subject: Why Executive Recruitment Makes Sense for Management Consultancy Positions [print this page] Why Executive Recruitment Makes Sense for Management Consultancy Positions
Management consultancy is a high spec, high talent job, with far reaching consequences for the company that does the hiring. It's a bit like football management. Pick the wrong guy and watch the team go crashing out of a major tournament covered in ignominy pick the wrong management consultant, and a whole corporate edifice can come crashing down around the ears. Executive recruitment, then, makes a whole lot of sense it puts that tough decision in the hands of people who have made a professional reputation, and a lot of contacts, by doing the hard work.
Management consultancy is usually only required by companies that are having a hard time. When the decision is made to call in consultants, it's made for a very good reason something isn't right at the top, and outside help is required to fix it. That sets up its own list of problems. When a company is not sure of its management, how can it be sure who is best qualified to fix it? Management, after all, is employed to make decisions but when those decisions are going wrong, which is why the consultants are being called in; the people making them can't be best placed to decide who should help. Executive recruitment companies cut all that hardship away by offering their best placed candidates for the job. That ensures that the only interviewees are already fully qualified, completely capable and possessed of the kind of track record that makes everything go smoothly.
Management consultancy, when called in, undertakes a full overhaul of a company's organisational structure. It hires and fires to strengthen key positions. It introduces new strategies to refresh corporate drive and direction. In other words, it saves the day by bringing a fresh perspective to a business. That happens because management consultants are absolute experts in a key area of business practice: overall behaviour, rather than microcosmic processes. Executive recruitment companies hold lists of people who are qualified not so much in the daily running of an individual company, as in the philosophy of how to run companies generally. That can be extremely useful when a business is facing hard times. Management consultancy steps in and looks at the overall picture rather than the individual practices, taking the helm and driving in new directions so the departments of a company can apply their skills and experience in better ways.
What executive recruitment offers, then, is a list of experts. People who have proven themselves in company after company trouble shooters who make their money by coming in at critical stages of the business game and getting all the players to work together for a common goal that a standard employee (even a standard management employee) simply cannot see. Management consultancy is often called in to help with restructuring, redirecting and overhaul the kind of work normal employees simply don't understand. And why would they? Their job is to work with the processes of a company, and its staff not radically overhaul those processes to make things work differently. Executive recruitment goes through the CVs and experience of highly qualified individuals to get the best man or woman for each job and that means that the company in question stands a much better chance of picking the right person.
