Substance over scale.
Laudale was founded in 2013 on a straightforward belief: that our first obligation is to clients and candidates - to guiding them through key moments, with their interest ahead of our own.
Alec Laurie, Founder
I've worked in software engineering and architecture search since 2004, starting in the .NET developer market, and quickly establishing an interest in senior and leadership hiring.
I started Laudale because I wanted to operate the way I believed a search firm should - where the client's interest comes first, where the work is done without shortcuts, and where trust is earned by being consistently dependable.
The most satisfying moments in this job are when a client reaches out not with a brief, but for counsel - a sounding board, or a view on something they're working through. When a leader reflects years later that a move changed the direction of their career; when the relationship outlasts the search by a long way.
I lead every search personally. A researcher supports me behind the scenes, and that's the extent of it. The people you meet at the start are the people doing the work.
I'm also willing to be checked. On any serious engagement I'll share contact details for three clients and three placed candidates from comparable searches, and you choose which of them to speak to. It's more useful than a page of anonymised case studies, and it reflects the accountability I'm prepared to take.
I'm based in Cheshire, ten miles south of Manchester. Most of my work is across the North West and the M62 corridor, though I take a small number of searches nationally each year.
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