Recruiting is a process that involves attracting and selecting qualified candidates to fill a vacant position within an organization. Headhunting is a more special recruitment process, which differs from other methods used to attract new candidates and is currently used at a larger scale and by a growing number of companies.
It involves finding and attracting candidates with great experience, highly trained and who have the skills required to occupy a certain position. Unlike traditional methods of recruitment, such as ads on job sites, this includes practices such as attracting candidates from among the competition.
Competition scanning
A first step that headhunters use to identify a potential candidate is within the organizations’ competition. This step may be followed by an invitation to a formal discussion, in which the headhunters might expose the advantages he would have if he would decide to join the competition. If the person is not interested, the headhunter can go on to find another candidate.
The headhunting process requires a lot of patience and requires a special involvement in order to find the ideal candidate, but the results obtained are above those that the usual HR departments, who deal with recruitment, in general, have. Finding an employee through headhunting techniques lasts longer, and many organizations choose to outsource this service to specialized companies.
Headhunting – a hunt for talents
In addition to experience in human resources, headhunters must have deep knowledge about the area in which the employer operates and be aware of the market developments. Also, they must be extremely active in the online environment so that they access media and platforms that potential candidates use and to be in contact with professionals from various companies.
Typically, organizations are turning to companies that offer headhunting services because they are looking for talented individuals with some specific and harder to meet skills. This thing makes the headhunting process sometimes a little difficult and involves a scan of the entire industry in advance, and a thorough knowledge of the organizational culture of the employer.
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