Recruitment Brief Template
The kickoff document for any serious search — context, mandate and success profile on two pages.
- Estimated time: 12 min
- Updated for 2026
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Recruitment Brief Template
The kickoff document for a search run with a partner — internal or external. It fixes the mandate, the profile and the working rhythm before the first candidate is approached.
Engagement
One name — a search with two owners has none
Open / confidential / strictly confidential — agreed before any outreach
Kickoff to signed offer
The mandate
The change this hire delivers — the search is calibrated against this line
What this person decides alone, and with whom
Success profile and constraints
Proven scope, not aspirations — what must they have already owned?
Companies not to approach, compensation envelope, location constraints
Process and ownership
Every step has one owner and one deadline. Candidates are lost in the gaps between owners.
| Step | Owner | By when | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | |||
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| 03 | |||
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