Reverse Recruiting for Leaders +  Impact Signal Branding©
(For $100K-$299K+ Salary Level)

Executive Market Reality

In today’s market, many executives navigating a search on their own spend 6-12 months securing their next role. This is largely because 70-80% of leadership roles are filled through networks and direct introductions rather than job postings.

EXPEDITE accelerates traction through strategic positioning, AI-driven recruitment marketing, and targeted outreach to decision-makers. EXPEDITE process typically reduces that timeline by roughly half, gaining meaningful traction in 3-6 months, as long as you keep going with our method and outreach. See below.

Closing line: Clients running the EXPEDITE process typically gain meaningful traction in 3–6 months, with executive-level conversations often starting in the first few weeks.

WHY WE NOW BUILD 90-DAY ENGINES AND STOPPED CHARGING MONTHLY

At the executive level, roles come through people. Seventy to eighty percent of leadership positions are filled through networks and direct introductions. Applications are a minor channel up here — they carry a mid-level search; they don't carry yours. And even then, mid-level should be networking equally to applying.

So outreach isn't a phase of your search. It's the engine. And an engine has to keep running. Most executive searches take two to five months, which means the networking needs to be active that entire time — not for four weeks while you're paying premium rates.

That's the problem with monthly pricing, and we know because we used to charge it- $3K a month. A four-month search cost $12K, and what you were paying for in months two, three, and four was a machine we'd already finished building in the first ten days but just kept adding to.

So we asked ourselves, is this efficient? Why not build a larger machine? 

That's when we rebuilt the model around the part that matters. We construct the engine once, load ninety days of outreach into it, and let it keep running. We also teach you to run it if you want to add to it yourself. From there, it costs about $79 a month in software instead of $3,000 in fees (each month). When you need fresh lists, new positioning, or another set of eyes on what's landing, we're one click away - and you buy only what you need.

Same engine. Same networking. Running longer, for a fraction of the cost.

We just stopped charging you rent on something you already own. If you get something sooner, just change the scripts and use it to simply build a larger network so that opportunities will come to you far more frequently in the future.

Why Ascend5 Is Different

Most reverse recruiters focus on finding you your next job.

We use your job search to increase your career value, expand your opportunities, and position you to climb your highest mountain.

1. We Position You Before We Market You

Before outreach begins, we ensure your executive brand signals the highest level you can command.

We position your experience around:

• Your highest level of leadership
• Industry and company scope
• Unique strengths and measurable business impact
• A proven track record of results
• The right language to attract executive decision-makers

Then we develop a Career Capital Growth Strategy™ to identify the companies where your experience creates the greatest value—not just the companies that happen to be hiring.

2. We Build a Precision Executive Pipeline

We don't blast generic outreach to generic lists.

Using AI, recruitment marketing technology, market research, and personalized outreach, we build a targeted pipeline of companies, recruiters, investors, and executives who are most likely to value your experience.

The result is fewer wasted conversations, a stronger long-term network, and more high-quality opportunities—both now and throughout your career.

Our goal isn't just to help you land your next role. It's to increase your career capital so the right opportunities continue to find you.

How the EXPEDITE Program Gets You Noticed Faster

In competitive executive markets, visibility, not effort, determines who gets considered for the best roles. EXPEDITE accelerates that visibility by strengthening your market signal and activating the right decision-maker networks.

Clients gain traction faster through:

Strategic Executive Positioning
We sharpen how your leadership impact is communicated so hiring authorities immediately see the scale of your results, revenue impact, and enterprise value creation. We get you in touch with your business value.

Executive Market Signal
Your LinkedIn, executive narrative, and outreach are aligned to project the level of leadership and scope you should be operating at—making it easier for recruiters, investors, and executives to recognize your value quickly.

Targeted Decision-Maker Access
Rather than relying on job postings, we strategically connect you with leaders who influence hiring decisions - CEOs, investors, board members, and senior operators.

