Executive Search Committee

The Scoring Tool for Executive Search CommitteesNot a $60,000 search firm. Just the part where your committee evaluates and decides — together.---Coming SoonContact Dan Johnson at [email protected] to be notified when we launch---What Is an Executive Search Committee Scoring Tool?An executive search committee scoring tool is software that lets the members of a hiring or board search committee independently score candidates against a shared set of criteria, with every score visible to the committee chair in real time — without emailing spreadsheets back and forth.ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is exactly that, and nothing more. It does not post your job. It does not collect applications through a portal. It does not run background checks or send offer letters. It is a single-purpose tool for the part of an executive search where your committee evaluates candidates and reaches a defensible group decision.---Your Executive Director Just Left. Now Your Board Has to Run a Search.For most nonprofit boards, this is the most consequential decision they will make in a decade — and most board members have never done it before.The executive director resigned, retired, or moved on. Suddenly a board of volunteers — people with day jobs, who serve a few hours a month — is responsible for finding, evaluating, and selecting the person who will run the entire organization. There is no HR department. There is no system. There is no playbook sitting in a drawer.A retained executive search firm would charge $40,000 to $80,000 to manage this. Many boards can't justify that — or don't have it in the budget. So they do it themselves: a search committee of four to seven board members, a stack of resumes, a scoring rubric someone built in Excel, and a group email thread that gets more tangled by the day.That's the moment ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is built for.---How Search Committees Score Candidates Now — and Why It Breaks DownMost volunteer search committees manage candidate evaluation the same way: the chair builds a scoring spreadsheet, emails it to each committee member, waits for responses, chases the members who haven't replied, receives sheets back in different formats, and then manually combines everything into a master document before the deliberation meeting.This process has predictable failure points. Committee members lose the email or score on paper and never transcribe it. Two members compare impressions before scoring independently, which quietly undermines the integrity of the evaluation. The chair can't tell where things stand until every sheet is back. The loudest voice in the room ends up steering the decision because there's no structured record of what everyone actually scored before the discussion started. And if the selection is ever questioned — by a board member, a rejected candidate, a funder, or a regulator — the documentation is a patchwork of emails and mismatched spreadsheets that nobody can reconstruct.ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com replaces this entire process with a single shared platform where every committee member scores independently, in real time, and the chair sees every score the moment it's submitted.---How It WorksSet up your search in minutes
Create your evaluation criteria, add your candidates, and invite your committee members by email. Your search is live and ready to score in under 30 minutes — no IT department, no training session, no onboarding call.Every committee member gets their own login
Each member scores candidates independently, without seeing other members' scores first — preserving the integrity of the evaluation. No shared passwords, no one anchoring on someone else's number before forming their own judgment.Score from anywhere, on any device
Board members score on their own schedule — at their desk, on their phone, between meetings. No need to gather everyone in one room just to fill out a scoring sheet.The chair sees everything in real time
One live dashboard shows exactly who has scored, who hasn't, and where every candidate stands. No more emailing committee members asking whether they've sent their sheets back.Custom evaluation criteria for your search
Set up whatever rubric your committee agrees on — leadership experience, fundraising track record, financial management, mission fit, cultural fit, communication skills, or any combination. Weight the criteria however your search requires.Built-in notes and comments per candidate
Committee members add written comments alongside their scores. The chair sees every comment in one organized view — not scattered across a dozen email threads.Clean export when you're done
When your committee finishes evaluating, export a complete record of every candidate, every score, every reviewer, and every comment — ready for your board presentation, your meeting minutes, or your files.---Simple, Honest Pricing$199 per search.One flat fee per executive search — not per committee member, not per candidate, not per month.Unlimited committee members. Unlimited candidates. 90 days to complete your search from the moment you start. No subscription. No annual contract. No surprise fees when you add another board member or another candidate to evaluate.Pay once, run your search, and you're done. The next time your organization runs a search, pay again.---Who This Is Built ForThese are the organizations ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com was designed around.Nonprofit boards hiring an executive director or CEO — volunteer boards facing the most important decision the organization will make in years, without the budget for a retained search firm and without an HR department to lean on.Foundations and community organizations selecting new executive leadership, where the board search committee needs a clean, defensible process and a documented record for the full board and funders.Religious congregations and faith-based organizations calling a new senior leader, where a search committee of lay members evaluates candidates against agreed criteria over a multi-month process.Associations and member organizations hiring a new executive director, with a search committee drawn from the board or membership scoring candidates remotely.Cooperatives, credit unions, and mutual organizations selecting senior executives through a board-led committee process that has to be transparent to members.Small and mid-size colleges and schools hiring a head of school, president, or senior administrator through a search committee, without the central HR infrastructure of a large university.