Choosing a Semiconductor Recruitment Agency: 7 Questions to Ask

1. What share of your work is semiconductor or photonics?

If it is a minority of their business, their network will be shallow.

2. Who have you placed in roles like this?

Ask for comparable placements by function and stage, and for references you can actually speak to.

3. Who will run my search?

Find out whether the person who pitches is the person who calls candidates. Founder-led searches avoid hand-offs to junior resourcers.

4–7. Process, exclusivity, geography and fit

Ask how they assess technical depth, how they handle confidentiality, whether they can search across the UK, Europe and the US, and how they define success after the hire starts.

Good partners will happily answer all seven. Hesitation is a signal in itself.