Octopus Research work directly with Executive Search Consultancies and Talent Directors from FTSE 350 organisations delivering on a variety of C-level and Board appointments as well as providing talent mapping & benchmarking. Search Delivery Working closely with your consultants and partners, we deliver at all stages of a search from the briefing stage to shortlist, providing detailed progress reports and market analysis. We treat every search as unique and when you instruct us, we will start from a blank canvas and a specific talent pool is built for the engagement. You will always have confidence that the talent we are engaging is current, has received a consistent message on the brief and has been fully benchmarked against the ACID test - our focus is to deliver quality and not numbers. We can also work directly with your research function to provide a variety of training sessions and perform an assessment of your search processes. Talent Mapping We help organisations map the market for outstanding talent, either for benchmarking their own capability or to identify a more diverse talent base. Our work helps organisations in identifying new opportunities to balance their existing talent with new skills and capabilities required to meet their strategic goals and vision. The aim is to deliver robust market intelligence, allowing organisations to make important talent decisions for the