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Full Market Access | Predictable Hiring Outcomes | Proactive Talent Engagement

When Hiring is Easy, Use Your Usual Methods.

When precision matters, search delivers.

Traditional hiring works well—until it doesn’t.

  • If you’re hiring for well-known roles with high applicant volume, your usual methods may be enough.

  • But when roles are niche, urgent, confidential, or require strategic precision—contingent hiring often falls short.

Infographic showing that 90% of hires can be made with traditional talent acquisition methods, but the remaining 10% require search-led hiring.

That’s where DukeMed’s Search Partnership comes in.

  • We bring full transparency, accountability, and market-wide talent access.

  • Instead of waiting for top talent to appear, we proactively identify and engage the best candidates—before they even start looking.

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Why Search-Led Hiring Works

1. The Problem with Traditional Hiring

When it’s hard-to-fill, niche, or commercially critical, standard hiring methods fail:

  • Job ads only reach active candidates (missing 70% of the market).

  • Internal teams are overstretched, delaying critical hires.

  • Multi-agency recruitment creates noise instead of results.

  • A contingent recruiter’s model is designed for speed, not depth.

Most top MedTech professionals aren’t actively looking.

Instead of waiting for talent to apply, search directly engages high-impact professionals before they enter the job market.

2. Why Employers Choose DukeMed’s Search Partnership


A search-led hiring strategy ensures:

✔️ Full market visibility—we don’t just send you whoever’s available.

✔️ Proactive candidate engagement—so you’re never left scrambling.

✔️ A structured, milestone-driven process—from mapping to hire.

DukeMed’s search-led approach identifies, assesses, and pipelines high-impact MedTech talent before roles become urgent.

3. When to Use a Search-Led Approach

  • For revenue-driving commercial roles—where the wrong hire costs growth.

  • For leadership hires—where cultural fit and vision alignment are essential.

  • For niche technical roles—where talent is scarce and competition is high.

  • For confidential hires—where strategic discretion is needed.

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The Search Consultant’s Approach to Talent Mapping

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How the DukeMed Search Partnership Works

​4. Our Search-Led Hiring Process: Key Stages


Mapped. Assessed. Hired.

We systematically map, assess, and secure top MedTech professionals—before they hit the job market.


Market Mapping & Talent Identification

  • We scan the entire market, not just active applicants.

  • You see real-time insights on available talent.

Candidate Assessment & Engagement

  • Every shortlisted candidate is fully screened, competency-tested, and assessed.

  • No wasted interviews. No “spray and pray” recruiting.

Offer Management & Retention Strategy

  • We ensure seamless negotiations, onboarding, and retention strategies.

  • You hire with confidence, backed by data.

From search to signed contract, we handle the full process.
Venn diagram illustrating DukeMed’s search partnership—combining expert-led search, structured search methodology, and data-driven insights.

Future-Proof Your Hiring with Search

5. The Right Talent Strategy Doesn’t Just Fill Roles—It Secures Growth


Traditional hiring is reactive. Search-led hiring is strategic.

By securing high-impact professionals before your competitors, search protects your business from talent shortages.

With DukeMed’s search partnership, you get:

  • A full talent market view—not just who’s available today.

  • A structured hiring roadmap—so you stay ahead of talent needs.

  • A search process built for MedTech’s commercial and technical hiring challenges.

Hiring the Best MedTech Talent Starts Here

Search isn’t just about filling a role—it’s about securing the right people, process, and strategy to drive long-term hiring success.

If you need a faster, more strategic way to hire in MedTech, let’s talk.

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