Battle of the recruitment market headhunter (P1)

Currently, headhunter vietnam services are very developed in Vietnam, although the development of this service has yet to meet the needs of senior personnel in many businesses.

Head hunting service in Vietnam is weak in both quality and professionalism

This is the statement of a general manager of a consulting & multinational strategy group in Asia. Head hunters are very persistent persuasion, listening to your desire to work. But when we do not agree, the professional headhunter in vietnam expert was immediately become consultants. They agree with my choice for the current position with the statement from the perspective of experts. If you get a Vietnamese hunter, similar reaction is very rare.  According to the overview, the quality of this service in Vietnam is really weak.

This is not just a personal judgment of senior personnel. Some people talk about the senior human resource market, they have said that they had become “victims” rather than the one who is hunted in the headhunting industry of Vietnam.

Many head-hunter businesses decided to emphasize on price. Price competition method is used commonly; the consequences of these recruitment procedures truncated a result that does not meet the aspirations of clients and candidates. This style of work is really hard to retain the real experts in the industry, especially when it is also the market of the battle between the head-hunters. Besides, headhunting service fee is very high (18-22% range from a year’s salary of the candidate, candidates only receive expenses when they finish probationary period at the client company).

Staffs of headhunters in vietnam industry are also greatly affected because of lacking of professionalism. Many people in the name of head-hunter but actually their job is only “mediate” transfer applications but not enough experiences to afford counseling for both sides. That’s not to mention many head hunting experts intermediately has led both customers and audiences feel bored. To overcome the lack of professionalism of the head-hunter industry, they need to work professionally themselves.

Factors to be a professional head hunter

A Head-hunter called professional when having deep knowledge of their field of specialized industry that searching for. Scope of Head-hunter are divided by category, each head-hunter would charge some specific aspects. There are great views and skills of personnel.

A professional head-hunter does not stop at just being the one that finding out a good human resource for clients and to meet the criteria required by the customer offering. They themselves have deep and broad enough vision to advise long-term human resource strategy for the enterprise, ensuring the effectiveness of the cooperation process between business and head-hunter. Head-hunter herself professionally need to put herself as the main personnel of enterprises, need to know the development orientation of the business as well as difficulties in terms of personnel to work to bring the most benefits Business. Head hunters need to equipped with counseling skills not only solid career focused on business interests, they must know the benefit of interested candidates.