How we work
The rules every search runs on
What a hiring leader and a senior candidate ask before they share a brief or a CV. Each rule below is enforced by the system that runs the search, not promised on a slide.
How a confidential search is run
01
A confidential search never names the employer in public: the advert reads "Confidential".
Your competitors and your own team do not learn of the search from us.
Where this is enforced
Public adverts and the jobs feed (careers employer name)
02
What a candidate tells me is kept apart from business development: a candidate who later moves to the hiring side is approached about hiring only with their separate consent.
A search you share with me is never used to sell to the people in it.
Where this is enforced
Movers: the hiring-side consent check before any approach
03
Market figures I publish carry their source, date and sample; a hiring index cell under 20 postings and an observed pay figure from fewer than 5 people are never printed.
A number from me can be checked, and it never points back at one company or one person.
Where this is enforced
The figure registry and the publishing thresholds
For candidates
01
Everyone who enters a search hears the outcome within 5 working days of the decision.
No silence after an interview: yes, no or not now, in writing.
Where this is enforced
The candidate closure ledger
03
Your package is used only in aggregate, from 5 or more people who agreed to it, rounded to USD 5,000, and never shown per person.
Sharing your package helps the market read; it never identifies you.
Where this is enforced
Observed pay on the salary guide
04
A call is recorded or transcribed only after you say yes ("This call is recorded and transcribed by an AI assistant, is that OK?"); from Dubai that yes is needed on every call.
Say no and the call goes ahead with handwritten notes.
Where this is enforced
Call recording consent rules by country
How your data is held
01
Personal data is held under the UAE data protection law (PDPL) and UK GDPR, for recruitment only, under a notice you can read before you agree.
You know what is kept and why before anything is kept.
Where this is enforced
Candidate notice, version 2026-11-08.v3
02
You can see, correct, withdraw or delete what is held by emailing lloyd@millerandwoodall.com; deletion is completed within 30 days.
One email, and the record goes.
Where this is enforced
Erasure requests from the candidate page and by email
A question before you share?
Email lloyd@millerandwoodall.com for anything about your data, or read the salary guide to see how published figures carry their source and sample.