Headhunting wave surges in Vietnam

Recruiting for senior executives is increasingly difficult in Vietnam, especially following the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, there is a surge of headhunting in vietnam from various organizations and individual freelancers, specifically those who are born ‘to find people, for people’ with handsome commissions. So what are Headhunters? What does it take to become one?

What are headhunters? What do they do?

Headhunter is defined as a company or individual that specializes in providing job recruitment services. Headhunters are hired by companies (in this case clients) to find talent and identify individuals who meet specific job requirements.

When an organization implements a new project, a headhunter company in Vietnam is assigned with the task of finding suitable candidates for the position listed. Next, the "hunters" will carry out their own professional routine of contacting and approaching candidates.

They quickly select a few potential candidates to work first, then shortlist them and send their resumes and detailed assessment of each person's ability for the business to contact for a direct interview with the clients.

Banks in Vietnam are joining the ‘headhunting trip’

In the context of Vietnam, Vietinbank is aiming for 609 highly-qualified candidates at 83 branches, with only 5 slots reserved for managers at the head/deputy level of corporate customer service serving FDI enterprises. The remaining 604 targets mainly focus on retail customer relations specialist positions. People who work in talent acquisition need to have skills to hunt “sharks”.

Must-have skills of a headhunter

So far so good? More than often, headhunting is not as easy as you think although it does not seem to require any sort of higher education degree or certificates; people in the recruitment department need to have the following 3 skills:

Planning and strategy

Regarded as an industry on a whole, headhunter vietnam needs to be able to iron out a detailed strategy to find candidates, manage candidate data and build a funnel of potential candidates. That is the basic prerequisite.

Ability to treat candidates as customers - Customer relationship management

Once established contacts with potential candidates, headhunters must maintain and build on those relationships. This will help businesses not only recruit candidates immediately but also for the long term. Not only must businesses maintain relationships with unselected candidates, businesses must also maintain a good term with previous employees, in case new opportunities pop up for them in a different industry, sector or workplace or another partner in vietnam human resources oversees their new career.

Data analysis

There is no recruiting strategy without metrics to track and analyze candidates. By collecting and analyzing the right data, headhunters can improve their recruitment process and make better hiring decisions. This is different from traditional recruitment when employers do not need to store data for long-term recruitment.