Independent executive search · Europe

The best people aren’t looking.
I am.

From the Latin perspicax: clear judgment. The ability to see through.

I personally hunt, test and deliver the candidates job boards and algorithms will never show you. One brief, one hunter, the right hire. And if I don’t place, you don’t pay.

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4 years of placements 6 European markets 4 industries Shortlists of 3, never 30 No placement, no fee

Why you are reading this

Hiring has never produced more noise, or less signal.

A single job posting now brings hundreds of AI polished applications that all read the same. Your team burns weeks screening people who were never right. The tools promised efficiency; they delivered an avalanche.

Meanwhile, the person you actually need is employed, excelling, and not applying to anything. No algorithm will put them in your pile, because they are not in any pile.

Recruitment automated everything except the part that matters: judgment. That is the part I sell.

Big firms answer with databases and junior researchers. Platforms answer with more volume. I answer by going out and getting the person, one handcrafted search at a time.

Who

Anna Albertella, Founder of Perspicana

One name on the door. One name on every shortlist.

I am Anna Albertella, an independent search consultant. For the past four years I have hunted, vetted and placed senior and critical talent across Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland, in logistics, technology, entertainment and food & beverage, for organizations from global names like DHL and FedEx to ambitious scaleups.

What I know is people.

What they want, when they hesitate, when they are not telling the whole truth, and whether they are ready to put everything on the table. Industry expertise can be briefed in an afternoon. Reading people cannot. That is why the same skill that placed supply chain leaders also placed engineers, commercial directors and creatives.

I learned this business at full speed.

I entered corporate recruitment with zero experience and was my firm’s top performer within six months. That learning velocity is now what every client buys: give me a new industry, a new market, a new brief, and I will master its landscape before the first candidate conversation.

6European markets
4Industries placed in
8Languages spoken
1Person accountable

What

Search, taken personally.

When you engage Perspicana, the person you brief is the person who maps your market, approaches the candidates, runs every interview and stakes her name on the shortlist. No juniors, no handoffs, no database leftovers. Four things make that worth your time:

The Hunt

Your next great hire is employed, excelling, and invisible to job boards. I build a fresh target list for every brief and approach the best matching people directly and discreetly. No posting. No waiting.

The Read

Anyone can match keywords. I read motivation, honesty and appetite, in real conversations, candidate after candidate, until the picture is true.

The Proof

I refuse to pretend I can judge a craft that is not mine. Industry experts build role specific assignments; candidates on my shortlist have demonstrated the skill, not described it.

The Stake

No placement, no fee. My name is on every shortlist and my fee arrives only when the right person says yes. The risk is mine; the result is yours.

How

The Albertella Method

Seven stages, the same every time, visible to you at every step. You will never have to ask what is happening with your search, because the answer arrives in writing before the question.

1

The Deep Brief

A working session, not a job description handover. We define the problem this person must solve, the skills that are truly non negotiable, the personality your team actually needs, and what exceptional looks like versus merely adequate. Half of failed searches die here. Mine start here.

2

The Market Map

Before a single approach, you see the landscape: who holds this role at your competitors, what they earn, what their scope covers. Intelligence you keep, whatever happens next.

3

The Hunt

I build a fresh target list for this brief and approach the people who match it, personally and discreetly, typically dozens of qualified professionals per search. No recycled database has ever produced your best hire.

4

The Conversations

Real interviews, not screenings: motivation, trajectory, honesty, appetite. In every exchange I act as ambassador for your brand; senior professionals end my searches thinking better of your company than before.

5

The Proof

Industry experts design role specific assignments to test hard skills. Candidates who reach your shortlist have proven the craft, not promised it.

6

The Shortlist of Three

Not thirty CVs. Two or three people, each interviewed in depth, tested, referenced and documented in a dossier covering skills, motivation, compensation expectations and my honest read, including my reservations. If I have doubts, you hear them from me first.

7

The Landing

Offer strategy, negotiation support, resignation coaching for the candidate (where most searches quietly die), and structured check ins through onboarding. The search ends when your hire is thriving, not when the contract is signed.

