What precautions and practices are needed in the headhunting industry?

The industry practices and rules in which headhunting companies operate, and the degree to which these principles and practices are adhered to is an important aspect in distinguishing the pros and cons of a headhunting company.

1. Confidentiality rules: Confidentiality is the common sense and professional ethics necessary for headhunters. The principle of confidentiality involves not only the business secrets of the headhunting company, but also the clients’ business secrets, and even the candidates’ own secrets.

2. Agreement rules: Signing an agreement and determining the rules of the game are necessary to ensure successful cooperation. In the process of headhunting services, such as job descriptions, salary standards, working conditions, qualifications, etc., must be reflected in words, otherwise there will be no criterion to measure whether the quality of headhunting services is up to standard.

3. Process rules Anyone who understands the headhunting industry basically knows that process control is the key to determining service quality. Whether each process node is controlled is one of the indicators to measure the professionalism of a headhunting company.

4. Protection rules Protection rules are industry rules that a professional headhunting company must abide by in order to show respect and responsibility for clients. This aspect mainly embodies two points: one is to send talents exclusively; the other is not to poach client.

5. Satisfaction rules Satisfaction rules are also called exchange rules. After the client expresses dissatisfaction with the candidate, the headhunting company will immediately start a new round of search work until a new satisfactory candidate is found.

6. Legal Principle: For a headhunting company to survive in the long term, in addition to strictly adhering to credibility and ensuring quality, there is another factor that is compliance with laws and regulations. Therefore, how to keep client confidentiality; how to solve the problem of collective job-hopping of talents; how to help candidates legally exit the original unit, these all require headhunting companies to provide services in strict accordance with relevant national laws and relevant personnel policies during the operation process.

7. Rules of secrecy: It is one of the capabilities of a headhunting company to complete the hunt for candidates under confidentiality. Therefore, headhunters often strive to complete their work in a secretive environment.

8. Principle of Trust: Excellent headhunting companies will try their best and proactively avoid clients who cooperate with multiple headhunting companies at the same time.