Holding leading positions is a matter of trust!
In addition to technical specialization, TESK Group has been recruiting top managers for many years. This area of ours covers headhunting for engineering managers, production managers, operations managers, or even financial, commercial or HR management positions.
In 2023, we have had the opportunity to fill 10 management positions so far.
Among them were HR manager (several), chief accountant, project manager, technical manager (at a large meat company), quality manager (at a manufacturing company with many thousands of employees), warehouse manager, shift manager and sales manager. We have talked about this topic in recent weeks, but now we will ask the manager of our service what makes this area different, how the search and selection of managers works, what we focus on here at TESK when we provide this service to our partners.
Our interlocutor is Ákos Pintye, TESK's operational manager, who manages TESK's services.
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– Akos, How do you see the main challenges and difficulties in the search for a manager? Why do companies turn to headhunters?
P.A.: Holding leadership positions is a matter of trust. Obviously, it depends on the size of the company, but above a certain size of the organization, companies usually hire headhunters to fill positions of trust - such as senior managers. This is especially true for multinational companies. In addition to professional and human values, they look for the company culture in the candidate that fits into their future life, to whom they dare to entrust the management of certain areas of the company or even the entire company.
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– How to source candidates during executive searches? What methods work?
P.A.: Executive searches are conducted in discreet ways. The promo may be public, but afterwards the process is even more confidential than filling a non-management position. In many cases, the name of the search company is also not published publicly, because it is possible that for some reason the search is driven by a change of personnel. The search can be done from a recommendation, from your own previous database, through the LinkedIn social business media or from individual appeals to any other targeted narrow segment. Overall, the method takes the form of direct, confidential two-way communication.
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– What kind of management positions are there at TESK?
P.A.: If I look at the last 1-1.5 years, I can say that basically all areas of a manufacturing or trading company are covered by the range of senior management positions for which we searched and found suitable candidates. Be it the factory manager, engineering manager, sales manager, finance manager or, for example, most recently HR manager.
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– How is TESK's approach to recruiting managers different?
P.A.: Basically, here too, it is characteristic of us that we work with a guaranteed deadline, so it is in our interest to provide our clients with the right candidate within a fixed deadline. When there are such searches, we are aware that time is really money, there is a compelling reason why a company has decided to introduce a new senior manager. This is how we try to contribute to the future success of our customers.
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– What are the advantages of choosing a Hungarian partner instead of large international executive search companies, e.g. the TESK Group?
P.A.: I would mention 2 things here, speed and flexibility, in addition to discretion, of course. But I think this is true for all companies that deal with senior management selection. As a smaller company, we are able to select candidates fairly quickly based on the feedback from our clients, and we can flexibly monitor any changes during the process.
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– In which cases and to which companies would you recommend TESK Group's service? Who can TESK effectively help?
P.A.: Anyone who wants to know the right candidate in their circle by a certain deadline should contact us by all means.