SEARCH & SELECTION
Capture the best profiles for your key positions, despite the talent shortage
Target the best-performing candidates by opting for search & selection. Benefit from tailor-made, personalised support and expert tools and methods to identify, attract and assess the best talent, whether these professionals are looking for opportunities or not.
Our Industry Expertise
Actual Talent recruits and retains top talents in sales, engineering, and IT through tailored solutions adapted to each sector.
Sales & Business Development
Actual Talent, a specialist in search & selection, recruitment, identifies top sales talents to strengthen your teams and enhance your performance.
Engineering and Technology
Actual Talent, an expert in search & selection, identifies and engages top engineers. We support companies in strengthening their teams by combining technical assessment, soft skills analysis, and solutions tailored to the challenges of technological transformation.
IT & Digital
Actual Talent, an IT recruitment specialist, supports companies in identifying and attracting top tech and digital talents. With in-depth sector expertise and unique synergies within the Actual group, we offer integrated solutions to recruit, train, and retain your teams in a constantly evolving industry.
With the methods and expertise of the Actual Talent teams, you can recruit more effectively:
- Cover your key positions with highly qualified candidates,
- Gain access to highly sought-after profiles that are not very active on the job market,
- Benefit from a market audit and advice before the service is provided, and opt for the winning strategy from the outset,
- Meet suitable, motivated candidates, thanks to a perfect understanding of your environment and your expectations, backed up by our specialist teams of recruiters,
- Create preference by having a dedicated consultant as the first ambassador for your project and its added value,
- Secure your headhunting performance over the long term by relying on a reliable assessment of soft skills
- Rely on regular, personalised support throughout the assignment, and gain the visibility you need to make the right choices.
candidates approached per week
secure key posts per year
of trial periods validated
What is the headhunting?
Search & Selection is a proactive headhunting method that enables us to capture candidates who have been “directly approached” via CV databases, social networks, professional networks/schools or by recommendation. This approach means that we are no longer solely dependent on applications that come from job advertisements.
The search & selection, a preferred service in a tense environment
Many sectors of activity are affected by the need for new skills, which require constant updating (technological, industrial, health, etc.). This rapid change, coupled with the ageing of the working population and training pathways, is creating tensions between supply and demand.
Over the last 10 years, the average volume of applications has fallen by 40%*, particularly for managerial and similar positions. This figure also applies to occupations and companies that are suffering from a lack of attractiveness and need high volumes of recruitment (catering, construction, health, transport, retail, personal services, etc.).
The search & selection is one of the most effective recruitment methods for rapidly identifying and attracting these highly sought-after skilled professionals. Rely on specialist consultants who use optimised sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed Insight, Hellowork databases, Cadremploi, etc.) and who have a thorough understanding of your added value to create preference.
* source : https://www.apec.fr/
You need direct headhunting if…
This type of recruitment expertise is particularly relevant for :
- Your executive or senior expert positions, where highly specialised skills or business knowledge are rare and highly sought-after.
- The sectors of activity or functions most exposed to a shortage of profiles, due to a lack of attractiveness or high recruitment volumes.
- Confidential or sensitive recruitment: our consultants protect your need for discretion and confidentiality. If necessary, this approach avoids the publication of job offers, which would compromise your recruitment process.
- Capture profiles from your competitors who are not necessarily active in terms of job hunting.
- You don’t have the opportunity to train your teams, but the need to master your environment is critical to the success of the job.
- Secure strategic positions that have a major impact on your company’s performance (finance, sales, logistics, management, etc.).
The search & selection therefore makes perfect sense for recruiting niche profiles, whether they are experts or key managers with highly sought-after know-how, confidential or strategic for your company’s performance.
Actual Talent, a proven, humanised methodology to support your goals
Because expertise and humanity are at the heart of all our services, we deploy an approach that combines proven methodologies, cutting-edge tools and resources, business know-how and a passion for human relations.
Job assessment and consultancy
- Understanding the context, the challenges, the corporate culture and your added value
- Mapping business skills and soft skills,
- remuneration and benefits & competitive analysis
- Recommendations on approach strategy.
Sourcing & detection
- Identify the best profiles on the market through exhaustive sourcing, combining a media plan and search & selection
- Extensive use of the most effective market tools (LinkedIn Recruiter & Video Job Slots, Indeed sponsored ads, Job dating, multiple CV library access, etc.).
Selection & motivation
- Qualification by telephone to understand the career path, functions and scope entrusted to you
- Understanding expectations and identifying motivational drivers
- Tailor the promotion of your project to resonate with each candidate’s individual aspirations and invite those who best fit to a meeting.
Assessing soft skills & commitment
- In-depth individual interviews to validate scope, results and motivational affinities
- Validation of the soft skills that impact performance in situations, using the STAR method and the RESPECT reference framework
- Cognitive, behavioural and personality tests
- Commitment and support for candidates during the recruitment process and regular post-integration monitoring
Soft skills, the foundation of sustainable headhunting
89% of recruitments fail due to behavioural factors. The compatibility of a candidate’s profile with your company should no longer be a variable over which you have no control.
Decisive, long-term recruitment requires optimal alignment between the skills required and, above all, your company’s culture, values, know-how and teams. Find out how to secure the best profiles for your company.
- Situational interviews using the S.T.A.R. method: we challenge each key skill around one or more experiences described in Situation, Tasks, Actions and Results.
- Assessment of Soft Skills based on the 7 key dimensions of our R.E.S.P.E.C.T. reference framework, the fruit of our experience of over 20 years.
- Assessment of potential and aptitude, supplemented by cognitive tests (reasoning), personality tests (Pro-R Profile, Papi) and behavioural tests (Saven, DISC).
- Role-playing exercises for optimal predictive assessment of behavioural skills and know-how (sales, communication, organisation, management, etc.)
Client testimonials
We are your trusted choice.
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“What a great hire we’ve made with our new Corporate Supply Chain Director at FICOSA. I think it’s one of the best hires FICOSA has made in years. I wanted to thank you, because without you, it wouldn’t have been possible.”
FICOSA
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“Thank you so much for all these months of collaboration. It’s been great to share this challenge with you!
Without a doubt, we would choose you again!
Until next time!”NEURAXPHARM
Because we have identified the risks and know how to avoid them, we offer you :
- reimbursement of 80% of fees in the event of termination within 3 months,
- the replacement of the candidate on the basis of the fees reimbursed,
- or on another assigned post,
- or reinvesting the sum repaid in other priorities,
- A “claims” declaration in 2 clicks, and reimbursement within a few days.
Did you know?
of trial periods resulting from Actual Talent recruitment were validated in 2023.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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The questions you most often ask us about the search & selection
The length of this recruitment process can vary depending on the complexity of the position and the availability of potential candidates. In general, the assignment lasts between 4 and 8 weeks, from the initial identification of candidates to the presentation of the best profiles. The duration depends on the complexity of the position you are looking to fill and the availability of profiles.
The search & selection is perfectly legal when carried out ethically and professionally. Recruiters must respect the confidentiality of potential candidates and obtain their consent before sharing their information.
Discretion is essential when approaching candidates directly. Our expert consultants have developed methods that scrupulously respect the confidentiality of candidates when contacting them. Candidate information that we share with you is only shared with the explicit agreement of the persons concerned.
The two terms are often used interchangeably, but the direct approach encompasses all methods of proactively seeking out candidates, including headhunting.