Executive Search and Headhunting are elite recruitment skills that separate average recruiters from top performers. Whether you are filling C level roles or hard to reach positions, this course teaches you how to target, engage, and close high value candidates other recruiters cannot even find. You will master every stage of the headhunting process from building a job order and scanning the market, to cold outreach, handling counter offers, and closing the deal. Based on 20 plus years of experience, this course gives you ready to use templates, scripts, maps, and strategies.

This Course Offers

• Foundations of executive search and job order intake: Understand how headhunting differs from normal search, history, basic tools and process, the ideal process template, what the ideal job order is, what an MPC or A player is, and how to have a meeting with a hiring manager.
• Market scanning, target list building, and long list development: Estimate market size and salary expectations, analyze employer attractiveness, create a recruitment map, generate a market report, build a target list using strategic networking and sourcing channels, develop long lists with real company and candidate data using automation tools.
• Short list development, candidate engagement, and advanced headhunting: Create outreach messaging and response strategies, conduct candidate analysis and interview prep, motivation mapping, passive candidate handling, counter offer prevention, and coaching hiring managers to close top talent.
• Offer strategy and candidate support: Design and deliver a winning offer, prepare for negotiation and objections, help the candidate transition and onboard, and use final checklists and closure techniques.

Why We Love This Course

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3. It includes a role play, practice test, assignments, and 8 downloadable resources.
4. It is based on 20 plus years of experience in executive search.

Headhunting is the most lucrative and respected niche in recruitment. The question is whether you want to become a certified headhunter who can recruit top executives, or stay with standard recruitment while others fill high value roles.

• Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Specialists who want to move into executive level hiring.
• HR professionals looking to expand their skill set in headhunting and direct search.
• Agency and in house recruiters who need to fill senior or hard to source roles.
• Sourcing specialists aiming to build deeper strategies for targeting top level talent.
• Freelance and independent recruiters seeking higher paying projects with executive clients.
• Career switchers or junior recruiters wanting to learn a premium, in demand recruiting skill.

• A basic understanding of recruitment or HR processes.
• Experience in sourcing or interviewing candidates is a plus.
• Familiarity with LinkedIn and job boards.
• An interest in hiring for executive or hard to fill roles.
• A willingness to apply templates, tools, and strategies in real world settings.

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