01Open a search with Halftone
Eleven fields and one paragraph — that's the whole intake. We read every brief the day it lands, sharpen the role with you on a 30-minute call, and start sourcing against a calibrated comp range drawn from our own placements.
02The recruiting model
We answer every brief — never a parsed-and-punted form submission, never a chatbot triage. The recruiter who reads your intake is the same recruiter who calls the slate.
Once your intake lands, a senior recruiter on the relevant desk reads it the same day and books a 30-minute call. We sharpen the role, the team, and the comp band so the brief you source against is not the brief you wrote on a Friday night.
Our comp data comes from placements we have personally negotiated and closed — not Glassdoor, not a salary scraper. Vertical-specific, split by market and hire type, refreshed every quarter. Candidates enter the conversation knowing what the role is worth in their market; the hiring committee has shared numbers, not a moving target.
Most senior mandates have a slate within two weeks; contract and freelance move faster. Every brief ships with NDA-grade confidentiality by default, and our executive-search tier keeps the company name private until shortlist stage. Direct hire, contract, freelance, and contract-to-hire all run through one partner — you keep the same recruiter across hire types.
The short version
Five sentences on what a Halftone engagement looks like, written for a hiring committee that wants the answer in thirty seconds.
03Tell us about the role
The fields below are the same ones a senior recruiter would ask in the intake call. Filling them in well compresses the search — the better the brief, the tighter the shortlist.
The company name stays on the brief unless you choose the executive-search tier. The contact is who we reply to. The discipline and seniority place your search on the right desk and the right ladder.
Comp goes in as the annual base range you have authorized, in whole US dollars. Location is one line — a city, "Remote — US", or a market shorthand. Confidentiality is the closure default — or a switch into NDA-grade territory.
What is the role for, who does it join, and when does it need to start. That is the whole thing we need to read. Tell us about the work — the agency or the brand, the studio or the platform — and the brief will sharpen itself on the intake call.
04Brief us
Eleven fields, one paragraph, no account, no password. We respond within one business day, every brief. Your company name stays on the brief unless you select the executive-search tier below.
We don't share your brief past the desk. NDA-grade confidentiality by default; NDA on request. If you'd rather pitch a confidential mandate by email, write halftone-talent@polsia.app.
ClosingDirect line
Introduce the search by email when the situation is sensitive — a confidential mandate, a multi-role hire, a referral you want to flag. One inbox, read every weekday by a senior recruiter on the desk the brief will land on.
Halftone desk
halftone-talent@polsia.appEmployer intake — read every weekday by a senior recruiter on the desk your brief will be sourced against.