For senior or specialist positions, Executive Search is the most appropriate method for sourcing the best available candidates, particularly those who may not be actively seeking a new position but meet the exact requirement specifications.
This service is preferred when it is unlikely that suitable candidates will respond to media or internet advertising campaigns and the appointment is more strategic and not based on an urgent need to fill. Extracting senior, specialist employees out of established business relationships and convincing them to move is not easy.
Advertising can attract the casual reader who may be tempted to apply, whereas search more effectively presents the position by direct contact with pre-qualified prospects. With search assignments there is a strict code of professional behavior so that information obtained from the client and candidates may be withheld in confidence until it is deemed appropriate to release it. This also applies where a degree of anonymity is required.
