Manoeuvre | Search Sprints
Precision search for your unique needs
A Structured 21-Day Talent Search Sprint
I offer a high value talent search service to growing businesses in Auckland, leveraging a 15 year network and a structured 3 week process. I believe every job deserves a tailored search sprint because every business and individual is unique. I’m passionate about matching your unique needs with someone’s unique personality and capability, so you can go off and flourish into the future.
Your Search Partner
My name is Michael Sharpe
I have worked in recruitment for 16 years, including 15 years with leading global specialist recruiters, Hays and Robert Walters. I filled hundreds of jobs across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Accounting, allowing me to cultivate a broad and interesting professional network.
I started Manoeuvre to offer a high quality search service to my professional network and partner with growing New Zealand businesses. I don’t seek to dominate any specific professional niche. I want to offer a tailored search service that delivers exceptional value.
You focus on running your business. Let me handle the search.
My Approach to Search
I believe finding the right talent requires a consistent process. I manage every assignment personally, ensuring a hands-on, highly considered search approach:
Crafted campaigns: Writing and designing campaign assets for Seek and Social Media
Market mapping: Search and outreach to passive talent via LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Reading every CV. I don’t believe in using AI to screen human beings.
Crafted qualification questions: screening via phone and email.
Long-list for consultant interviews: Detailed, face-to-face interviews for long-listed candidates.
Shortlist for client interviews: Justified recommendations of who to meet and why.
THE 21-DAY Search Sprint
A structured, milestone-driven model designed to deliver a high-quality shortlist within a clear 3-week timeframe.
Sourcing
Week 1
Job Briefing Meeting: Establishing needs, criteria, process and culture
Campaign Launch: Designing and launching custom advertising across SEEK, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Market Mapping: Creating a targeted candidate map and initiating direct outreach to passive talent.
Selection
Week 2
Read every CV
Crafted qualifying questions
Long listing for consultant interviews
Shortlisting for client interviews
$1,500 Shortlist Fee
Signature
Week 3
Interview Management: Scheduling, briefing and debriefing 1st and 2nd round client interviews.
Due Diligence: Conducting reference and compliance checks.
Offer Management: negotiating and signing employment agreements.
Placement Fee: 12% of base salary (payable on candidate start date)
Contingent Search
A traditional, outcome-based recruitment service. No scheduled deliverables, payment on start date.
Contingent Assignments are the domain of Specialist Professional Recruitment firms like Hays and Robert Walters, where I worked for 15 years.
These businesses manage databases, and seek to dominate a narrowly defined niche, like qualified accountants within manufacturing, technology sales people within SAAS or business advisory services accountants within public practice firms.
If you maintain and manage a database of one specific type of professional within one industry, it’s great if you need that specific kind of person. Chances are, if you speak with a true specialist, and you’re hiring in their patch, they should be able to recommend specific candidates on your first call. It’s great when it works.
You need a person. They send you someone you can meet tomorrow who ticks all of the boxes. You sign a contract, then they charge you 15-25%.
The downside of this approach is, their whole business model is based on having the right person to sell you on day 1. If you ask a public practice recruitment specialist to find you an underwriter or a sales specialist to find you a marketer, they will be unlikely to invest time and money in conducting a thorough search for you. They will find another client to sell their top candidates to.
Contingent recruitment is a game of probabilities, so recruiters focus on their highest probability transactions, without committing to milestones and deliverables throughout the process.
Nevertheless, if you would like to engage me on a contingent basis, my fees are as follows:
Under $75,000 Base Salary: 12.5%
$75,000 – $99,999 Base Salary: 15.0%
$100,000 – $149,999 Base Salary: 17.5%
$150,000+ Base Salary: 20.0%
Fees are payable upon successful candidate placement and agreement execution.
Let's Discuss Your Hiring Needs
Whether you require the focused execution of a 21-Day Sprint or a traditional contingent search, I am here to support your hiring strategy.