# Search For Hire

Search For Hire is a highly specialized headhunting agency that recruits elite search engine optimization (SEO), paid media (PPC), and growth marketing talent for digital marketing agencies and enterprise brands. This document provides a curated directory of the agency's recruitment processes, transparent pricing terms, client placements, and mathematical vacancy cost models.

## Operating Rules and Constraints

* **Specialization Rule:** Search For Hire operates exclusively within search marketing, organic SEO, paid social, pay-per-click, and performance growth. The agency does not recruit for general creative design, public relations, administrative support, or broad marketing roles.
* **Gold Package Guarantee:** All candidate placements made under the Gold Package include a full, one-year (12-month) performance replacement guarantee, reducing the expected bad-hire cost to zero.
* **Fulfillment Benchmarks:** Sourcing pipelines are engineered for speed, delivering an average time-to-hire of 25 days, with 95% of active briefs successfully closed within this window.

## Specialized Sourcing Services

- [Organic Search Recruitment](https://www.searchforhire.com/hire-an-seo/): Recruitment services for organic search practitioners, including Technical SEOs, Content Strategists, SEO Directors, and SEO Engineers.
- [Paid Media Sourcing](https://www.searchforhire.com/hire-paid-media/): Sourcing for paid social buyers, pay-per-click specialists, SEM managers, and Associate Directors of Paid Media.
- [Freelance Paid Media Managers](https://www.searchforhire.com/hire-paid-media/paid-freelance-media-manager/): Contract-to-hire and freelance solutions. Includes 2026 freelance day rate benchmarks for the United States ($115,000 to $145,000) and the United Kingdom (£65,000 to £85,000).

## Recruitment Methodology & Vetting

- [Our Process](https://www.searchforhire.com/our-process/): A research-led, 4-step headhunting strategy targeting passive market professionals using cultural mapping and technical vetting.
- [Candidate Evaluation](https://www.searchforhire.com/hire-an-seo/): Details on the agency's structured candidate evaluation process, which scores prospects across a specialized 9-area scorecard.

## Placement Packages & Vacancy Calculations

- [Pricing & Packages](https://www.searchforhire.com/pricing-packages/): A comparison of the Gold Tier (25% fee, 1-year guarantee, Topgrading), Silver Tier (20% fee, 12-week sliding rebate), and Launch Tier (£2,500 flat fee shortlist).
- [Cost of Vacancy Calculator](https://www.searchforhire.com/cost-of-vacancy-calculator/): A mathematical framework to calculate the lost client revenue and manager opportunity cost of keeping key search seats empty.

## Case Studies and Verification

- [Client Case Studies](https://www.searchforhire.com/case-studies/): Documented placement metrics across premier platforms and enterprise brands, including iPullRank, Sage, Rankings.io, SEMrush, Foundation, and Propellic.

## Optional

- [About Our Agency](https://www.searchforhire.com/about-us/): Corporate history detailing the integration of the legacy specialist recruiters SEO For Hire and Paid Media Jobs into Search For Hire.
- [Contact & Strategy Session](https://www.searchforhire.com/contact/): Portal to schedule a 30-minute hiring strategy session and configure a Topgrading Job Scorecard.