FileFinder & RecruiterWEB

Active assignments in FileFinder can be published to your RecruiterWEB website automatically. When your firm takes on a new retained search, the role appears on your website with the detail you choose to make public. Job title, sector, location, seniority level, and a role summary display on your site. When the assignment is filled or withdrawn, it disappears from your website without anyone touching the CMS. Your website always reflects your current portfolio of active searches.

When a senior professional submits their details through your RecruiterWEB website, whether applying for a published assignment or registering speculatively, their information is pushed into FileFinder. Contact details, career summary, uploaded CV, and any additional form data arrive as a candidate record your research team can immediately access, search, and link to relevant assignments.

Executive search candidates do not browse job boards. They register with firms they trust, often speculatively, to ensure they are considered when the right opportunity arises. Your RecruiterWEB website provides a professional, discreet registration experience that feeds directly into FileFinder. A managing director exploring their next move submits their details on your website at midnight. By morning, their record is in FileFinder, searchable by your research team, and available for matching against current and future assignments.

Executive search operates differently from contingency recruitment. Not every assignment should be public. RecruiterWEB gives you full control over which assignments appear on your website and how much detail is shown. Confidential searches can be listed with sector and seniority only, without naming the client. Some assignments may not appear on the website at all. You decide what is visible. FileFinder remains the master record for everything.

RecruiterWEB builds search functionality into your website, letting visitors filter published assignments by sector, function, seniority, location, and salary band. A CFO exploring opportunities in life sciences finds relevant assignments without scrolling through a generic job list. A non-executive director looking for board positions in the North West filters to exactly what they want. The experience matches the seniority of your audience.

Published assignments on your RecruiterWEB site are automatically formatted with the structured data Google for Jobs requires. Senior roles appear in Google's job search results alongside contingency listings. This gives your published assignments visibility in a channel that most executive search firms ignore entirely. Every application flows back into FileFinder.

Applications and registrations submitted through your RecruiterWEB website are tagged with source data so your reporting in FileFinder accurately reflects your website's contribution to your candidate pipeline. You can see exactly how many senior professionals your website attracts versus referrals, direct approaches, networking, and other channels.

Your website does not just attract candidates. It attracts clients. When a CEO, HR Director, or board chair searches for a retained search firm in your sector and finds your website, the enquiry they submit can feed directly into FileFinder's client CRM. Your business development team sees the inbound lead immediately, with full context, without checking a separate email inbox.

Executive search firms sell expertise, reputation, and market knowledge. Your website should demonstrate all three. RecruiterWEB supports long-form content, market insights, sector commentary, and leadership articles that position your firm as a trusted authority. Every piece of content builds your SEO footprint and attracts the kind of senior professionals and client decision-makers who would never respond to a job board advert but will read a thoughtful article about leadership succession in their sector.

The candidate experience on an executive search website must match the seniority of the audience. RecruiterWEB builds a professional, discreet interface. No garish job board aesthetics. No aggressive pop-ups. No "sign up for job alerts" banners aimed at volume candidates. Clean design, measured content, and a registration process that feels appropriate for a board-level professional considering their next career move.

FileFinder handles your candidate data, assignment management, and communication workflows. Your website handles your online presence and candidate experience. RecruiterWEB does not build candidate login portals because they create GDPR compliance risks and add friction that reduces registrations. Senior candidates submit their details through clean, simple forms that feed data straight into FileFinder where your research team manages it.

Every RecruiterWEB plan includes Design Studio as standard. You can build landing pages, event pages, market insight pages, and content pages yourself without waiting for a developer. Every page you create works alongside your FileFinder integration, and every enquiry or registration generated from those pages flows into FileFinder automatically. Hosting a leadership roundtable? Build the event page in Design Studio and capture registrations that land in your database.

Many executive search firms have a five-page brochure website that has not been updated in two years. It lists the partners, describes the firm's approach, and provides a contact form. It does not rank on Google. It does not appear in AI search results. It does not generate inbound enquiries or candidate registrations. RecruiterWEB builds a website that actively works for your firm: ranking for the searches your candidates and clients are making, publishing your assignments where they can be found, and converting visitors into database records in FileFinder.

RecruiterWEB builds sector-specific pages that pull relevant assignments from FileFinder automatically. A page targeting "executive search financial services" or "board appointments technology sector" displays the assignments that match, with supporting content that positions your firm's expertise in that vertical. When a candidate or client arrives on that page, they see a firm that specialises in their world. When they engage, their data enters FileFinder.

Executive search firms that rank on Google for sector-specific and function-specific searches generate inbound business that their competitors do not. RecruiterWEB builds sites with clean architecture, fast load times, structured data, and content strategies designed to win organic search visibility. The better your site ranks, the more senior professionals find you, and the more client enquiries arrive without cold outreach.

AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are increasingly used by professionals researching executive search firms. When a CHRO asks an AI tool to recommend retained search firms in their sector, the firms with structured, content-rich websites are the ones that get cited. RecruiterWEB builds sites that are AI-readable. SEO ranks your page. AI cites your page. Both channels feed senior professionals and client decision-makers into your FileFinder pipeline.

RecruiterWEB operates on an upgrade path model. If you start on a Start-up or Themed plan and later move to a semi-bespoke or fully bespoke design, your FileFinder integration carries forward. Nothing is thrown away. Your assignment feed, your candidate registration flow, and all the SEO equity your site has built continue working exactly as they did before, in a new design.