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Headhunters and How to Use Them
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Headhunters and How to Use Them

A Guide for Organisations and Individuals

Bloomberg Press, 2005 Mehr


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Overview
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

When you want to hire an executive, you need a specialized headhunter or recruiter. And if you are an executive job candidate, you may want one, too. Nancy Garrison Jenn’s book serves two distinct purposes. The first section, about one-quarter of the book, deals with recruiters. Jenn explains how they work, and what they do for both employers and candidates. The second section is an extensive list of top headhunters worldwide, and that may need updating. Jenn’s approach makes this manual very practical for corporations seeking executives and executives seeking corporations.

Take-Aways

  • Firms often hire recruiters to fill executive vacancies for $150,000-a-year-plus jobs.
  • The U.S. alone has more than 5,000 search firms.
  • In a retained search, the firm pays the search firm a fee, sometimes near $50,000.

About the Author

Nancy Garrison Jenn owns a consulting firm that tracks executive search activities for multinational firms. She lectures to M.B.A. students in Europe and the U.S., and has written about the executive search industry for the Economist’s intelligence unit.


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