Headhunting

The headhunting is a word which had totally different meaning in the historical times as com pared to present days meaning. In ancient historical times headhunting was a practice adopted by some ancient civilizations. It did involve cutting off the head of a person. Many a times it was done for the offering for the god or for the showing as prize. In modern days the meaning of the word headhunter is totally different. The people need to find the jobs for their livelihood. There are companies or business entities interested in hiring the people as the employees. The recruiters are the firms and or people who do this job of searching the right kind of employees for the companies. The recruiter is a person or the firm which solicits the individuals to fill a particular job.

There are two types of groups within this broad category of recruiters. The first group works within the organization and or corporations. There is HR division in which these recruiters work as headhunters doing this job of headhunting. The second group of recruiters is brokers or third parties which do this job of finding a suitable candidate for a job and then solicit that person to fill in that job. This process of finding a suitable person for suitable job and offering him that job is called as headhunting. The people or the agencies which do this headhunting work are called as headhunters. Let us try to get more info regarding this topic of headhunting in this short article on this topic.

There are clients who are interested in hiring good qualified people as their employees. They are called as clients. There are different individuals who are suitable for doing specific jobs offered by these companies. The headhunter agency is offering these jobs to the particular candidates. There are part time and full time jobs. The headhunting agency can be specialized agency in any type of headhunting or might be doing headhunting of both types. When the headhunter agency wants to find out a particular type of suitable candidate, then it must have lot of contacts within that industry. This executive search is a very detailed and complicated work. Many a times the companies are interested in getting the people working for the competing or rival business companies in their company.

The headhunter agency will have to carry on a discrete search for the candidates of the competing companies. They have to gain the trust of the candidates working in rival companies. They have to induce these candidates for leaving the present job and join the new company. All this is a very long, time consuming procedure. The headhunting process requires professionals also. The head hunting agency will have to do the executive search, and then they have to interview these candidates. After confirming that these candid dates will offer the value to the client company, they have to offer them good offers. When the process of head hunting is complete these headhunting agencies get form 15%to 35% of the basic annual salary of the candidate as the compensation for their job of headhunting.

Linus Orakles
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