Head hunting, direct search is one of the recruitment methods that can provide worthy employees direct from the labor market.

When direct search is a good method to acquire candidates?

• When a company has very strict and specific requirements about potential candidates and the likelihood that they would answer the advertisement is minor.
• When very rare skills and specific experience is required from a potential candidate.
• When a given group of candidates is hard to reach in a conventional way, because, for example, they work on contract abroad or in a remote site without internet access.
• When a company wants to acquire candidates directly from its market rivals.

Head Hunting`s potentialities:

Thanks to Head Hunting we can reach candidates who are not looking for a new job at the moment. This circumstance can be very helpful in finding the right person.

Head Hunting can be a measure of successful closing the recruitment that has been so far conducted with conventional methods without satisfactory effects.

If desired, Head Hunting can maintain good relationship with Clients` market rivals during acquirement of candidates from them. It is after all our head hunter who contacts and negotiates with employees form another company, not the Client himself.

Head Hunting can help to change an offer proposed to potential candidates in such a way the offer is more properly adjusted to current market standards in a given industry.

The candidates see Head Hunter as a “business card” of the Client.

Everyone who outsources direct search has to be aware that head hunter, who is an employee of commissioned agency, would be for some time viewed as a “business card” of the company looking for staff. The Client will be shown to the candidates through head hunter`s professionalism and way of business conduct

It should be remembered that headhunting process is difficult and specific. Head hunter has to reach people performing particular function, when he often doesn`t even know their names. It is essential that the person who performs a direct search is discreet, and he / she would give his Client`s name away too soon. At the same tame such a person should be able to arouse candidates` interest so that he would be willing to spare his time on the interview.

The way head hunter treats his candidates – also those “difficult” or not interested with the offer at all – will be a reflection of Clients future treatment of potential candidates.

Good head hunter is also creative person who is always open to every possible ways to acquire a candidate.

By choosing an experienced head hunter to perform a direct search project Client can expect to obtain some market information concerning for instance financial expectation of candidates from particular position or industry. These information would allow to change the offer so that it would meet with market standards. A good head hunting company should be experienced in direct searching, because it would already have a wide network of contacts and secondly and it would be more business-aware.

A good head hunter, thanks to his market knowledge, can even during his first conversation with the Client point out every potential drawbacks of the offer, that an inexperienced person wouldn`t even notice. The purpose is of course to save time and money that would have been spent on ineffective search for potential candidates.