What to Expect
After sending your resume to Bluespeed
First and foremost, you can expect complete confidentiality from the entire Bluespeed Team. We cannot emphasize this enough. We understand the vulnerabilities of sharing your personal and professional information with anyone. Unauthorized sharing of your information is not only potentially damaging to you and an invasion of your privacy, it would be detrimental to Bluespeed’s cherished reputation as an ethical and honest search firm. We NEVER send your information ANYWHERE without your specific consent. Further, it is simply against our core business philosophy, which is to provide qualified AND interested applicants to our clients.
You will receive a reply that we have received your resume. Do not worry if don’t currently have a match today. We will retain your information on our air-tight, secure servers, allowing you to be one of the first candidates contacted when a match does arise. We have state-of-the-art, customized, industry-specialized software that allows us to find you in a speedy manner. Even if you are not actively seeking new opportunities today, you can feel safe in providing us with your career and contact information in order to be notified of any relevant positions open within our network of client companies and industry contacts.
Bluespeed also promises to garner a thorough understanding of your previous accomplishments. We read beyond your “Objectives” and “Keywords” to learn what you HAVE done, as well as what you CAN and WILL do in your next position.
At Bluespeed your information is valued, understood and kept in strict confidence. You have nothing to lose in Partnering with Bluespeed as your preferred job-seeking consultant.
When a Match is Identified
Once a potential match is identified on paper, Bluespeed will reach out to you for a detailed conversation about your background, desires and the opportunity. We will be interested in hearing more about the accomplishments noted on your resume, as well as your future aspirations, salary requirements and other particulars. At that point, we will also provide you with detailed information on the opportunity and Client Company, complete with a job description, white papers, websites and any additional information we may have. You will then have time to digest the information on your own and conduct your own research in a comfortable setting. Next, we will work with you to create a compelling presentation of your abilities and desires to submit to our client. Finally – and ONLY with your blessing – we will submit the presentation as an official introduction to our client. 
After the formal presentation, we will aggressively seek our clients’ impressions of the information provided. We promise that you will be notified within 24 hours of any definitive feedback – positive or negative. Some of our clients’ objections can be overcome through additional dialogue, which we are happy to explore with you. Nevertheless, we at Bluespeed hope to assist in your overall career search by providing you with the exact feedback provided by the hiring company.
After interest is generated on the client’s side, Bluespeed will escort you through the interview process. We will provide interviewing tips and detailed preparation for the various stages of the process, including any insight we have on the individual interviewers. We ask that you immediately contact us after any and all interviews so that we can gather your impressions of the interview, determine if you are interested in proceeding and be able to relay those thoughts to the hiring authority in a speedy fashion. In turn, we will also provide you with the feedback that is provided by our clients to make sure you have a clear understanding of our client’s level of interest and enthusiasm.
At the offer stage, we are experts in shouldering the salary negotiation duties on your behalf. Having an experienced, third-party negotiator can provide a welcome buffer in these potentially uncomfortable discussions. We consistently help candidates and clients come to a point of enthusiastic agreement in these sometimes tense final stages.
It’s Never Over
Bluespeed diligently follows-up with placed candidates and hiring managers to ensure that the on-boarding process is smooth and that any potential issues are addressed early and are successfully rectified. In fact, some of our best client relationships have developed from placed candidates, as they move into hiring manager positions, themselves. Further, we have developed many close personal relationships with placed candidates by continuing to follow-up with them.
