Executive recruitment
The right leader in the right place is one of the most important investments an organisation can make. Habberstad supports you throughout the entire process: from job analysis and search to structured selection and onboarding. With experienced advisors and proven methods, we take responsibility for ensuring that you find the candidate who is genuinely the right fit, not just on paper.
The best leaders create the best results
Executive recruitment and Executive Search are among the most critical tasks an organisation faces. Appointing senior executives, middle managers and other key people often carries considerable risk. To succeed, you need to invest time, experience, insight, understanding and close dialogue.
Executive recruitment is suited to all organisations that want professional, well-founded processes when appointing key people. Habberstad’s advisors are dependable partners who help you make good choices, all the way until the right candidate is in place.
What does executive recruitment involve?
We place great importance on getting to know you as the client and the role in question well. The process should feel professional, and we use a methodical framework to find the best-suited candidate.
Through conversations with you and key personnel in your organisation, we clarify the most important tasks and challenges associated with the position. The job analysis results in a clear candidate profile with evaluation criteria for qualities and qualifications. The profile in turn forms the basis for the systematic scoring procedure (scorecard) when assessing each individual candidate against the requirements of the role. The process is carried out in close collaboration with you as the client and is approved by you. The approved profile becomes our mandate and search filter for the position, the starting point for advertising, and the tool for selection.
Quality at every stage
Habberstad’s recruitment processes and methodical approach have been refined through many years of experience. The approach is built on evidence-based processes and methods grounded in research in the field.
The backbone and common denominator across all the stages of the process consists of three elements: quality, communication and knowledge transfer. Each element is important in its own right. The most decisive factor for success, however, is that these elements work together throughout the entire process between client, recruitment advisor and candidates.
Everyone involved should come away with a professional impression of your organisation, and we make sure to transfer the insight and expertise we have gained during the process back to your organisation.
“Habberstad assisted Diakonhjemmet Hospital with the recruitment of a new chief executive officer. The process has been efficient and thorough. The advisors come well prepared and contribute with good plans and good follow-up along the way. It has been reassuring to have an advisor from Habberstad with us throughout the entire recruitment process.”
Ingunn Moser, chair of the board at Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Diversity and inclusion
Both research and experience indicate that it pays off for you to recruit so that you have diversity in your teams and organisation. It is both profitable and fair that everyone gets a chance. To achieve this, we must all become aware of our own unconscious biases, and we need to make some important structural changes when we recruit.
We help you keep this in focus from the start of a recruitment process right through to the finish. We consider a broad spectrum of diversity, taking into account gender, age, ethnicity, thinking style, personality and other factors.
We also give our recommendations on how you can get the best out of diversity and achieve genuine inclusion in your workplace.
If you keep the right focus on this, it will be a positive experience for all candidates in the processes and will therefore have great significance for your company’s employer brand.
Contact us for an informal chat
We help you find the right leader or develop the one you already have. Do get in touch for an informal conversation about what we can do for you.