✓
The standing promise: weekly written progress updates, full transparency on the pipeline, and one person accountable for everything, from the first brief to the ninetieth day in the seat.

Proof

Judged on outcomes, nothing else.

All three were very, very good. You did a great job with your research. We want to see all three in a final round.

Markus · FedEx

She found us a unicorn in three weeks. We had been looking for four months.

CTO · Technology scaleup

Industries

Logistics & Supply Chain Technology & IT Food & Beverage Entertainment Your industry: brief me

Markets

Spain Netherlands Germany France Belgium Switzerland

Roles I am trusted with are the ones that hurt when they go wrong: country managers, commercial and sales directors, operations and supply chain leaders, plant and site managers, senior engineers, finance leads. If an empty seat is costing you money every week, that seat is my specialty.

The stake

No placement, no fee.
Not a discount. A statement.

Big firms ask for a retainer before they have earned anything. I ask for nothing until the right person has signed your contract, because in four years I have learned I do not need a safety net. You are not hiring me because I am cheaper. You are hiring the only person in the conversation willing to be paid purely on results.

Success fee only

A transparent percentage of first year compensation, invoiced only on candidate acceptance. The full structure is on the table in our first call; no surprises, ever.

Replacement guarantee

If your placed candidate leaves within the guarantee period, I run the replacement search free of charge. I stand behind every landing.

The Market Map, standalone

Not ready to search? Commission the map alone: who holds this role across your market, at what compensation, and how hard the hire will really be. Fixed fee, credited in full against a future search.

And if a search stalls?

Then we fix it together: sharpen the brief, widen the map, adjust the package. I do not give up and I do not disappear, and there is no extra charge for persistence. In this practice there is no such thing as a search abandoned.

Questions, answered straight

Ask me anything. Clients always do.

Why not just go to a big recruiting firm?

Because at a big firm, the partner who charms you in the pitch hands your search to a junior researcher and a database. With me, the person you brief is the person who hunts, interviews, tests and delivers. I take few searches at a time precisely so each one gets a fresh pipeline and my full attention. It is not about numbers; it is about the right match.

Why don’t you specialize in one industry?

Because a label is not expertise. Saying “I focus on pharma” would not make me a pharma scientist. What I am expert in is people: what they want, when they are not telling the whole truth, and whether they will put one hundred percent on the table. Even an identical job title at two competitors is two different briefs. So every assignment starts from scratch: no pre searched candidates, no “this guy might fit”, only a specific hunt for your specific match. The technical judgment I delegate to industry experts who build the skills tests; that honesty is built into the method.

What if you fail?

There is no version of this where I shrug and walk away. If the search stalls, we diagnose it together: sometimes the brief needs adjusting, sometimes the search needs widening, sometimes the package or even the job title needs rethinking. We do it together and we find the match. Persistence is included in the fee, and the fee only exists if I succeed.

How fast will I see candidates?

You will see a market map and a search plan within days, and a tested, documented shortlist in weeks, not months. The exact timeline depends on the role and market, and I will commit to a date in writing at the brief, then keep you updated every single week until it is met.

Will you represent our brand well to candidates?

In every search I speak with dozens of senior professionals in your market, and each one of them forms an opinion of your company through me. I treat that as a responsibility: discreet, respectful, accurate. Candidates I approached years ago still take my calls, and that is exactly why your shortlist will include people nobody else can reach.

How do you handle confidentiality and data?

Every brief is confidential from the first word, whether or not we proceed. Candidate data is handled in full GDPR compliance: clear consent, secure storage, defined retention. Confidential and replacement searches are run with additional discretion protocols agreed at the brief.

Start a conversation

Your competitors hope the right person applies.
You could just send me a brief.

Fifteen minutes is enough to tell me about the hire that is keeping you up at night. You will leave the call with my honest read on how hard the search really is, what the market pays, and whether I am the right person to run it. If I am not, I will say so.

Every conversation is confidential. No obligation, no follow up avalanche, no mailing list.


Founder & Search Consultant · Perspicana
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