Complex recruitment · direct sourcing and search
The rabbit hunts for you!
A dried-up market, candidates who don't read job ads: whether the role is highly technical, regulated, in short supply or on the executive committee, we go after the people who aren't looking, with a strategy built for your market, your position and your culture.
A mandate story
A biotech position stuck for 8 months
- Situation
- A biotech company was opening a new site under construction, under heavy regulatory constraints and strict confidentiality.
- Roadblock
- The profile had to hold all the required pharmaceutical certifications. Eight months without a single matching candidate.
- Breakthrough
- Market mapping brought out a profile taking a few months' break. A role in the region close to their heart won them over.
- Result
- Position filled in 5 weeks.
A distribution network with no permanent contract to offer
Brand ambassadors recruited among independent professionals.
Read LuxuryA client relations position filled in 4 weeks
A video showing the role in action, sent before the first conversation.
Read Volume110 hires in 7 months, including 11 managers
A European after-sales team built from scratch.
ReadIn figures
Source: TheWhiteRabbit Sàrl internal figures 2026, direct sourcing and search mandates.
What clients say
“The quality was already there, and on our latest hire we felt a real step up: highly professional work, very thorough screening reports.”
“Natacha combines a truly analytical mind with unwavering loyalty. Our long-standing collaboration lets us bring on board profiles our competitors are fighting over.”
Recruiting without market mapping is like flat-hunting from the ads in the estate agent's window. We walk your whole neighbourhood, building by building.
Your challenge, our answer
What we hear most often
How it works
A trio: HR, hiring manager and TheWhiteRabbit
Scoping
A conversation with your HR team to understand your vision, your culture and the way you work.
Intake meeting
45 minutes with the hiring manager to pin down the stated and, above all, unstated expectations, the real scope of the role and the business stakes.
Market mapping
A detailed map of your ecosystem and target market: who to look for, and where.
Weekly sourcing sprints
Direct approach, rigorous pre-screening, ongoing feedback. You hear from us every week.
Shortlist and market intelligence
Motivated, pre-screened candidates, with a market report: appetite for your role, available talent pools, pay benchmark.
One complete offer
One mandate, one flat fee
Search with onboarding follow-up
The full mandate, from scoping to hiring, with follow-up after the person starts.
- Scoping and intake meeting
- Market mapping, longlist and weekly sourcing sprints
- Shortlist and market intelligence
- Follow-up at 1 month, 3 months and at the end of the probation period
- Probation guarantee: if the person hired leaves before the end of probation, whether they or you end it, we replace them. It has happened once in 7 years, and the mandate ended well.
We commit to results. The mandate is offered at a single flat fee, announced at our first conversation and not indexed to the position's salary. The first report is scheduled from week two. Across several mandates, fees decrease.
This may not be for you if…
- You want to receive CVs in bulk, with no scoping phase.
- The position is already filled easily through your job ads.
In those cases, we will tell you at our first conversation, and point you elsewhere if we can.
A free snapshot of your market
For a position on your mind: talent pools, source companies and salary range, presented in a first 20-minute conversation.
Request my snapshotA position open for far too long?
Twenty minutes to look at your situation together.