Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained Executive Consultants

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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained Executive Consultants Tel : +86-21-6474-7064 | simon-wan@cornerstone-group.com


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. Tel : +86-21-6474-7064 | simon-wan@cornerstone-group.com


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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Must Examine Key Aspects Before Hiring Retained 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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