High Tech and High Touch
Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation
- 204 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
High Tech and High Touch
Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation
About this book
In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.
As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client companies; and how they strive to broker interactions between candidates and clients to maximize the likelihood that the right people land in the right jobs.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Headhunting in an Era of Digital and Economic Transformation
- 1. Getting Clients and Job Orders: Selling Search and Securing Business
- 2. Qualifying Clients and Job Orders: Seeking Information, Assessing Risk, and Allocating Effort
- 3. Constructing Candidates and Securing Placements: Sourcing, Qualifying, and Brokering Deals
- 4. Evolution or Revolution? Information Technology and Social Media
- 5. Booms, Busts, and Changing Labor Markets: Why the Great Recession Did Not Produce Good Job Candidates
- 6. Being a Headhunter: The Evolution of an Accidental Occupation
- Conclusion: What We Can Learn from Headhunters
- References
- Index