Headhunter - A senior recruitment consultant is always the top concern of businesses in the HR industry in Vietnam. This is also the position with the most attractive salary and benefits in the HR industry in general.
If you are aspiring to become a professional headhunter but do not know the specific job? You don't know what the headhunter job description includes? Then you definitely must not ignore this article of Navigos Search.
1. What is Headhunter?
Headhunter is one of the hot positions today, attracting a lot of attention from the human resources community in general. Headhunters are high-level recruitment experts with the task of selecting and screening quality candidates, most suitable for high-end, niche, special or specialized positions for businesses in need.
Headhunter is a senior recruitment specialist
In the context of fierce competition in the economy today, owning talent is always the need of small and large businesses. Headhunters appear as a key to helping talent and businesses find their perfect half quickly and efficiently.
2. The most detailed headhunter job description
2.1. Plan to promote and find customers
If you belong to a department of human resources management, a headhunter may be a small department under the management of the director or head of the human resources department. However, they can still work as an independent representative in an enterprise specializing in providing human resource recruitment services.
In businesses specializing in providing services and human resource solutions, the headhunter's job is not only responsible for the entire plan of sourcing customers to use the company's services, but also for building a marketing plan and promoting personal and business brands to attract a large number of talents to know the business's brand in addition to the activities the marketing department is doing.
These plans will be conducted mainly through social networks and websites based on personal and corporate branding. Headhunter's customers are corporate recruiters and candidates who need to apply for jobs.
To complete this task, the Headhunter's plan is required to be very detailed, based on actual surveys of the recruitment market. This is one of the jobs a headhunter must maintain throughout his career path.
2.2. Collect and analyze recruitment requirements of enterprises
After receiving the request to find potential candidates from corporate clients, the next headhunter’s job is to directly collect the recruitment requirements, expectations, standards and benefits of the vacancy obtained. Then proceed to develop detailed and attractive job descriptions to recruit talent.
With the experience of a professional headhunter, in addition to simply receiving information from the recruiter, they will also exploit other factors related to the business such as culture, values, development potential and working environment to add to the job posting when communicating with candidates. From there, it helps to make the recruitment advertisement more attractive and attract human resources who are both capable and have all the qualities suitable for the business environment.
After collecting and analyzing information, the headhunter and the client will draft a contract and commit to binding conditions to complete the recruitment requirements.
2.3. Contact and send invitations to potential candidates
In parallel with establishing plans to expand orders from businesses, headhunters have an extremely important task in recruiting potential candidates for the position they are recruiting through their channels such as: Data extraction from the company, communication channels, social media, available relationships,... They are responsible for communicating, exchanging detailed information, and sending invitations to apply for potential positions, motivating candidates to quickly decide to change their job.
2.4. Introduce and screen potential candidates
This is one of the characteristics that distinguish headhunter jobs from ordinary HR professionals. The majority of candidates with many years of experience and high capacity are always ready to apply for senior positions. But they do not like to spread resumes too much, but only look to specialized recruitment businesses. And headhunter is one of those addresses. Headhunters will accept applications for senior positions.
Senior human "hunters" will directly screen candidate profiles to find the most suitable person for the vacancies of the business, or introduce those profiles to other customers, other headhunters are needed. After screening resumes, they will contact the candidate directly to discuss more specific jobs, if both agree, the headhunter will send an invitation to interview.
Headhunter is the bridge between business customers and potential candidates
2.5. Interview potential candidates
Interviewing candidates is not only the job of the personnel in the enterprise but also the job of the headhunter. With a large amount of knowledge, experience in the HR industry and the client's field, understanding of the diverse labor market, industry fields, customer requirements, the headhunter will interview candidates before the round one to analyze and give suggestions to candidates before entering the official interview with customers.
Headhunters will schedule, contact and interview high-level candidates. If the candidate is qualified, ensuring all requirements, the headhunter will contact the client business directly to announce the interview results.
Then, transfer candidate information to the enterprise for the second round of interviews. If the business feels that the candidate is really suitable, the headhunting process is officially completed. Headhunter closes the schedule and receives the brokerage fee as on the contract.
2.6. Survey of business satisfaction
As the top talent hunting force according to individual orders, the headhunter is constantly improving its services to match the requirements of customers. After closing the contracts, the headhunter will be the one to directly contact business customers to survey the quality of work, the candidate's attitude as well as their feedback on the headhunter's process to find out if the service satisfies the customer or not. Unsatisfactory points will be enhanced and improved in the next orders.
At the same time, at Navigos Search, headhunters also have a special step in tracking and supporting candidates during their career development journey at the introduced company. In addition, always ask customers to know their difficulties, thereby finding solutions and supporting them.
Typically, a recruitment process for positions lasts from 5 to 6 weeks. With the criteria of selecting the best quality employees, the headhunter is the company's top priority service for senior positions.
You can refer to the current process of Navigos Search to better understand how headhunters work.
3. Criteria to recruit headhunter
Despite being in the top positions of senior personnel in human resource service companies, you will be quite surprised with today's headhunter recruitment criteria. Education or specialization is no longer an entry criterion for a headhunter. Instead, you can start as a business person, a recruitment specialist of a certain company or even a diplomat or media person.
However, in order to shoulder the difficult tasks of a professional head hunter, you need to possess long-term recruitment experience, close relationships with the senior human resources of many businesses. In particular, it must be a profound convergence of the qualities and skills required of a top-notch human resource specialist and a talented business expert.
The nature of the headhunter's job is to do human resource services and find the optimal HR solutions for business orders. Therefore, when applying for a job, a headhunter needs to demonstrate his or her communication skills, and understanding of the labor market or industry.
Criteria to be a good headhunter
Besides, the headhunter will be a professional recruiter. Therefore, this requires "headhunters" to possess communication skills, screen resumes, job postings and interviews.
A headhunter also needs to have good search skills and data extraction capabilities. Moreover, they are also visionaries who know how to select candidates based on their qualities and strengths, not making decisions based on emotions. And finally, because it is an office job, it is imperative that the headhunter be proficient in computer software to serve the job well.
If you are looking to "land" in the headhunter job, the above sharing of Navigos Search is a road map to help you conquer the path to becoming a high-level recruitment specialist as expected.
The opportunity to apply and become a Navigos Search employee is always open, if you have a dream and ambition to become a ferryman in the field of human resources, do not hesitate to contact and leave your resume for us from today. Good luck!
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