Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained Executive Consultants

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants
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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• A compelling and strong employer brand is vital
  for creating an impact in the job market in order
  to attract the talented employees. The company
  must be viewed as a preferred employer to work
  with.
• When the company hires retained executive
  consultants for identifying and recruiting
  talented employees in the organisation, the
  consultant's approach as well as response to the
  job market can make or break the brand.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• The consultants represent the reputation of the
  employer in the market when it hunts employees
  for it.
• The executive search firm should be such that it
  reinforces the image of the company instead of
  bringing bad name to it.
• Hence, it becomes vital to carefully examine
  before hiring any headhunting company for the
  organisation. Here are the key aspects, you must
  consider

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• Make The Employer's Brand Valuable
• The executive search firms must invest a
  significant amount of time as well as resources
  in order to gain the appreciation of the
  corporate culture and its value.
• The search firm must make the employer's brand a
  sought after thing in the corporate market which
  makes it enviable.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• Communication Between Headhunting Company And
  Candidate
• The employer must ensure that the communication
  between the potential candidates and the
  executive recruiter is open and clear.
• There should not be any doubts in the minds of
  candidates while applying for the job positions
  of the employer's firm.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• The recruiter must respond to each and every
  query put forward by the candidates in a time
  bound manner.
• This way, the search firm can garnish firm
  relationships with talented workforce who are
  searching for good job positions.
• Efficient Recruitment Process
• The search firms must follow an efficient,
  professional and time bound process.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• This is needed because the inefficient
  recruitment process can lead to frustration
  amongst the candidates for the employer's brand
  which in turn will damage the brand's image.
• The interview process must be well structured and
  seamless so that it elicit information from the
  interviewee and thus can allow the interviewer to
  predict the future performance of the candidate.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• Recruiters Do A Good Research Before Contacting
  Any Candidate
• The recruiters must do a good homework before
  contacting any potential candidate for the job
  positions offered by the employer.
• It should not be the case that the recruiter is
  contacting every second job seeker for that
  particular job position.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• The recruiter must ascertain beforehand whether
  that particular candidate will fit in the job
  profile or not.
• If the search firm contacts each and every
  candidate, it does tarnish the image of the
  employer in the eyes of the potential employees
  and they start treating the employer's company in
  a casual manner.

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Executive Consultants

• Ethical Treatment Of The Candidates
• The recruiter firm must be highly ethical when it
  comes to the treatment given to the candidates.
• For instance, if a firm submits any candidate's
  resume to any potential employer without taking
  the consent of the candidate, the practice is
  considered as totally unethical.

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained
Executive Consultants

• The candidate has full right to be informed about
  the employer's name where their resume is
  forwarded and their consent must be taken whether
  they are willing to work on that job position or
  not.
• Such unethical practices can cost the employer
  brand badly as it will reflect a poor image of
  the employer in the mind of the candidates.

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