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Executive Search
Executive Hunt is a strategic partner in business-critical hiring decisions
Achieving business objectives requires the right people in the right roles. Board members, the CEO, the executive team, middle management and other key people have a significant impact on a company’s competitiveness, growth and the successful execution of its strategy.
Executive Hunt helps its clients identify, reach and select the people best placed to succeed in their particular operating environment. Every assignment is built around an understanding of the client’s business, objectives, challenges and future needs. The goal is not just to find a suitable person, but a person who can deliver real business value to the client.
Executive Search for all key people in the organisation
Executive Hunt carries out direct searches for board members and chairs, senior management, operational middle management and demanding specialist roles.
Direct search is our core expertise. All assignments we carry out at different levels of organisations are based on the same operating model, high quality standards and a thorough understanding of business. Our consultants have led and successfully completed thousands of direct search assignments across industries and organisational levels.
In senior management and board-level assignments, the emphasis is on strategic thinking, leadership capability, change management and the ability to build the organisation’s future competitiveness. The same principles also support searches for other key people and specialists, where success is often decided by how well competence, motivation and operating environment fit together.
More Than Headhunting
Executive Hunt’s Executive Search is based on our More Than Headhunting operating model, which is centred on the client’s strategy, business objectives and the competence and leadership needs they require. The aim of the model is to reduce uncertainty in hiring decisions and to ensure that decisions are based on the broadest possible understanding of the market and on precisely defined success factors.
A successful direct search is built on four mutually reinforcing elements:
UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT
We understand our client’s business environment, strategy, objectives, situation of change and key challenges. This forms the foundation for the whole assignment.
DEFINING THE PROFILE
Together with our client, we define the objectives of the role, the critical competencies, the leadership capabilities, the experience, and the personal qualities that support success in that role.
OPENING UP THE MARKET
We systematically map the whole potential talent market and identify the people best placed to succeed in the role. Direct search makes it possible to reach talent who are not actively looking for new opportunities.
SELECTION AND DECISION-MAKING
We assess candidates against the client’s objectives, operating environment and the factors critical to success. We support our client throughout the decision-making process.
Why do clients choose Executive Hunt?
Recruiting executives, key people and specialists is rarely just a search for a person. It is about leading change, developing the business, strengthening competitiveness and building the future.
Executive Hunt’s consultants have themselves held senior executive roles with profit-and-loss responsibility before moving into direct search. This helps us understand clients’ business objectives, leadership challenges and conditions for growth at a practical level.
We combine business understanding, systematic market mapping and modern ways of working into a whole that brings certainty to our clients’ most important hiring decisions. We find the people who deliver our clients’ strategic and operational objectives.
