Friday, February 13, 2015

Education Executive Search Firms Responsibilities

Education Executive Search Firms Responsibilities

By Katina Brady


A specialized job designed to choose and hire an individual who will take on a senior leadership position for a specific organization. These searches normally bypass usual recruitment strategies and tactics such as Internet postings and classified advertisements. The majority of the time, organizations choose to have these searches performed by agencies.

It is generally the task of the Human Resource department to employ someone whenever a job vacancy occurs. Still, a lot of people think that the HR department should not be too involved in terms of employing a senior leader. This is due to the fact that the person may make decision regarding the department later on. Without a doubt, the types of skills the Human Resource department intends to find during the hiring of mid level supervisors as well as production workers are very different from the skills they have to find in a senior administrator. For these reasons, many organizations conducting such searches choose to employ separate education executive search firms.

These agencies are of two types. Those that run based on retention and those that run based on contingency. The first type get a part of their fees during the process, but at periodic intervals. Prior to the selection of a decision maker, they may already get their entire fee. The second type on the contrary can only get their fees if a candidate has already been employed. They frequently have exclusive contracts. The meaning of this is these agencies are in no competition with others.

These agencies have maintained and established networks of decisions makers they have been working with for them to easily distinguish the ones with potential and this made them successful. These agencies get in touch with all the decision makers in their network if there is an opening necessary to be filled in. No matter where the candidates are located, these agencies will go out of their way just to locate those who have the necessary qualifications required for the job.

Many times, these agencies focus on currently employed individuals. The reason being that a senior leader worth hiring is likely already working for someone. These agencies differ from the usual employment agencies because their mission is not to look for openings for individuals, but they look for individuals to match openings.

The interview procedure is similar as well as different from the traditional procedure after the identification of candidates. Such agencies will certify the candidate's required qualifications for the job to be done. They assess the qualifications of the senior administrator differently from production workers or department heads.

The qualified candidates will be questioned and evaluated more than once in several settings. The whole senior leadership team may conduct the interview in one settings, then the Chief Executive Officer of the company may conduct a different one in another time.

Depending on the organization, candidates might be required to formally meet the organization's directors. It is still the task of the board to handle the final hiring although it is the task of the agencies to find the candidates. In case, the candidates are not acceptable, the search process will continue.




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