Bristol Search Group

Bristol Search Group, often shortened to BSG, is an executive search and recruitment firm that concentrates on roles employers struggle to fill. Its model ties each search to a target hire date: if the deadline is missed the fee is reduced, and if the person hired turns out to be a poor fit, the firm finds a replacement.

What Bristol Search Group offers

• Executive search: senior and director-level searches, such as a head of an engineering and analytics team.
• Specialist recruitment: hiring for critical-skill positions that general agencies find hard to fill.
• Dedicated consultants: each position gets its own search consultant, who works on only one search at a time.
• Hiring guarantee: replacement of a candidate who does not work out, plus a lower fee when the target date passes.

Customers and markets

The firm says its consultants have worked with companies of every size; client quotes come from senior executives at an education publisher and a financial technology firm.

Key facts

• Consultants: each has at least 10 years of search and recruitment experience
• Approach: one consultant per role, backed by management oversight and recruitment technology