Only the best professionals are targeted
One day you’re a scientist in a lab studying the human brain, the next you’re a successful marketer trying to figure out certain consumer buying behaviours. While such radical professional changes are often driven by spontaneity, more and more of these situations are now being created by headhunters. These professionals work to find the most talented, the most experienced employees and the most senior managers. Their daily job is to target managers and select the most qualified. The headhunters who work for recruitment firms are usually hired by large companies or organisations that care deeply about their business, their public image and the competences of the people who work for them.
The invisible side of the market
Headhunting can still be considered a “hidden market” today. This in no way implies that such people are looking for employees in some illegal way or that they are slandering their competitors. Rather, it reflects the very low profile of headhunting as a job in the general public. In the recruitment and selection of top managers, headhunters try to find the right, loyal person for a particular company as quickly as possible. Often, these headhunts use professional contacts, which allow a more specific search for a manager, thus saving considerable time and money for the client.
Nowadays, as many Lithuanian companies are rapidly looking to the most successful Western countries, headhunting is naturally becoming more popular. As practice shows, a number of Lithuanian organisations are turning to recruitment companies to ensure that their selection of top-level executives quickly yields positive results – the team is supplemented by a particularly qualified professionals.
Homework for managers
Managers, for their part, should also do their part to ensure that they are eventually noticed and receive excellent job offers. When submitting a profile on LinkedIn, one of the most popular social networks for entrepreneurs and professional networking, a qualified manager should check that his/her CV contains a comprehensive list of competences. If the manager is experienced, he/she should not reduce his/her list of competences to half a page or a partial page. A very detailed list of education, previous jobs, training, internships or refresher courses, with explanations of the competences acquired, becomes a key hook for headhunters to know later on what to offer this professional.
Another important aspect is the cover letter. It should reflect the manager’s strong incentives and abilities, supported by logical arguments. Companies only select truly motivated project managers. As you know, headhunting is to some extent based on contacts, so it is mandatory for candidates to provide a precise telephone number or e-mail address.
Thus, the increasingly popular headhunting is rarely seen in the public eye today, both in the world and in Lithuania. However, the work of recruiters in finding the most qualified professionals is really paying off. Headhunters who operate on a specific basis make professional contacts which then form the basis of the service they provide.
