{"id":10749,"date":"2020-03-11T03:38:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T03:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scouttalent.com\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2026-06-19T03:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:37:55","slug":"good-headhunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scouttalent.com\/ca\/blog\/good-headhunting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talent Scout Episode 5: What Does Good Headhunting Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/3dc59db3-62d7-47a9-8960-9d98a33ef8ed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here at Scout we know that recruitment is extremely hard. Headhunting in particular, is probably one of the hardest and most time-consuming types of recruitment you can undertake. Which probably begs the question of why do we do it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s back up a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, recruiters used to look at the talent pool as being made up of passive and active candidates. Active being those that are actively looking at job boards and applying for jobs and passive being the group that are not actively looking but would be open to a new role if it were the right fit and it was presented to them.<\/p>\n<p>We now have come to the point of <strong>continual candidates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There was once a time when people would see a role and company as the place the would work for life. Those days are mostly now a thing of the past. Employees now have an eye on the door at all times to ensure that they don\u2019t miss out on their next big opportunity. Millennials in particular as a group have a tendency to prefer to advance their career by moving to a different organization rather than wait for opportunities for promotion to open up where they are. By 2025, millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on where you are or who you are this all might terrify you. But it\u2019s also an opportunity, and that\u2019s where we come to headhunting. With so much of the current workforce open to new opportunities once they are presented to them, headhunting is suddenly an extremely valuable tool in your recruitment arsenal!<\/p>\n<p>Headhunting can take many forms, it can be online and high tech, using tools like LinkedIn\u2019s recruiter license or Indeed\u2019s Resume search function or whichever organization has the biggest database of resumes and CVs where you are located. It can also be offline and really effective. Of course, it can also be offline and really creepy and ineffective too. Don\u2019t be one of those people that approaches someone in their place of work, in front of their boss, and tries to offer them a new role. That\u2019s about as useful as yelling at strangers in a park that you have an opening for a new role.<\/p>\n<h3>Online Headhunting<\/h3>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the online world first. Effective recruitment here can be quite time consuming and may take a lot of effort to yield results, but there are certain ways to bolster your chances when reviewing an online database or reaching out to people on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>Some recruiters like to spam hundreds of profiles with a message that barely describes the role and is clearly mass-produced. This is useless. If by some miracle it garners you a hire, it will not be the best hire you could get. You need to take time to read the information that the person you\u2019re interested in has on their profile and tailor your message towards them. If there\u2019s something particular in their experience you\u2019re interested in, highlight that to them, and in doing so make it clear that your message isn\u2019t mass-produced and is instead solely for you.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of that be prepared that your candidate has all of the power, you can\u2019t hide things like salary range from them, you can\u2019t get them to bend over backwards and answer hundreds of screening questions. You\u2019ve reached out to them which means you need to meet them where they are, maybe it\u2019s an initial casual phone call so they can ask some questions, maybe it\u2019s a visit to your office, maybe they\u2019ll be interested straight away and ready for an interview. Who knows, but one thing is for certain, they\u2019re not going to fall into a strict recruitment process. Allow some wiggle room for them, they are potentially your <a href=\"https:\/\/scouttalent.ca\/the-talent-scout-episode-3-really-nice-horses-instead-of-purple-unicorns\/\">purple unicorn<\/a> after all. Cater to their needs as much as possible because remember they did not seek you out, you sought them out.<\/p>\n<p>Online recruitment tools can be expensive and if you\u2019re not recruiting frequently you may want to<a href=\"https:\/\/scouttalent.ca\/contact\/\"> reach out<\/a> to an external company such as ourselves for support on that front.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are other options for you. Offline headhunting can be really powerful and even if it doesn\u2019t make you that initial hire it can be really effective at bolstering your employer brand.<\/p>\n<h3>Offline Headhunting<\/h3>\n<p>There is a multitude of different ways you can go about Offline Headhunting. The easiest is an employee referral program. Tell your employees which roles you\u2019re struggling to fill and reward them for finding someone who lasts in the role. Your employees know people in their field and probably have quite a large reach to potential candidates you\u2019re not aware of. If you\u2019re not able to reward your employees with some monetary increases there are other options open to you. An example from a client we work with was to buy a holiday for two for one of their employees each year, to be in the running you had to have referred an employee to the organization that lasted a certain period of time and at the end of the year, all the employees that had referred someone were put into a raffle and a random winner was selected. Something creative like that can sometimes appeal to your workforce more than a short-lived monetary gain.