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Thunderclap | Advertising and Marketing Recruiter

When you bring business development strategies to recruiting, it's the perfect storm for success.

Benefits / Value

Working with Thunderclap gives you access to hard-to-reach, proven candidates, lowers your time-to-fill and internal cost-per-hire, drives efficiency and helps demonstrate your agency’s diversity commitment. This kind of success happens because we work very closely with our client agencies. Our new business background helps us identify the right candidates and effectively “set the table” in terms of how a position can positively impact someone’s career. Our background also helps us ensure candidate functional and cultural fit for your agency.

But there are other reasons why agencies like partnering with us.

  • Gain outside perspective. We’re in the talent market every day, all day. Our informed, insight-driven view can help differentiate your agency, properly market the position, and help ensure your new professional generates a faster impact on agency revenue.
  • Leverage our ad agency expertise. Thunderclap’s leader, Steve Congdon, brings over 25 years of agency experience to your search. This can decrease time spent on any particular search, increase candidate quality, deliver better prepared candidates and lower time-to-fill.
  • Access our pipeline of connections and intel. Thunderclap’s proprietary database is filled with over 1,500 resources that can help your firm. This includes senior-level clients, agency professionals, search consultants, press, and friends. It represents a pipeline of learning, new business leads, referrals and, of course, terrific candidates! This confidential database is unique, customized and accessed on a daily basis. It gets stronger with time and is now over 15 years old.
  • Lower future recruiting costs. “Birds of a feather flock together” is appropriate here. Work with us to find your next great leader. And then, ask your new Thunderclap hire for referrals. Once you hire those potentially like minds, reinvest the recruiting savings into retention programs to keep your staff aligned, engaged and… well, keep them around.
  • Keep the search confidential. While there are many reasons you should consider working with an outside recruiter, keeping a search quiet, contained and controlled may be particularly noteworthy. This is particularly relevant in CEO/President, discipline head or new business leader searches. When you can’t afford a loss in momentum, service and thinking on client business.
  • Ensure a professional, consistent and positive candidate experience. This often gets overlooked as agencies brief five contingency recruiters for one search. Each recruiter has different sourcing practices, different ways of working with candidates and different approaches to their business. This can impact search efficacy for you. And impact current and prospective candidates in the marketplace, thinking and talking about your agency. This has short-term impact and long-term impact on agency reputation, future referrals and retention.
  • Mitigate the risk of a bad hire. Making a hiring mistake can be costly. Particularly at the senior level, when one professional can have a greater impact at an agency. Leveraging Thunderclap’s experience and expertise helps avoid hiring mistakes and provides another smart, informed opinion on what the candidate brings to your agency.

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What Others Say

  • "Thunderclap was a great partner in our search for a business development leader. They were thoughtful and transparent throughout the search and took time to understand our organization at a very deep and authentic level. Never once did it feel like a rehash of candidates who tick boxes on paper. Each candidate they presented was thoroughly vetted to our needs and our organization which made the entire process a pleasure. I look forward to working with Thunderclap on future hires."
    Director of Talent, New Business Leader search, mid-sized agency
  • “My search was for a new business leader at a mid-sized regional agency. While candidates are open to relocating to that market, it’s not on everyone’s radar screen. Steve Congdon at Thunderclap gave me a terrific candidate that the agency loved. She’s now on their Executive Leadership Committee.”
    President, leading southeast US recruiting firm
  • “We gave Thunderclap a search for a Senior AE that needed agriculture experience, which is hard to find. And they delivered."
    Senior Recruiter, regional office, global agency
  • “I’ve given Thunderclap several recruiting assignments over the years across three departments: account management, planning and new business. It’s a pleasure working with them. They know our industry and our agency very well. Their candidates fit our requirements and I know they’re a cultural fit when they come from Steve's firm.”
    Managing Director, multiple searches, global network agency
  • “The agency was looking to hire a new Group Account Director that was going to be on a plane every week. Steve found just the right professional for this Top Ten Holding Company Account. I had several great options and they were well prepared.”
    Recruiter, Group Account Director search, global holding company agency
  • "After briefing Steve on what was needed, his company was able to quickly source several well qualified candidates that matched the jobs specs. Thunderclap screened them and submitted the best of the pack. One was hired and continues to be one of our top performers. Couldn't be more pleased with Thunderclap's quick response, professionalism and [I] look forward to working together again."  
    Recruiter, New Business Leader search, 300-person holding company agency

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