Ludwig Financial Recruitment

You face an industry-wide "Catch-22". You are responsible for generating top line revenue. You are a producer. You need to hire more people on your team, but you are so busy that you do not have the time to do it, and every minute that you take away from revenue generation hurts your firm and your own performance. Ludwig Financial can help. We will never bombard you with resumes – we would rather send you no one than send you candidates who are not well-qualified for the job. All of our candidates have been interviewed in person by Ludwig Financial, and will only be sent to you if they meet your explicit and detailed specifications, saving you time and helping you keep your eye on the top line.

Ludwig Financial views a face-to-face meeting at this stage to be critical to saving our time and your time so that we can thoroughly understand your needs. We will go over the detailed specifications you need in candidates, and we will also get deep into your firm's (non-confidential) strategy, culture and differentiating features. If you can and if relevant, we will ask you to supply us with copies of your marketing material – whether a "pitch-book" or print materials, it is critical for us to understand how YOU market yourself, as we will wind up being the first line sales approach on your behalf with our candidates. Our candidates are among the brightest and the best, and they will want to know as much information as possible before consenting to have their resume forwarded to you.

Ludwig Financial will then conduct a candidate database search to generate a list of candidates suitable for your mandate. Our recruiting software is state-of-the-art, and will flag candidates based upon your criteria. We will then review the profiles of the candidates on the report and contact those that best meet your criteria. If the candidate is interested in your opportunity, we will then forward the candidate's resume to you together with our personal observations on the strength of the candidate and a detailed review explaining the rationale behind the candidate's job moves and the reasons that the candidate is seeking to change firms.

We will then set up a confidential interview for you and the candidate. Please note that for senior candidates, especially those who are currently engaged at a competing firms, we may have to take strict precautions to maintain the candidate's confidentiality, such as holding the meeting at Ludwig Financial's office, restricting the dissemination of the candidate's resume and even providing the candidate to you on a "name-only" basis where the candidate is well-known to you and is very concerned with confidentiality. All of these steps help to reassure the candidates that their confidentiality will be maintained, with the result that candidates are more likely to come forward, with the result that you will see more high quality, qualified candidates.

After interviews have been completed and you have decided to make an offer to a candidate, it is up to you as to whether or not you want to "close" the deal with the candidate on your own or use Ludwig Financial to help facilitate and get the deal done. By developing a high level of expertise in this areas of comp and supply/demand of talent, Ludwig Financial can help sides quickly get to where they need to be. Ludwig Financial has actually been engaged in the past to help close on candidates that we have not submitted, such is the level of expertise that we have developed in bringing top candidates and firms together quickly and efficiently.