How is ATAQ Research different from Retained and Contingency search services?
ATAQ Research is not a search service. The value you receive from most search firms begins and ends with a placement, especially when using them to fill individual contributor positions. There is rarely any residual value. ATAQ Research is a research service, providing you with background and contact information on your most desirable candidate pool. That is, candidates working in positions and companies defined by you; people who will be great candidates for your company today and in the future. For example; you want to assure that your recruiting message is delivered directly to the embedded software development teams from four of your top competitors, and you want the background and contact information on those that are open to taking your call, or considering your company in the future. ATAQ Research makes it happen. You are then free to mine this candidate information indefinitely, at no additional cost, ever, whether the information results in one hire or five. Unlike Retained an
