Want to recruit top-level talent like a pro? This course will show you how.

Executive Search and Headhunting are more than just buzzwords — they’re elite recruitment skills that separate average recruiters from top performers. Whether you’re filling C-level roles or hard-to-reach positions, you’ll learn how to target, engage, and close high-value candidates other recruiters can’t even find.

In this hands-on training, you’ll master every stage of the headhunting process — from building a job order and scanning the market, to cold outreach, handling counter-offers, and closing the deal. Learn the exact frameworks and tools used by executive search firms to consistently win at the highest level.

This course is based on 20+ years of experience in the field and designed to give you ready-to-use templates, scripts, maps, and strategies you can apply immediately.

What’s Inside the Course

1. Foundations of Executive Search and Headhunting

• Key differences from traditional recruiting

• History and structure of high-level recruitment

• Process overview and essential tools

Key differences from traditional recruiting

History and structure of high-level recruitment

Process overview and essential tools

2. Job Order Intake & Hiring Manager Sync

• What makes a great job order

• Understanding A-players and Most Placeable Candidates (MPCs)

• Creating a compelling recruiting strategy and scorecard

• Tools: Pitch templates, search maps, job text frameworks

What makes a great job order

Understanding A-players and Most Placeable Candidates (MPCs)

Creating a compelling recruiting strategy and scorecard

Tools: Pitch templates, search maps, job text frameworks

3. Market Scanning & Pre-Search

• Estimating market size and salary expectations

• Analyzing employer attractiveness and funnel depth

• Creating a recruitment map and generating a market report

Estimating market size and salary expectations

Analyzing employer attractiveness and funnel depth

Creating a recruitment map and generating a market report

4. Building a Target List

• Strategic networking and sourcing channels

• Contact-finding and cold call techniques

• Gathering competitive intelligence

Strategic networking and sourcing channels

Contact-finding and cold call techniques

Gathering competitive intelligence

5. Long List Development & Sourcing

• Structuring long lists with real company and candidate data

• Automation tools and sourcing platforms

• Ready-to-use long list templates

Structuring long lists with real company and candidate data

Automation tools and sourcing platforms

Ready-to-use long list templates

6. Creating a Short List & Engaging Candidates

• Outreach messaging and response strategies

• Candidate analysis and interview prep

• Motivation mapping and selling the role

• Short list and interview presentation best practices

Outreach messaging and response strategies

Candidate analysis and interview prep

Motivation mapping and selling the role

Short list and interview presentation best practices

7. Advanced Headhunting & Offer Strategy

• How to handle passive candidates

• Counter-offer prevention

• Coaching hiring managers to close top talent

• Offer delivery scripts and follow-up methods

How to handle passive candidates

Counter-offer prevention

Coaching hiring managers to close top talent

Offer delivery scripts and follow-up methods

8. Finalizing the Offer and Candidate Support

• Designing and delivering a winning offer

• Preparing for negotiation and objections

• Helping the candidate transition and onboard

• Final checklists and closure techniques

Designing and delivering a winning offer

Preparing for negotiation and objections

Helping the candidate transition and onboard

Final checklists and closure techniques

Ready to become the recruiter everyone calls when a critical position needs to be filled?

Join now and start mastering the skills of headhunting and executive search — the most lucrative and respected niche in recruitment.