Become the candidate
Strategic advice on your next move from the headhunter who wrote the book. For senior leaders ready to stop applying and start being sought after. Led personally by Suzie Walker.
A PRIVATE 1-1 COACHING PROGRAMME WITH SUZIE WALKER
opportunities find
Why talented leaders stay stuck
80%
Two senior leaders with identical CVs go for the same role. One is offered £280,000 plus package. The other doesn't get the role at all.
The difference is never qualifications. In 28 years of executive search, with more than 1,000 placements and over £200 million in packages, I have watched it play out hundreds of times. The successful candidate is not the most experienced person in the process. It is the one who understands how senior hiring actually works, and positions themselves accordingly.
Around 80 percent of the best senior roles are filled through headhunters, relationships and direct approaches, before they are ever advertised. If your search strategy is applications and job boards, you are competing for the leftover 20 percent against hundreds of people who look exactly like you.
of the best senior roles are filled through headhunters, relationships and direct approaches, before they are ever advertised
1,000+
leadership placements behind the methodology
£200m+
in compensation packages facilitated
From invisible to inevitable
With 1-1 coaching, you will learn what makes you worth a premium, have it documented the way search firms actually assess it, and be running a plan that puts you where senior appointments are really decided. Not theory. Your situation, your market, your next role.
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Your value decoded
A one-sentence Professional Value Proposition that makes decision makers lean in, plus the evidence behind it, written by the people who present candidates to boards for a living.
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The search firm verdict
An honest assessment of how the market will read you, where you would be screened out, and the gaps to close first. The truth a headhunter would tell a client about you.
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A plan for the hidden market
Your personal plan includes the channels, the relationships, and the actions that take you to where 80 percent of senior roles are filled. Built with Suzie.
Led by the headhunter, not a coach
Suzie Walker has spent 28 years in executive search. She has placed more than 1,000 professionals into leadership roles and facilitated over £200 million in compensation packages, for FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies, private businesses and global private equity firms.
Her Amazon bestseller, The Successful Candidate, set out the system. This programme is the only place she works through it with individuals, personally.
“Reading this book won't change your career. Implementing it systematically will.”
— The Successful Candidate
“Suzie combines integrity, insight, and a deep understanding of the senior marketing and digital landscape.”
Sophie Devonshire · CEO, The Marketing Society
“She is unmatched at helping the remarkable people find remarkable roles.”
Ali Hanan · Founder and Executive Director, Creative Equals
Built on The Successful Candidate
AMAZON BESTSELLER
The 1-1 coaching programme implements the system from Suzie's bestselling book: the Seven Strategic Moves developed across thousands of real hiring decisions, from decoding your value to claiming your territory in the first 90 days. Suzie’s Amazon bestseller, The Successful Candidate, set out the system. This programme is the only place she works through it with individuals, personally.
A copy is included when you join and if you've already read it, the programme is where the implementing starts.
FAQ
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Not at all. You'll get a copy when you join, and the programme includes Suzie's Seven Strategic Moves video series, which teaches the system episode by episode alongside your sessions. Most participants have read it (it's why they apply) or attended the webinar, but the programme assumes nothing.
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Suzie personally leads your sessions.
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No, and it's important you understand why. UK law (rightly) prohibits charging candidates for finding them work, and we'd never do it. The programme is career coaching: the system, the positioning and the plan. SWES's search work remains entirely separate and is always paid for by employers, never candidates.
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No, and be wary of anyone who will. What we can say: the methodology is the one Suzie has watched succeed across 1,000+ placements, and you will finish with a written positioning report and a plan that most senior candidates never have.
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There’s no ongoing commitment, you can book on a pay-as-you-go basis, as and when you feel a session would be useful.
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Yes — many do, through outplacement or settlement budgets. We invoice employers directly and the programme qualifies as career coaching and outplacement support. Your employment lawyer can usually write it into a settlement agreement.
QUESTIONS
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The Successful Candidate Programme is a career coaching service provided by Suzie Walker Executive Search Ltd. It is not an employment agency service and no fee is charged for work-finding.