Executives Place has launched a free-to-join, online community for high-earning individuals where members are anonymous and in full control of their own privacy.

Member data is limited to the minimum information required by search firms for identifying potential candidates, so members can create a profile that is searchable by their individual credentials without disclosing their identity.

According to executivesplace.com, this protects members’ privacy and prevents them receiving unsolicited friend requests and junk mail.

Additional value for members is an online directory of individual executive search consultants. This allows clients and candidates to find the individual consultant with the right experience for specific sectors.

Potential clients can make better decisions about which consultants to use by reading the comments and ratings given by former clients and candidates, thereby bringing an element of third-party review to the choice of search firm or consultant.

Joseph Blass, director, Executives Place, said: “While Executives Place is focused on the executive, we believe that we are providing an important service to the search consultants themselves. The rating system allows good search consultants to be noticed by all our members – candidates, clients and other search consultants.