Head Searching

Head Searching is a cabinet de recrutement based in Paris that positions itself exclusively on approche directe, the direct approach method used to identify candidates who are already in post. The team comes mainly from industry and brings together more than 80 years of combined experience in recruitment and management, with consultants who specialise by sector and by profession. Every assignment opens with a particularly thorough discovery phase to understand the client company, define the need, understand the organisation and analyse the role and its environment, before a search strategy is drawn up. Head Searching then identifies potential candidates, runs a telephone pre-selection, interviews shortlisted people and prepares full evaluation dossiers, takes references and can add psychological or graphological testing where a client wants it. The firm has traded under the Head Searching name since 2007.

The practice is built on its networks rather than on advertising. Head Searching holds a network covering the large majority of graduates from the French grandes écoles and maintains an updated database of several tens of thousands of candidates, which lets it identify people in a personalised, discreet and fast way. First identified candidates are presented in less than five weeks. Clients receive complete dossiers on every candidate put forward, along with reporting on how the assignment is progressing, and the cabinet organises the client interviews with the selected shortlist. Every recruitment is guaranteed for the duration of the période d'essai, so a client is covered if the hire does not work out.

The office is at 231 rue Saint Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, with a switchboard on +33 (0)1 43 80 81 10. Support does not stop at the offer stage: the cabinet accompanies both candidate and client personally during and after integration into the business. Head Searching points to the loyalty of its client base as the proof of its commitment to quality and service, and the combination of rigour, sector specialisation and a shared passion for entrepreneurship is what it puts forward to companies choosing a search partner in Paris.