Amrop Hever Group operates as an organization of entrepreneurial and independent executive search companies. It offers executive and board search services that help its clients to identify top performing executives and non-executive directors, as well as involves in interview stage and negotiations. The company also provides management audit services that help its clients to gain an appreciation of resources, development needs, and capacity to deal with key strategic issues. It serves its clients automotive, industrial, family business, life sciences, consumers and retail, technology and media, financial services, and professional services sectors. Amrop Hever Group was founded in 2000 and is based in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. www.amrop.com
About Executive Recruiters
Two types of executive recruiters work from outside the hiring company to facilitate the recruitment of new executives.
The retained executive search consultant is engaged on an exclusive basis by a hiring company to identify and assess candidates to fill senior management positions typically paying a salary above $150,000. These consultants typically recruit for strategic executive jobs and are paid a fee for the search, usually without regard to its eventual outcome. Executive search consultants recruit most of the chief executives and other C-suite leaders for the world’s largest companies. Given their deep relationships with hiring organizations, they are acutely aware of which companies are growing, the talent those organizations need, and what they are willing to pay to attract top-notch executives.
The contingency headhunter is contracted nonexclusively and often is in competition with other contingency-fee search firms to identify potential candidates for lower-level management positions that usually pay a base salary of $75,000 or more. Only firms that identify candidates who are ultimately hired get paid a fee for their services. The contingency headhunter is much more likely than the retained executive search consultant to distribute your résumé to as many potential clients as possible because it increases his or her chances of making the right introduction and, ultimately, of getting paid. If you haven’t yet landed a job with significant management responsibilities, it’s far more likely you’ll be working with a contingency recruiter.
A small but increasing number of especially large corporations have entrusted the sourcing of executive-level management candidates to their own internal sourcing teams. That means an initial recruitment call may come from a member of a corporate executive staffing team (essentially an in-house management search unit) or perhaps a recruitment-specialist partner of a private equity firm whose portfolio company may need someone with your experience and knowhow.