When Executive Recruiters Call

Do you receive calls from executive recruiters, also known as headhunters? Do you find it annoying that these executive search consultants are hounding you with job offers? Or is it flattering to be considered of high enough caliber and potential to fit highly specialized criteria? Either way, to know an executive recruiter is to understand one – and to really get to grips with how a headhunter’s job works and what his or her goals are will help you, the senior executive, appreciate the true value of how you might benefit from the retained executive search industry.

An Executive Recruiter might have numerous searches going at any one time, and his or her day will be spent mostly on the phone to clients, candidates and sources. So what parts do different players in all of this?

It’s difficult to believe that recruiters can place up to 6 candidates a month, while taking into account a range of factors from compensation level tolocation. But it’s important for senior executives to understand the inner workings of an executive recruiter’s job, in order to be better positioned to get the best value from retained executive recruiting services. Fully understanding the processes involved in a typical executive search gives you the opportunity to better identify how you can benefit from those regular calls, and make the most of what a recruiter can do for you!

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