Create market maps with target companies and candidates

Executive search consultants create market maps with target companies and candidate pools

Needs setupAI Act: no extra obligationsResearching & comparingStaffing & recruiting

Fits: Leaders & strategy · Sales · Marketing & communications · HR

For a search, you quickly have a documented overview of target companies, their size, locations and relevant departments. The conversation with the client about the search strategy becomes more concrete, and direct approach starts earlier.

Is this for you?

  • You fill specialist and management positions through direct approach and create market maps for this.
  • The target companies publish enough about themselves: website, annual reports, job ads, press releases.
  • You have a candidate system in which personal data is kept with a legal basis, information to the people concerned and deletion deadlines.
First step today

Take an ongoing or typical search and use the template below to create a list of target companies with sources, without any people at all. Check three entries against the company website or the commercial register and discuss the list with your client.

How to go about it

  1. Set the search profile and target market
  2. Set sources for companies and people
  3. Have target companies researched
  4. Spot-check company data and profiles
  5. Prepare the market map for the client
  6. File the search framework and sources for the next search

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PD-10 · Legal status 08.10.2026