About

Gary Chaplin has spent more than 30 years in recruitment, the majority of it in Executive Search.

After working with a number of established search firms, he founded his own Executive Search business in 2012 with a simple objective: to do things differently.

His approach has always gone beyond matching experience to a job description. Skills matter, of course, but so do personality, chemistry, ambition, motivation and cultural fit. Understanding all of them is what makes a successful appointment.

Over the years Gary has also become a well-known voice in the executive recruitment market and a trusted source of candid career advice to senior executives.

The move into outplacement came naturally.

Clients Gary had recruited for began asking him to support executives leaving their businesses – people they valued and wanted to help make a successful transition into whatever came next.

That created an important distinction between Outplace and conventional outplacement providers.

Gary isn’t an outplacement consultant trying to understand the executive recruitment market. He’s a headhunter already operating within it.

Every week he speaks to employers, boards, investors and senior executives. He sees how businesses recruit, why people get shortlisted, why others don’t, what makes an approach compelling and how the senior employment market is changing.

It means the advice given to executives is current, practical and grounded in the real world.

There are no standard programmes and no conveyor belt.

Just experienced, straight-talking advice, tailored to the individual and focused on helping them make the right next move.

Ready to talk about what comes next? Contact Gary.