Executive Search Consultant

EXECUTIVE SEARCH · PARTNER PROGRAMME

At 50, you are not an outdated model in executive search. You are the product.

Your network. Your insight into people. Your freedom.

There is a profession where everything you have built up over 25 years counts: your network. Your intuition for people. Your ability to recognise within five minutes whether someone fits a role. Your presence on the phone. Your joy in selling, going out, closing deals. This profession is called Executive Search. And it rewards exactly what corporations tend to overlook after a certain age: experience, maturity, and an address book you cannot buy.

The misconception many have

Most believe that the big career is over at 50. The opposite is true. In executive search, the best years often start then – because trust, network, and judgement do not decline with age, but increase. You are not selling software that will be outdated tomorrow. You are selling your judgement. And it has never been better than now.

What you will do

You go out. You talk to people. You win your own clients, manage your own mandates, find the right minds for the right roles – and get paid for being good at what you love most anyway: working with people and doing business.

Freedom – for the first time on your own terms

You decide on your clients, your time, your market. You work from wherever you want – from the office, from home, on the move. No reporting to people who do not understand your business. No waiting for approvals. You work for yourself, not for a corporation.

And you don’t start from scratch

The only catch with self-employment is usually that you have to build everything yourself: brand, CRM, website, processes, database, AI. Not with us. You get an executive search system with AI-supported matching, an established brand with which you appear like a large firm from day one, and personal start-up support from the founder. You bring the network and the will. We bring the foundation of over 20 years.

Who we are looking for

Personalities. Not CVs. People with a real network and the desire to use it. Those who enjoy selling. Those who go out instead of waiting. Those who at 45, 50 or 58 do not think about stopping, but about the next chapter. If you nodded while reading, we mean you.

The next step

We deliberately award only a few partnerships per year. No mass. Entrepreneurs. If the thought of finally letting your network work for yourself won’t let you go – then let’s talk. Without obligation, confidential, clear.

Marc Thurner

Managing Director / Owner · Extendis AG