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Head-On Recruitment is a South African recruitment company that provides recruitment, placement and assignment services. It is managed and owned by people who have strong experience and wide knowledge in managing businesses and in dealing with change dynamics, and its business backgrounds reflect dealings with extensive staffing solutions across a broad range of commercial operations and in the personnel industry. The company's stated differentiator is that its services are delivered by people who have themselves managed operations and staff over many years in various industries, which means the service is provided by people with real business experience who are able to understand and highlight a client's recruitment needs. Head-On works as a team, drawing on the business experience of its management to ensure proper evaluation of both clients' needs and candidates' potential.

The company's services are built around permanent placements. It handles executive placements of CEOs and other senior executives, financial placements of financial directors, financial managers and accounting staff, and general staff placements covering administration. For executive and director assignments, its key consultancy management, including chartered accountants and experienced business people, become involved in assessing the position and in interviewing and short-listing appropriate candidates. Every candidate is personally interviewed, with competency and skills assessed to confirm the person fulfils the requirements of the position and is likely to fit into the client's organisation. Candidates then go through an intensive reference check process which can be extended, at the client's request, to validation of qualifications and criminal, credit and security clearances.

Before starting a search, Head-On properly evaluates a client's organisation, ethos and culture so it can build a meaningful relationship and understand the needs of the business, and the resulting placements deliver an authentic matching of client and candidate needs. The company maintains the strictest confidence over information acquired about clients' businesses during the process, and a client's identity is only revealed once a candidate has been invited to interview. Head-On provides a 90 day guarantee on placements, detailed in its standard contract, and strives to build lasting client relationships based on integrity, trust and the delivery of excellent service and results at all times.