Unlike regular consultants and recruiters, executive search consultants are handling more demanding requirements for the companies. These are consultancy firms that the client hire to help them find high-tier employees. The consultants deal in finding and screening candidates for their client companies for top-positions like CEOs, Senior Vice President, and Vice President. Since these are high-profile posts, any standard recruitment agency neither has the reach or contact with top-management employees to refer to the client’s such top-management executives.
Companies that are looking to hire someone for the top-ranks or want to replace the CEO cannot go public with such hirings. What they do is that they contract an executive recruitment consultant agency and asks them to find a suitable candidate for the firm. With reach to a pool of some of the employees working at the senior management level, the recruitment consultants can help the companies to get some lead and start interviews with potential candidates.