<\/p>\n<p>Employee Referral Programs are of course not your only option. Lots of organizations have had great success by hosting some sort of networking event. The easiest example is to get an interesting guest speaker, bonus points if they appeal to your target demographic, and open your office up to the public. Before the speaker begins, have your open roles clearly visible on fliers or on a projector and again do the same when your speaker finishes. It\u2019s incredibly effective because essentially, you\u2019re selling your organization to people by saying \u2018look how great we are, we even have this person as a guest speaker\u2019, while also trying to recruit them with your open roles.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you decide to do and whichever avenue you choose to take, you do need to mentally prepare yourself for the fact that headhunting will take time. No one makes a begin decision like a career move in an instant. So take a breath, prepare yourself for the long recruitment process, and buy your employees a couple of trips to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, get in touch with the Scout Talent team on 07 3330 2595 or at info@scouttalent.com.au.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Scout we know that recruitment is extremely hard. Headhunting in particular, is probably one of the hardest and most time-consuming types of recruitment you can undertake. Which probably begs the question of why do we do it? Well, let\u2019s back up a few minutes. Traditionally, recruiters used to look at the talent pool as being made up of passive and active candidates. Active being those that are actively looking at job boards and applying for jobs and passive being the group that are not actively looking but would be open to a new role if it were the right fit and it was presented to them. We now have come to the point of continual candidates. There was once a time when people would see a role and company as the place the would work for life. Those days are mostly now a thing of the past. Employees now have an eye on the door at all times to ensure that they don\u2019t miss out on their next big opportunity. Millennials in particular as a group have a tendency to prefer to advance their career by moving to a different organization rather than wait for opportunities for promotion to open up where they are. By 2025, millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce. Depending on where you are or who you are this all might terrify you. But it\u2019s also an opportunity, and that\u2019s where we come to headhunting. With so much of the current workforce open to new opportunities once they are presented to them, headhunting is suddenly an extremely valuable tool in your recruitment arsenal! 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Some recruiters like to spam hundreds of profiles with a message that barely describes the role and is clearly mass-produced. This is useless. If by some miracle it garners you a hire, it will not be the best hire you could get. You need to take time to read the information that the person you\u2019re interested in has on their profile and tailor your message towards them. If there\u2019s something particular in their experience you\u2019re interested in, highlight that to them, and in doing so make it clear that your message isn\u2019t mass-produced and is instead solely for you. On the back of that be prepared that your candidate has all of the power, you can\u2019t hide things like salary range from them, you can\u2019t get them to bend over backwards and answer hundreds of screening questions. You\u2019ve reached out to them which means you need to meet them where they are, maybe it\u2019s an initial casual phone call so they can ask some questions, maybe it\u2019s a visit to your office, maybe they\u2019ll be interested straight away and ready for an interview. Who knows, but one thing is for certain, they\u2019re not going to fall into a strict recruitment process. Allow some wiggle room for them, they are potentially your purple unicorn after all. Cater to their needs as much as possible because remember they did not seek you out, you sought them out. Online recruitment tools can be expensive and if you\u2019re not recruiting frequently you may want to reach out to an external company such as ourselves for support on that front. However, there are other options for you. Offline headhunting can be really powerful and even if it doesn\u2019t make you that initial hire it can be really effective at bolstering your employer brand. Offline Headhunting There is a multitude of different ways you can go about Offline Headhunting. The easiest is an employee referral program. Tell your employees which roles you\u2019re struggling to fill and reward them for finding someone who lasts in the role. Your employees know people in their field and probably have quite a large reach to potential candidates you\u2019re not aware of. If you\u2019re not able to reward your employees with some monetary increases there are other options open to you. An example from a client we work with was to buy a holiday for two for one of their employees each year, to be in the running you had to have referred an employee to the organization that lasted a certain period of time and at the end of the year, all the employees that had referred someone were put into a raffle and a random winner was selected. Something creative like that can sometimes appeal to your workforce more than a short-lived monetary gain. Employee Referral Programs are of course not your only option. Lots of organizations have had great success by hosting some sort of networking event. The easiest example is to get an interesting guest speaker, bonus points if they appeal to your target demographic, and open your office up to the public. Before the speaker begins, have your open roles clearly visible on fliers or on a projector and again do the same when your speaker finishes. 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