About TH Bender

Working with international clients and serving their unique needs is why we started the company. For us, global thinking and cultural sensitivity are not buzzwords served up by a public-relations agency but something we live every day. Our consultants have lived and worked in numerous European, Asian, and American countries and we all share a strong affinity for “all things international”.

The foundation of our work is our in-house database of 275,000 profiles of candidates we developed from the ground up. Together with a personal network built over 20 years we often find excellent candidates and referrals from these two sources. However, the often not recognized truth is that original research, often within very narrow sectors and niches, is still key to a successful search. We often identify over 1000 potential candidates for a single position - almost no other search company is willing to deploy the required resources for this effort.

We believe that past performance is the best indicator of future success. That’s why we find candidates the hard way: identifying and approaching them directly, while they are happily employed. 95% of our candidates are gainfully employed when we approach them; many of them are in long-term careers with a record of promotions with their current employer.

Overseas companies often have no brand - and lack the scale of their American competitors. It requires deep personal interaction to convincingly communicate to a promising prospect the advantages of working for a foreign company. The often-broad responsibilities awarded by subsidiaries, the joy of personal growth, and the ability to take charge and see the results of personal efforts need to be recognized by the recruiter and convincingly communicated.

Even finding the best candidates is of no value if the deal doesn’t work out at the end. Executives want to work with respected professionals who they regard as equals. This is why in every search our senior-most Partners take over the interviews, meet with the finalist personally, build a rapport with them, participate in the first meetings between candidates and clients, and are active participants during the negotiations.

We guarantee our placements for twelve months. This is plenty of motivation to get the job done the right way and continue to work with the client and candidate. Small, often culturally-based issues can quickly lead to frustrations on both sides. Our involvement makes sure that small irritations are remedied quickly.

We have our 290,000, often very detailed records in our database. And we are expanding our networks since 1997!

Recruiters typically don't recruit from their clients. As a highly specialist firm we encounter much fewer 'off-limit' issues than our more broader oriented colleagues from the large firms.