Recruiting at Executive Level.... Getting it Right

Resourcing issues at senior level in many businesses arise more often than you might think.  When a key member of your executive management team moves on, it can often leave a big gap and have an immediate and direct impact on your company’s ability to deliver.  It is therefore important to find the right replacement as quickly as possible, ideally without wasting substantial amounts of precious time on endless interviews of inadequately screened candidates, and maintaining a degree of confidentiality throughout the process.

The answer is a search.  Executive search, or headhunting, is a proactive form of recruitment which involves a direct approach to individuals who have been identified as prospective candidates for a role.  These people are rarely on a candidate database, and aren’t necessarily actively looking for a new job.  Because the approach is selective, the quality of candidates is high and yet there is a minimum amount of information about the vacancy in the public domain.

For headhunting to be effective, executive search consultants need to have an excellent understanding of your requirement, so they will ask you for an initial face to face meeting where they will take a thorough brief.  You may think the commitment time-consuming, but the end result makes that initial investment very worthwhile.

After that meeting, most of your work is done.  You will be asked to approve a target list of organisations where likely candidates will be identified and approached, and agree the projected timeline for the assignment.  Then you can sit back, schedule some time for interviews a few weeks hence, and look forward to seeing some quality people in the almost certain knowledge that one of them will be your next hire!

Contact our Executve Search team today for more information.

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