What makes a Good Executive Headhunter? - Dudley Child Executive Recruitment

A good executive headhunter will add considerable value to the process of hiring a candidate for a senior position, saving recruiting organisations time, money and stress.  In many cases the appointment of an executive search firm is the most effective method of ensuring that the best possible candidate on the market at that specific moment in time is identified and ultimately hired. 

An executive headhunter will carry out all of the key tasks that make up a full recruitment process including advertising, networking and headhunting to identify candidates, before moving onto CV screening and face to face interviewing.

A critical step to this process is an effective client brief which gives the executive headhunter a thorough understanding of the organisation, its culture, its long term objectives and a full job brief. Done correctly, this process will give the executive headhunter the information required to ensure that the opportunity is articulated as effectively and as concisely as possible to potential candidates, thus achieving maximum impact. To capture candidate’s attention and create interest from suitable candidates, this part of the process should not be overlooked. 

Following initial meetings, the executive headhunter will provide a shortlist of appropriate candidates along with a candidate report highlighting how each individual matches the original brief.

Dudley Child’s team of executive headhunters are ideally placed to provide full search and selection services to organisations aligned to the manufacturing and engineering industry.  To find out more about our process, please contact one of our dedicated consultants who will be happy to give you an overview of our services with no obligation.  To contact is please call 0113 246 8882 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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