How an Executive Recruitment Consultancy Finds the Right Candidate
There are five major ways or “service lines”, by which executive recruitment consultancies home in on the right candidate for a job. The more of these service lines an individual recruitment consultancy uses, the higher its hit rate tends to be in terms of providing completed assignments within the time frame originally specified by the client.
All service lines are tailored according to the brief given by a client. The tailoring process involves two stages – first selecting the right service lines for the job in hand; and then structuring the chosen service lines so they work as well as possible for this particular job.
The first service line run by an executive recruitment consultancy is familiar to us all. Advertise and recruit, which follows the normal pattern of posting adverts in national and trade press and then recruiting based on the returns garnered from the advert. In this service strand a recruitment consultancy will advise on all creative content and ad placing before conducting a series of preliminary interviews and passing a short list of appropriate candidates through to the client. Final interviews are also managed by the executive recruitment company.
The second strand is known as hybrid advertising. Hybrid advertising, which was pioneered by successful UK company Prism Executive Recruitment, involves conducting an advertisement and interview campaign as detailed above, but with the addition of a targeted candidate search within existing companies and competitor areas.
A flexible recruitment consultancy will also be able to conduct a database search to find suitable candidates for a client company. Where the client either wants a very rapid placement, or requires frequent new candidates from a pool of guaranteed quality, the no placement no fee database search can prove extremely rewarding.
Large scale project support or multiple vacancy management can be supplied by executive recruitment companies where the client is experiencing a heavy volume of newly opened posts. This fourth service strand can be run by a competent recruitment organisation either as a one off project or as an ongoing outsource management initiative.
The last strand to be offered as a regular service by a consultancy company is the team move. Team moves have become increasingly common as successful, proven segments within organisations look to consolidate themselves in more challenging territory – or where a company seeking to provide a new level of service to its customers seeks to attract the skills of an existing, working unit.
A top quality executive recruitment consultancy is able to manage and broker all team moves. A big part of the team moves service provided by a recruitment consultancy is its ability to make sure that every member of that team understands the potential stages involved in moving from one organisation to another. Once the team has been met with to frankly discuss every option open to them, the recruitment company will deliver a set of potentially interested parties and structure the move from this point.
Author Bio:
Prism executive recruitment consultancy offers recruitment services for management consulting jobs, executive recruitment, recruitment consultancy in systems integration and outsourcing markets throughout UK.
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