Headhunting is an approach that is typically utilized when recruiting human resources for management, and in a situation when market provides only limited number of candidates that could perform specific tasks.
These candidates are usually employed within similar firms, ones that represent competition, and are usually employed at same positions. Commonly, these are people prepared to work at high positions, such as chief executive officers, sales or finance executives and experts with experience within specific production, service and commerce sectors (engineers, programmers and similar).
Search for these candidates is very specific especially due to reason that determined candidate profile is often scarce within human resources market. This is why we seek highly paid candidates with secure positions within rival companies.
In these cases it is not rare the Agency is hired to transfer specific person from rival company to your company.