# Buyer reference

- URL: https://kitalent.com/insights/guides
- Language: en
- Family: tier_index
- Description: Buyer-facing guides on evaluating executive search firms, choosing engagement models, confidential hiring, cross-border leadership, PE-portfolio CFOs, and procurement-grade vendor selection.

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# Buyer reference

This page gathers the firm's buyer-facing guides on senior search. Each piece is organized around a specific decision: how to choose a firm for a specific situation, how to evaluate engagement-model trade-offs, how to assess what makes a senior search succeed or fail. Recommended reading order is roughly top-down — the procurement guide first, then the situation-specific guides.

The guides are written for buyers, not for candidates. They assume the reader already knows they need to hire and is now figuring out how to run the process or how to choose between vendors. For more conceptual content on what makes a senior search work, see the editorials. For documented engagements, see the case studies.