Head hunting: lessons for executives

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 - Executive Recruitment, Headhunter


Head hunting: lessons for executives Head hunting is a phrase originally applied to the process of finding and recruiting top talent and executives to fulfil a senior level position, most often in a publicly listed corporation. The fees of the head hunter are high – can be as much as the executive will be paid [...]

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Headhunter or Recruiter?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 - Executive Jobs, Executive Recruitment, Executive Search


Headhunter or Recruiter? One of the errors made in Executive Employment is handing out your Executive CV to everyone who claims to be a Head Hunter. When in actual fact they are a Recruiter or even less on the scale of employment sharks. If you make this mistake, you will at best blight your employment [...]

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Executive Recruitment

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - Executive Recruitment


Executive Recruitment As you probably understand, Executive Recruitment is not like the recruitment for other grades of white collar or management staff. Hence an effective Executive CV needs to address these issues. While in a standard recruitment process you are applying for a defined position, selling your skills against a defined job specification; in Executive [...]

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Which are the main competencies to assess an executive search consultant?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - Career Development, Employment, Recruitment


Executive Search Consultant Adina asks: Which are the main competencies to assess an executive search consultant, and hence what would be found on their Executive CV? In answer: There are certain key skills that they must have, without which they can not perform and hence deliver. The most important skill is communication, that’s in both [...]

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