Momentum Through Strategic Conversations
Informational and discovery conversations create visibility and credibility with the right people, often leading to opportunities before roles are formally created.

Hidden Market Activation
Because 70-80% of executive roles are never posted, these conversations frequently surface opportunities months before they appear publicly.

The goal isn’t more applications-it’s more access, stronger positioning, and faster traction in the executive market.

The ROI of Packages

You Will Never Lose Money On Our Packages: It is important to us that we provide our clients with not only the best class of service but also an economically reasonable service. At Ascend5, we are fixed fee recruiting and reverse recruiting experts here to serve individuals and companies. All of our pricing is transparent, and we use fixed monthly fees. We can survive and serve better when we are just paid for our time. This mission-driven woman-owned business is dedicated to helping individuals grow in their careers.  We take every person's job search seriously.

If we were to charge a percentage of your salary once we get you a role, we would have to charge an exorbitant amount of 25-30% of your salary that you would have to pay within 1 month of getting a job (like an external recruiter) because you are a risk - as one person, not a corporation paying us- and the fee is delayed for several months. At the $100K level- that is $25K-$30K.  At the $100K level- we can usually get people into roles by 1-2 months- so $2K-$4.5K instead of $25K-$30K.  We guarantee all our services and offer a free month with different plans if you are not in a role within a few months.

Reporting of Efforts

Email response rate is typically 1-3% today, but LinkedIn outreach is far better. Our clients average anywhere from 8-20% depending on marketability, market variables, and supply and demand of targeted role.  Our clients get fantastic traction!

Reasons why careers stall and people are held back from getting better roles or a value-based salary:

• They are not marketed/branded competitively or clearly and receive little response, lose traction, and eventually their confidence erodes.
• They don't understand their business value and can't align it with the company's needs or convey it when interviewing.
• They feel nervous during the interview, worrying if they're responding correctly because they're using the wrong interview mindset.
• They are not aligning what they want with what the market currently needs.
• They rely on applying for roles versus networking. Jobbots have made this even less effective in the last year.
• They don't network out at the scale needed to find the roles before being posted.
• They are uncomfortable with networking and do not understand the true value of it.
• They focus on landing one role during the interview process but need to be interviewing for multiple at a time in this competitive market.
• They become so worn down from conducting an ineffective job search process, taking low-quality roles and lower salaries, hurting their overall career and total comp trajectory.
• They are waiting for a recruiter to find them a role.

EXPEDITE© addresses these issues to cut your job search in 1/2 and develop the authentic confidence needed to land high-quality roles and better salaries.

See our guarantee here.

Why the math works...

You will never lose money on this.

• Branding and positioning not only justify a higher salary that you deserve ($20K-$200K+)
• Mapping your growth, your career and salary trajectory will also exponentially increase an executive's compensation by $500K-$1M+ over your career.
• Shortening your job search time by 50% using the EXPEDITE method, saving $20K-$100K+.
• An external recruiter charges the employer 20–30% of your salary. At the $200K level, that's $40K–$60K sitting between you and your offer - and it comes directly out of your negotiating room.

What you own on day 30...

Everything. Your target lists, message library, campaign data, tracking system, and the roughly 60 days of contacts still queued - all in accounts registered to you. Plus the Operator Pack: the recorded controls session and a written playbook covering how the sequences work, how to pace sends, when to pause a segment, and how to read what comes back. Nothing stops working if we stop talking.

What we need from you...

Phase 1 Brand: Sixty to ninety minutes on the discovery form and answering what is needed after we develop it and before we jump on your virtual call.

Phase 2 Build & Load: Twenty-four-hour turnaround on approvals and lists

Phase 3: Accountability, Coaching, & Handoff: About two to three hours a week checking your LinkedIn inbox daily once you're live - that's the one thing that can't be delegated. Check what's landing and pause what isn't (30 minutes). Jump on informational calls for potential roles (1-3 hours a week depending on response level). No writing, no research - every message is written, and every contact is loaded before you touch it. Recorded Handoff session takes 30 minutes.