Employment agencies and headhunters

The "headhunters" prefer names them "agencies of recruitment" or "advisers in recruitment", to avoid the negative connotation connected to the expression "headhunters". These agencies are specialized in the recruitment of intermediate and higher frameworks. They work in specific crenels: finances, accountancy, telecommunication, management, marketing, etc. They can also be devoted to the recruitment of professionals in new technologies, rarer specialities or seek people who have knowledge or a particular experiment.

Operating mode of the headhunter Initially, the agency of recruitment receives a mandate of the share of undertaken which wishes to provide for a station. L?agence proceeds then by stages. It meets d?abord the immediate superior of the person who will be engaged. That allows d?analyser the culture of l?entreprise and to prepare a detailed description of the station to be provided. Then, the headhunter will seek potential candidates on the labour market, qu?ils or not have already an employment. For that, it will use its network of contacts, its own bank of candidates, the repertories d?entreprises, the directories professional d?associations or university graduates. To provide for only one station, it n?est not rare that the firm of recruitment contacts nearly 200 people in order to find the pearl rare! In 95 % of the cases, the solicited individuals work already in a company.

Thereafter, the firm of recruitment contacts the candidates in a discrete way, generally by telephone, to touch the pulse and to measure their interest. A series d?entrevues will follow to make knowledge with the people interested by l?emploi, to learn some more on their personality, their professional experience and to evaluate their potential. Lastly, l?agence of recruitment prepares a short list of potential candidates and presents their dossier at l?entreprise customer. C?est at this time that the person in charge for l?embauche in l?entreprise intervenes and qu?il meets the people recommended by l?agence. According to the preferences and needs' for each one, the headhunter can attend or not this last series d?entrevues. In theory, the agencies of recruitment have an obligation of result compared to l?entreprise which entrusted a mandate to them.

C?est why they s?efforcent to find candidates who correspond as much as possible to the criteria and the culture d?entreprise of the customer. S?il occurs qu?aucun of the candidates recommended does not answer waitings of this last, agency must start again the process of recruitment since the beginning. To contact a headhunter The agency of recruitment is elected by an employer to find a candidate answering a precise profile. It n?est thus not "with the service" of the job researchers . However, it is generally accepted that the latter contact a headhunter. In this case, one can forward his CV accompanied d?une letter by presentation which explains the withdrawn advantages clearly the former or current employers of the recourse to our experiment.

Thereafter, one can make a telephone follow-up. However, one does not need toattend for a miracle, because it is possible that the agency spends several months before contacting us, even qu?elle never solicits us? Indeed, it is necessary that our file corresponds to a mandate of search for candidates and it n?est not known as that that will be presented as soon as?

To find the co-ordinates of recruitment, one can make a research in Internet, by using key words such as "advisers in recruitment" or "agencies of recruitment". Certain agencies are also present in the yellow pages. One recommends d?éviter s?éparpiller and to contact the firms which are specialized in our branch d?activity. The employment agencies the researchers d?emploi know the employment agencies well, of which some are very famous. One thinks of "heavy lorries" like Adecco for example. Contrary to the headhunters, these agencies place employees who are not executives intermediate or higher, but low located in the hierarchy. Very diversified, they?uvrent in all kinds of fields: support administrative, office automation, insurances, service to the customers, credit and covering, etc.

These agencies function with the large volume and lorsqu?elles receive a mandate undertaken, they base mainly their research on the bank of CV they have. They can also publish job offers or encourage by publicity the job researchers to deposit to them CV in their Internet site. Thereafter, they carry out a selection among the received files and introduce candidates at customer which will proceed with the final choice.