Do you need the best candidate for an executive or specialised management position in your company? Someone who will add value, bring innovation, good corporate governance and extensive experience to your management team? You need an Executive Search Service --- an Executive Search Consultant or Recruiter. You require someone who knows how to find that elusive needle in the management haystack.
The more popular name for this specialised recruitment service called Executive Search, is “Headhunting”. The term originates from the historic practice of taking a person's head after killing him or her, a grisly practice from the pre-colonial era in parts of Africa, the far East, South America as well as in ancient Europe.
Today this macabre practise is universally prohibited and has hopefully died out. However, the management consulting practise of Executive Search has been dubbed Headhunting because it seeks out the talent and intellect residing in the “heads” of executive and/or specialised management as found in business corporations. It is considered to be the most appropriate recruitment tool with which to source top management talent.
Executive Search versus Advertised Recruitment
Advertised Recruitment describes the process which sources applicants for positions via advertising. The recruiter collects these applications and the unsuccessful applicants are kept on an extensive database and called upon when a similar position opens up.
Executive Search sources candidates via targeted research. This process provides the most suitable candidates by targeting the top 10% to 20% of talented and experienced individuals who are very rarely accessed through the inefficient process of Advertised Recruitment. Executive Search targets those senior level executives that you would want in your organisation. As headhunters we research and approach these potential candidates; they rarely approach us.
Executive Search is, therefore, not to be confused with Advertised Recruitment services. Simply stated, the differences are as follows:
Only Executive Search’s proven research methods can provide an exclusive selection of superb executive talent which will access a short-list of candidates of such quality that selection of the best person is a difficult task.
SPi’s experienced executive search consultants, assisted by proven research professionals, will target, interview and screen the most suitable candidates for you to assess.
We will research the talent. You will decide on its suitability and application to your business.