Home
| Help | Contact

Executive Recruiters   Executive Search Firms UK

Candidates Recruiters Login  

Connect with Executive Search Firms/Recruiters | Executive Packages | About | Join NOW

How Exactly does A Typical
Executive Search Firm Operate?

In business it's always good to know your competition. In a hunt for an executive job, it's good to know about the executive recruiters. The more you know about an executive search firm and executive recruiter, the more you will learn about how to make them pick you for the next job opening they have.

Once a company realizes they have a need, they call in an executive recruiter to fill it. There is a contract between two to accomplish this task. Executive recruiters are either retained, where they get a retainer fee to find the right employee, or work on a contingency, meaning they only get paid if the right candidate is found for the job.

The recruiter will then get to know as much about the position as they can, so create a profile of the person needed to fill that role.

Next, the recruiter takes the profile they have created and looks at the leadership in other companies in the same field, as well as other possible candidates on the market. Each of those candidates is sized up as to how well they would fit the new role.

The new narrowed down list will be shown to the client for approval. 

Now the executive recruiter / search firm will start contacting those potential candidates. These meetings are very confidential as often the recruiter is trying to pull an executive from another company for the open role.

After all the potential candidates are interviewed, in depth reports will be created on each of them, and presented to the client for them to make a choice. 

The last part of the recruiter's job is the negotiation of a final contract. They help in keeping good talks going between the two sides until the company is happy and they can collect their fee.

Click here to find out more about connecting with multiple, targeted, top executive recruiters in your industry in 3 minutes.

Popular Executive Career Articles

Executive Career Change

Salary Negotiation

Cover Letters

Broadcast Cover Letter

Executive Recruiter Network

Calling Executive Recruiters

Executive Resume

Unadvertised Jobs

Executive Job Search

Executive Resume Tip


Career Networking

Executive Search Firm

Executive Recruiter

Executive Recruiters Calling Back

Executive Resume Stand Out

Age and Interview Questions


Connect with the right recruiters in 3 simple steps:

1. Choose the recruiters you wish to target based on salary level, industry, function and region.

2. Add your cover letter and attach your resume.

3. Choose your package.

Join Now


For those searching in the UK, check out THE UK sites for executive jobs and executive search firms.


Executive Career Advice

Networking With
Executive Recruiters


How To Find Executive Recruiters

Executive Resume Writing

Executive Cover Letters

Executive Search Firms -- Retained or Contingency?

Retained Executive Search Firms

Contingency Executive Search Firms

Top Executive Search Firms

Executive Interview

sitemap