Benefits of Hiring an Executive Recruitment Firm in Bangkok, Thailand

Senior executives and C-level employees provide the leadership that drives growth in a company. These crucial roles need to be occupied by people with the vision to plan for the future and the gumption to put it into practice. Therefore, hiring for such positions is a critical task. This function is best handled by specialists.

Hiring the right people is even more critical in an evolving and emerging economy like Thailand. Bangkok is set to grow as the international destination of choice for numerous multinationals. Home-grown businesses are setting up their headquarters in the city as well. A recruitment firm can be of incredible value in such prime conditions.

Benefits of Hiring an Executive Recruitment Firm:

• Understanding of Job Responsibility: An intimate knowledge of the industry allows recruitment firms to understand the issues and challenges facing the organisation. With further inputs about the client’s work culture, they can start to shortlist candidates who can shoulder the responsibility. The leadership characteristics required and expected are the ground rules for the next stage.

• Comprehensive Screening: Long before any contact is made, an executive recruitment firm will start looking into the track record, achievements, and performance of potential candidates. Social and regular media, reference interviews, and talent tracking tools help the firm build a strong pool of candidates who have functional industry knowledge and exhibit key competencies and traits.

• Qualifications and Verification: Once suitable candidates are identified, contact is established and résumés sought. In comparison, entry-level positions and even mid-level executives are hired by shortlisting the candidates from a large number of CVs. Any HR executive will readily admit that they barely spend more than a few seconds glancing over a résumé. The sheer number of candidates lends some credibility to what is an otherwise short-sighted approach. However, for senior executives and top leadership roles, this process can be detrimental. CVs need a thorough analysis followed by verification of educational and other details. Necessary legal disclaimers are also made at this stage.

• Judicious Interviews: Executive and C-Level interviews are serious affairs that are designed to evaluate candidate competency. An interviewer faces a tremendous challenge when appraising learning ability, thinking patterns, and problem-solving skills.

• Feedback and Debriefing: Most companies rarely inform a candidate when they fail to meet the cut. This practice is so prevalent that it is now considered normal in almost every industry. Entry-level candidates take this repugnant form of feedback, or lack of it, in their stride. But for executive positions, in particular, C-Level positions, the repercussions of such methods can tarnish the image of an organisation. An executive recruitment firm can have the uncomfortable conversation that HR teams dread. The firm takes the neutral stance and offers feedback and debriefs candidates. It protects the reputation of the client and may even foster goodwill with this show of transparency and respect.

Repeated studies have shown that executives hired through a recruitment firm outperform those selected by in-house HR teams. The organizations also show higher growth and sales following such hires. A partnership with an executive recruitment firm brings prosperity to a business.

This article was written by Anchitta A., the Business Development Manager of KTI Consultants. KTI Consultants is an independent executive search, headhunting, and recruitment firm based in Bangkok.