The search methods of headhunters include horizontal search, vertical search, circular search and curve search, which are the basic means of headhunting companies. For these search methods, headhunting consultants must use them flexibly.
Headhunters identify customers' needs by analyzing the job content, except hard indicators, such as age, gender, education, working years and so on. It is also necessary to deeply understand its hidden needs, such as the work style of candidates.
In addition, headhunters also need to understand the company's corporate culture, management style and other content. Be able to describe the development trend and prospect of customers in the industry to talents, and impress candidates by improving the attractiveness of positions. The more detailed you know, the more leisure you will have to search in the future.
After understanding and digesting the work content, the next step is to make a search plan, sort out other well-known enterprises in the same industry according to the target company that customers like, draw an architecture diagram, accurately locate the department of the target position, and conduct a purposeful search.
At the same time, we should also make full use of the company's talent pool, recruitment websites and other channels to find talents. Headhunters should also make communication records in the process of searching. Because every time you communicate with a candidate, you can have a further understanding of the overall situation of the candidate, and it will be more accurate to continuously analyze and quantify these recorded data, and then make subsequent recommendations.