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Executive Recruiting Challenges - WalkWater Talent Advisors

Executive recruiting is an absolutely demanding job. It requires immense proficiency and expertise to find the perfect candidate for the required senior-level job. And, along the route to finding the best, come a lot of challenges.

Outdated practices

Every recruitment firm has its own best practices and procedures to follow. But, what if the practices being followed are all outdated? Yes, this is one of the biggest issues being seen – outdated practices. The processes and practices being followed by search firms haven’t really changed in more than half a century. What is required to solve this problem is that there should be serious investment in rigorous research expertise, to come up with a new improved methodology.

Lacking expertise

Now that rigorous search expertise is important, another big issue faced is that the executive firm lacks the research expertise required to make search smarter. The key to make executive search easier is to make it smarter. Thus, it is important to harness the power of information and data analytics, to enable much more strategic executive recruiting. Moreover, it also helps to avoid landmines that can blow up searches. This is why research should always be taken up a notch, as research is what identifies, profiles, and produces the best candidates.

The candidate market

Executive searchers should be highly skilled, talented, and experienced in order to find the right candidates for the job. That is because the candidate pools for senior roles are relatively small and are easily exhausted. Furthermore, the candidates who are apt for a certain position are already happily working elsewhere. It is difficult to tempt them to come out of their comfort zone to come in for an interview to another company. Offering them something strong to have them to reconsider is a skill and talent.

Executive search is certainly a challenge, but in a good way. It definitely takes a lot of creativity and strategy to hire the perfect senior-level candidate for a job. And, with the amount of data doubling up every alternate year, there is magnanimous amount of candidate information available across the world, which is not found in resume databases or on online professional platforms. Harnessing the power of data can drive amazing results in executive search.

In other words, executive search doesn’t have to be so difficult, but should neither fail so often. The search should be made smart if you want to notice a seismic shift. And, this is what WalkWater Talent Advisors are experts at. They are one of the top executive search firms in India, the country’s fastest growing and innovative leadership search and talent advisory firm, with a mission to be a world-class institution and trusted partner, fulfilling leadership needs of our clients, globally. The WalkWaterTalent Advisors team brings a unique mix of strengths like intensive client partnering, long-term collaborations, deep domain knowledge, and global coverage, coupled with a drive to excel, and a constant focus on values; all of which provides an unparalleled customer experience.

 

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