What does a headhunting company do?

Headhunting company is a company that seeks for top management talents and key technical positions for recruitment agencies.

Headhunters is the common name of "senior management agency recruitment agency", which is a company that seeks top management talents and key technical positions for recruitment agencies. The advantage of headhunting company is that it can provide professional, targeted and confidential services, saving time; The disadvantage is that it may eventually tend to persuade the organization to hire a candidate instead of finding a suitable person for the position.

The word "headhunter" is an exotic product, which originally meant the person who cut off the enemy's head as a trophy, and here refers to the person who is looking for talents. "Head" is the place where wisdom and talent are concentrated. "Headhunting" refers to hunting for talents, that is, finding, tracking, evaluating and selecting senior talents. Headhunting company is an intermediary organization that relies on hunting all kinds of senior talents needed by society to survive and make profits.

Industry status

It is reported that there are tens of thousands of headhunting companies in the headhunting market in China, and the number of headhunters exceeds 500,000. The core problem that affects the large-scale development of headhunting companies is the lack of headhunting talents.

On the one hand, headhunting companies help enterprises to solve the problem of talent recruitment, on the other hand, headhunting companies themselves are very short of talents, which is very incomprehensible to headhunting laymen, and the headhunting industry is really fighting for the poacher's feet among various peers every day.

Some people say that the headhunting market in China will be severely impacted by the financial crisis, but the reality tells us that the headhunting market in China is still very hot, and the headhunting industry will still start a prairie fire like a bonfire. In fact, headhunting companies do not lack customers, because excellent talents are always scarce resources, which is the fundamental reason for the existence of this market.

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