Search Ahead

Searchahead is a Swedish executive search consultancy based in Stockholm, working with chefsrekrytering (executive recruitment) and related services. The firm acknowledges that many organisations have become capable of recruiting independently but require support in specific areas of the recruitment process, whether developing initial candidate lists, providing second opinions on candidates, or maintaining overall recruitment process management.

The company offers Executive Search services for VD (chief executive officers), ledning (leadership), and styrelse (board) positions through identification and evaluation of candidates via networks of tipsters and referral sources. Searchahead also provides Search Light services as a streamlined variant of full executive search tailored to individual client situations, and Assessment services involving competence-based interviews, personality and aptitude testing, external reference checks, and background verification for independent evaluation of candidates, leadership groups, and boards.

Searchahead works across most industries but holds specialist expertise in consumer goods and services sectors, having conducted executive recruitment for both large multinational corporations and smaller entrepreneurial growth companies. The firm emphasises looking beyond curriculum vitae to understand how individuals have approached and achieved their past roles, ensuring alignment between candidate capabilities and organisational needs.