analysis and agreement on search strategy

The candidate profile is defined in close cooperation with the client. The company culture, strategy and organizational structure become important elements of the search strategy and influence the target group of candidates.

It is not a question of finding the best person for the job, but the right one – someone who is the perfect fit for the company, and its culture. This is why the quality of the identification and assessment process is so important in the search to fill an executive or specialist position.

The htc-network recruiter will work intensively with his client until he fully understands the profile of the candidate, he really needs. Sometimes our search profile is radically different from the original brief – we work with our clients to ensure, that we get this right upfront.

The profile of each open position will include personality, job specific experience and management competence defined in close cooperation with the client.

candidate identification

htc-networks professional consulting services will focus on individual consultation, rather than simply screening a range of candidates who might be the right match and supply CV’s of those, who are currently available. Managers and specialists are usually identified through our established network or the “htc-network Direct Search Process”.

The search of htc-network will not only address candidates with the best fit for the job but more important those, who have the right chemistry to work successfully with their peers and managers, and to fit in with the company culture. htc-network is able to offer this value-add since our team is led by executives, who have enjoyed successful careers in the high-tech industry, and can therefore draw on their own experience in helping to assess companies needs, and the suitability of potential candidates for new openings.

candidate qualification

The intensive htc-network qualification process consists of structured and nonstructured interviews, covering each candidate’s background and personality, their professional career and aspirations, their management potential – including job-specific competency tests (defined together with our client) – and a candidate presentation.

However, even the most thorough assessment by the htc-network recruiter is no match for the subjective appraisal by the person, who will become the new employee’s direct supervisor. To address this need, htc-network has developed the unique Candidate Video-DVD. This DVD enables all people, who are involved in the decision-making process, to make an individual assessment of candidates suitability for the position. Since our candidates are presented on a Video-DVD, each decision-maker can review individual candidates suitability at a time convenient to them, without having to schedule a full day of qualification interviews. No other recruitment consultancy offers this level of transparency.

documentation and presentation of the candidate to the customer:

Suitable candidates will be presented to our customers with the htc-network Candidate DVD first. If our customers wants to personally meet the candidate, we will set up the meeting as the next step.

Each htc-network Candidate Video-DVD contains all application material we receive from the candidate as well as our executive summary and the Video files of all interviews (complete– not modified or cut) :

• Interview focused on the candidates CV and biography
• Interview testing the individuals experience and competence, including job specific tests defined together with our clients
• The candidate presentation.

Our Candidate Video-DVD provides htc-network clients with decisive advantages, especially as it allows hiring managers to examine how candidates present themselves. Our interview process, with questions asked by an experienced consultant from within the industry, is more intensive than a round of face-to-face interviews. Our Video-DVD ensures that all participants in the decision-making process can see how candidates perform in the same interview situation, which is much more objective than individual, subjective interviews. The interviewer will avoid potential observation mistakes like:

• First impression
• Selective observation
• Prejudice
• Projection
• Contrast effects

Video files are compatible with all Windows PCs and do not require the installation of any additional software. Video clips also give interviewers the chance to study candidates more intensively, as individual sections can be replayed – something that is simply not possible in an individual interview, but is of great benefit, because even the most experienced interviewer can sometimes miss a clue during a face-to-face interview.

the closure

When a decision on the candidate has been made, a reference check is started. htc is available as a neutral consultant for contract negotiations.