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Executive Search

Identify and recruit tomorrow’s strategic leaders

In an environment where senior executives are increasingly challenged, identifying and engaging these inspiring, high-performing leaders is becoming a critical issue for the success of organisations: Executive Search is emerging as an essential solution.

This method not only enables you to attract the most promising leaders in the market, but also guarantees absolute confidentiality throughout the recruitment process. Thanks to our dual business and sector expertise, and the support we provide, our consultants can help you turn the corner by integrating strategic leaders, to ensure the stability and efficiency of your organisation.

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With the Actual Talent approach, you benefit from :

  • Access to a pool of highly qualified and specialised candidates
  • Targeted recruitment for management positions
  • Guaranteed confidentiality throughout the recruitment process
  • Sound advice from our specialist consultants
  • Personalised support to ensure a perfect match between the candidate and your corporate culture
  • Reduced recruitment risks thanks to rigorous assessment processes
  • Lasting relationships based on trust and compatibility
120

Executive recruitments every year

35

years of Executive Search expertise

16.000

qualified candidates every year

Executive Search is a recruitment service based on a direct approach and a network of trust built up over more than 35 years. Our consultants identify and attract highly qualified profiles specialised in their fields.

This approach mainly targets senior executives, members of management and experts in specific fields.

Using a proactive technique, this method enables our firm to contact and attract candidates who are often passive and difficult to reach.

When is Executive Search most appropriate?

Executive Search is particularly appropriate in the following situations:

  • Recruiting senior managers and executives: you need leaders to guide your organisation.
  • Specific skills or rare professions: you’re looking to fill a position that requires specific, hard-to-find qualifications.
  • Confidential recruitment: discretion is essential for strategic reasons or because the candidate is already in post.
  • Proactive approach: you need to identify and attract talent who are not, or are no longer, watching the job market.
  • Cultural and strategic alignment: your new leaders must share your values and vision.

A proven methodology for confirmed results

Having been in the job market for almost 35 years, our Executive Search firm has developed a unique methodology to help you achieve your objectives. We have never compromised on the values that have driven the group since it was founded: the human dimension and advice are at the heart of all our processes, so that you can make your new recruits one of your greatest assets.

Much more than a recruitment agency

Convinced that meeting your expectations is paramount, our Human Resources consultancy offers tailor-made, seamless support to its clients and candidates at every stage of their career path. Our consultants are at your side to advise and guide you, to ensure a smooth process in line with your strategic objectives.

A proactive approach

The proactive approach involves anticipating companies’ recruitment needs by actively identifying and approaching talent even before vacancies arise. It involves continuous monitoring, the maintenance of solid networks and in-depth evaluation of potential candidates.

This approach enables us to respond quickly to our clients’ urgent needs, ensuring a perfect match between the skills they are looking for and the profiles they have identified. Finally, it fosters long-term relationships of trust with clients and candidates, guaranteeing a high-quality, tailor-made service.

A high level of expertise in the recruitment sector

Our Executive Search firm uses its experience to understand the strategic, business and cultural challenges facing your organisation. This expertise enables us to select the best talent, tailored to your specific needs.

Present wherever your leaders of tomorrow are

With a presence in France’s main economic areas, we focus on proximity to develop a detailed analysis of our customers’ requirements. Our extensive network of recruitment agencies enables us to put people in touch with each other efficiently, helping you to recruit successfully.

Executive Search to support your company’s strategy

Your company is looking for the executives who will make it a success. Executive Search enables you to achieve your objectives more quickly:

  • You’ll be breaking new ground by joining the leaders in your sector.
  • You secure your strategic functions.
  • You gain access to highly qualified and specialised profiles.
  • You can reduce recruitment time by conducting a proactive search.
  • You achieve cultural and strategic alignment between your values and those of your new recruit.
  • You get Actual flexibility to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
  • You will ensure confidentiality throughout the process.

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This method stands out for its proactive and targeted approach. With traditional recruitment, your team publishes advertisements on job boards and you wait for applications with CVs and sometimes covering letters. Executive Search involves a more active search for specific profiles, often outside the job market, i.e. already in post and not looking for someone.

Executive Search offers you several key advantages:

  • Access to highly-qualified talent: this enables you to target and attract rare profiles that are not accessible via traditional methods, whatever the sector of activity.
  • Guaranteed confidentiality: the processes are carried out with complete discretion, protecting your confidentiality as a customer and that of the candidates.
  • Reduced risk: thanks to rigorous profile evaluation, you minimise the risk of recruitment errors.
  • Strategic alignment: Executive Search promotes optimum alignment between the values and culture of the company and those of the candidates.

The success of an assignment can be measured by several key indicators:

  • Recruitment time: the time required to fill the position.
  • Quality of candidates: the suitability of candidates’ skills and experience in relation to the requirements of the position.
  • Stakeholder satisfaction: the satisfaction of our customers and the profiles we select.
  • Impact on performance: the impact of recruitment on your company’s overall performance.

The duration of an assignment varies according to the complexity of the position to be filled and the specific features of the business sector. In general, we are able to present the first profiles within 3 to 4 weeks. However, in-depth research and rigorous selection can take several months.

Pricing depends on a number of factors, including the role to be filled, the scarcity of skills required and the scope of the recruitment process. Contact our sales team for pricing information tailored to your needs.

Confidentiality is at the heart of the process. Client and candidate information is strictly protected. Searches are conducted discreetly, without disclosing your company’s identity, until candidates have been shortlisted and their interest confirmed.

Executive Search is ideal for senior management positions, such as CEO, CFO, COO, as well as senior management and expert positions in highly specialised sectors. It is also relevant for roles that require rare skills, specialist expertise or strategic alignment with corporate objectives.

Executive Search doesn’t just look for technical skills. It also ensures that the candidates selected share your company’s values and vision. This approach ensures optimal alignment, both strategic and cultural, which is essential for your long-term performance and the successful integration of new managers into your departments.

Actual Talent uses all its HR expertise, in particular by exploiting its own skills repository, as well as its cutting-edge assessment tools. Soft skills once again play a key role in recruitment with a resolutely human dimension.