---Who Could Use ThisBeyond the organizations above, ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com works for any group that evaluates a slate of candidates through a committee of independent reviewers on a fixed timeline.Public boards and government commissions hiring a city manager, superintendent, library director, or agency head — where the selection process is subject to public scrutiny and must be demonstrably fair and well documented.Hospital and healthcare boards selecting senior executives or medical leadership through a committee that needs structured, defensible evaluation.University faculty and administrative search committees evaluating candidates for faculty positions, deanships, or senior administrative roles against a required rubric.Corporate boards and hiring panels running a structured, multi-evaluator process for a senior hire and wanting every panelist's independent assessment captured before group discussion.Volunteer and community organizations of any kind selecting paid leadership through a committee of board members or stakeholders.Any search committee where the chair has ever said: "Everyone just score the candidates and send me your sheet" — and then spent two weeks chasing responses and reconciling spreadsheets.---How ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com Compares to Retained Search Firms and Applicant Tracking SystemsRetained executive search firms manage the entire search on your behalf — sourcing candidates, screening, reference-checking, negotiating, and advising the board throughout. They are valuable, and for large organizations or highly specialized roles they are often worth the cost, which typically runs from $40,000 to well over $80,000 for a nonprofit executive search. ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com does not replace what a search firm does.Applicant tracking systems and HR platforms manage the full hiring lifecycle — job posting, application collection, candidate communication, compliance tracking, and onboarding. They are built for organizations with HR staff and ongoing hiring volume, and they carry the price and complexity to match.ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com does one thing: it gives your committee a shared platform to evaluate and score candidates together, then produces a clean record of how the decision was made. It does not source candidates, post jobs, collect applications, or send offers. If you need a firm to run your whole search, hire one. If you need a full HR platform, buy one. If you already have your candidates, you have your committee, and you just need a better way to evaluate them together — ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is $199 per search.---What Is the Right Way for a Search Committee to Evaluate Candidates?The most defensible executive search process has three characteristics: independence, consistency, and documentation.Independence means each committee member evaluates candidates without knowing how other members scored them. When members see each other's scores first, or compare impressions before scoring, the evaluation collapses toward the loudest or most senior voice. A sound committee scores independently and compares results only after every member has submitted.Consistency means every candidate is evaluated against the same criteria, weighted the same way, by every member. When committee members apply different standards to different candidates, the result is impossible to defend if the selection is ever challenged.Documentation means the committee keeps a clean, complete record of who scored what, when, and why. If a board member, a rejected candidate, or a funder ever asks how the decision was reached, the chair should be able to produce a clear record — not reconstruct it from memory and old emails months later. For public boards and organizations subject to oversight, this documentation is not optional.ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is built to produce all three. Independent scoring by design. Consistent criteria applied uniformly to every candidate. Automatic documentation of every score and comment, exportable at any time.---Not for EveryoneExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is not the right tool if you need to source candidates, post your opening to job boards, collect applications through a branded portal, run reference and background checks, or have a firm manage your search end to end.If you need a full-service search, a retained executive search firm is built for that — and for the right organization and role, worth every dollar. If you need a complete hiring platform, an applicant tracking system is built for that.ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is built for the board or committee that already has its candidates, already has its committee, and just needs a better way to evaluate them together and document the decision.If that's you — this is your tool.---Built by the Team Behind JurorSearchExecutiveSearchCommittee.com is a product of JS Applications, the team behind JurorSearch — the real-time collaboration platform used by trial attorneys to evaluate jurors during jury selection.The problem is the same: a group of people who need to independently evaluate a pool of candidates, coordinate their assessments in real time, and reach a defensible group decision under a deadline. JurorSearch solved it for courtrooms. ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com solves it for search committees.Same architecture. Built for the committee that just needs to get this right.---Coming SoonExecutiveSearchCommittee.com launches soon at $199 per search — unlimited committee members, unlimited candidates, 90 days to complete.If your board or organization is running an executive search and you want to be notified when we launch — or if you want to tell us what you need this product to do — contact Dan Johnson at [email protected].---ExecutiveSearchCommittee.com. The scoring tool for executive search committees.A product of JS Applications — also the team behind JurorSearch, ScholarshipCommittee, TheRosterHub, ProposalScoring, FCPAHub, WeNeedToPick, and TheSeasonHub.