appropriate. Your résumé and cover letter will be sent to them. Also, your résumé is shared with fellow recruiters who are members of Top Echelon, a national recruiter consortium of over 2000 executive recruiters nationwide. We are a preferred member of this prestigious organization.
  • Target Company Research Specialist - You and your Campaign Director will identify your transferable skills, your core competencies and industries that can use those skills. Your target companies may then be developed using our powerful and comprehensive databases of corporations, associations, venture capital firms, public entities and other sectors to explore as you develop your career strategy. Working together, you will develop a list of companies that could use your skill sets and meet your personal success criteria. Should you have difficulty while exploring our vast databases or have technical difficulty accessing them, a research specialist will provide you guidance and to clarify issues you might encounter, especially when developing highly-specialized research targets.
  • Campaign Marketing Specialist - Once your list of target companies has been developed, your Marketing Specialist's job is to contact those target companies on your behalf to present you as a most placeable candidate. This is accomplished by using your WebFolio, a powerful tool in gaining attention to your candidacy and an effective tool in setting in motion the process of getting interviews. Once your WebFolio is presented, they will follow up with the company to discuss your candidacy. There is one single purpose for these calls - to expose your candidacy at the hiring authority level to set in motion the process for gaining interviews for you at companies where you have decided you wish to work.
  • Executive Placement Recruiters – You will be presented to our executive recruiters in the SC&C Recruiting Division. They will review your work history, career goals, positioning and will actively look for special placement opportunities for you and work those, as would any recruiter. Only in this case, instead of a recruiter working for the company that hires them, you will have an executive recruiter supporting you.
  • Senior Staff Oversight - Members of our executive committee monitor your campaign and will provide behind the scenes input to the Campaign Director on strategic direction and other considerations.


    What We Deliver

1. Campaign Preparation

  • Discuss and establish your search direction
  • Develop your search calendar to ensure swift and timely employment
  • Access to SC&C worksheets available from anywhere in the world - 24/7
  • Define transferable skills and core competencies to start the "packaging" process
  • Determine how to "brand" you for acceptance by the hiring authorities
  • Develop rationale for securing interviews
  • Discuss and guide you in establishing a long-term career strategy

2. Document Preparation, Packaging and Distribution

  • Résumé finalized by one of our nationally certified writers to conform to all known national writing and formatting standards
  • Professionally written cover letter for recruiter distribution
  • Professionally written cover letter for corporations
  • ASCII-Résumé preparation instructions
  • Fast-Track™ résumé instructions with examples
  • Personal Web site and WebFolio™ - prepared and hosted online
  • Résumé sent to the targeted executive recruiters from the 13,000 in our database
  • Résumé posted on Top Echelon - national recruiting consortium
  • Résumé posted on best-fit specialty boards
  • Present your candidacy to up to 200 target companies - depending on program selected
  • Identify industries of interest for network marketing
  • Access To SC&C's Private Databases Including:
    • Search over 4,000,000 job listings daily
    • Hoover's database of over 16 million companies with current contact data
    • 44,000 venture capitalists
    • Over 34,000 associations and Not For Profit Organizations
    • Over 2000 newspapers to seize on event or "Spot" opportunities
    • Over 100 top business magazines - online daily
    • And many more data sources not readily available to the public

3. Strategic Positioning, Interviewing, Negotiation, Multi-Channel Activity

  • personal coaching on channel marketing
  • explore transferable skills and career change possibilities
  • strengthen interview skills
  • negotiation exercises and simulations
  • telephone interview techniques and simulations
  • direct mail strategy guidance
  • shown how to select strategic recruiters
  • develop stories for interview control
  • discuss compensation package and how to optimize
  • discuss placement strategies and implement action tactics

4. Placement Activity

  • a personal marketing specialist contacting companies to present you to hiring authorities
  • weekly meetings throughout entire campaign - review, evaluate and adjust strategies
  • average placement time of 20-26 weeks  - executives w/$150K+ base salary

5. Post Employment Status for the duration of your agreement

  • SC&C staff and our network of $100K+ executives available for conferences
  • Campaign Director counsel on negotiation strategies and reviews
  • personal Web site update - no cost
  • résumé update - no cost
  • SC&C database access - no cost

One Final Consideration

We encourage you to print the comparison guide listed that is linked below.  When a competitor states that they offer identical services, ask for that in writing AND make absolutely sure they put it into the contract they provide you to sign. If they provide that to you in writing AND you are satisfied that the depth of coverage equals or exceeds that of SC&C, put a checkmark in their box. If they are hesitant or are unwilling to put what they have told you verbally into their contract with you, it should give you pause about the value of using their services. Add up the totals in the checklist below and then make a smart consumer decision.

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