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Certificate in Executive Search and Sourcing

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Executive Search and Sourcing


About Executive Search and Sourcing
Executive search (informally called headhunting) is a specialized recruitment service that organizations pay to seek out and recruit highly qualified candidates for senior-level and executive jobs across the public and private sectors, as well as non-profit organizations (e.g., President, Vice-president, CEO, and non-executive-directors. Headhunters may also seek out and recruit other highly specialized and/or skilled positions in organizations for which there is strong competition in the job market for the top talent, such as senior data analysts or computer programmers.


Why is Executive Search and Sourcing important?
The benefit of Executive Search and Sourcing are
•    Attract and empower an ever-increasing number of applicants to apply to the organization.
•    Build a positive impression of the recruitment process.
•    Create a talent pool of candidates to enable the selection of the best candidates for the organization.
•    To attract and engage people it needs to achieve its overall organizational objectives
•    Increase the pool of job candidates at minimum cost.
•    Recruit the right people who will fit into the organization's culture and contribute to the organization's goals.
•    Determine Current and future requirements of the organization in conjunction with its personnel planning and job analysis activities.
•    It helps upwards the achievement rate of the choice process by diminishing the number of unmistakably under-qualified or overqualified work candidates.
•    It helps decrease the likelihood that activity candidates once enlisted and chosen will leave the organization after a brief time frame.
•    Meet the organization's lawful and social commitments with respect to the synthesis of its workforce.
•    Begin identifying and preparing potential job applicants who will be appropriate candidates.
•    Increment organization and individual effectiveness of different selecting systems temporarily and long haul.
•    Evaluate the effectiveness of the various recruiting technique and sources for all types of job applicants.

Who should take the Executive Search and Sourcing Exam?
•    Human resources professionals
•    Business owners or Entrepreneurs
•    Anyone who wants to assess their executive search skills
•    HR managers and senior executives
•    Human resources consultants
•    Professionals working in outsourced companies responsible for executive search

Executive Search and Sourcing Certification Course Outline

1. Talent Acquisition Planning
2. Recruitment of the Right Resources
3. Strategic Job Analysis
4. Recruitment
5. Assessment Methods
6. Compensation Management
7. Employee Churn
8. Employee Retention


Certificate in Executive Search and Sourcing FAQs

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

No there is no negative marking

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.