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Headhunting direct search recruiting - Choice HR

Premium-level headhunting creates value through people

We help hiring managers, HR professionals, and executives to success in defining competency profiles, marketing jobs and reaching out directly to candidates. We modify the process approach to your specific goals! Our most popular service is hybrid recruitment, which combines hyper-targeted recruiting campaign and direct contacting.

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Here’s what our clients tells abour the collaboration with us!

  • We are an expert in information services and data modeling for the construction industry, and we are growing and expanding across the Nordic region. The Choice team conducted a direct search for us, which not only helped us find the expertise we were looking for but also gave us a deeper understanding of our target candidate group.

    Arto Nieminen, COO
    Nordic BIM Group

  • We operate in the cloud services industry, which is constantly growing and evolving. Choice helped us recruit a marketing expert efficiently while ensuring a positive candidate experience. The Choice team asked key questions during the initial assessment and challenged us on the content of our job posting. The expert we recruited had nothing but praise for the entire process!

    Hanna Valjakka, CMO
    Sulava Oy

  • The collaboration went smoothly and the process moved along quickly. We received support and answers throughout the entire process. Choice also asked important and even tough questions during the initial assessment and challenged us to explain why we should be the ones to hire them. The recruited professional has also praised the process.

    Juhana Lamberg, CEO
    Faros & Com

  • As a player in the energy sector, we know that competition for experienced professionals is fierce. You have to stand out in ways other than just by defining your attractiveness and retention factors. Choice helped me, as a hiring manager, find the best professionals for commercial roles.

    Petteri Tarkio, Sales Director (Nordics)
    HögforsGST

  • Choice is an excellent partner for those looking to reach passive job seekers. Its approach is based on a data- and experience-driven understanding of the diverse job-seeking landscape, as well as multi-channel outreach. Choice also provides valuable insights for strategic business development.

    HR Director / Management team member
    Maintenance and Real Estate
Headhunting and direct search - Choice HR

Choice HR is a modern recruitment partner and employer marketing agency! 💜

We are a career partner for our growth and development-oriented clients, helping them not only with finding a right talent but also with attracting and retaining the best people. Our typical client understands the importance and purpose of both future talent and current personnel for business development, as well as for the organization’s competitiveness and efficiency.

Choice’s approach to identifying, reaching, and recruiting the right talent is genuinely employer-brand-driven. This means a deep understanding of key elements of employer branding, such as the employer promise, attractiveness and retention factors, and how to communicate them. Every single recruitment process is carried out in a way that combines strengthening the employer brand, a positive candidate experience, and careful candidate evaluation, including suitability assessments.

Most searches for specialists, senior professionals, or executives are conducted as hybrid searches, combining direct outreach with targeted advertising campaigns aimed at the target audience. Hybrid recruitment increases employer visibility more broadly than direct recruitment alone, as we effectively utilize methods familiar from advertising-based recruitment. No job posting or campaign is published without proper profiling and the definition of key messages. At the same time, we’ll be upfront if we don’t feel we can help.

We’ll pitch you as an employer to candidates! Our team distills and communicates your organization’s attractiveness and retention factors, vision, cultural cornerstones, and story - in a credible, inspiring, and multi-channel way to your target audience. You’ll be served by both an Employer Branding and marketing professional and a team of recruiters and direct search consultants. Our team members have themselves served as hiring managers or leaders, so we have firsthand experience with the expectations and challenges that business operations place on recruitment. 

Choice HR is a recruitment partner and employer marketing agency! 

We are a career partner for our growth and development-oriented clients, helping them not only with finding a right talent but also with attracting and retaining the best people. Our typical client understands the importance and purpose of both future talent and current personnel for business development, as well as for the organization’s competitiveness and efficiency.

Choice’s approach to identifying, reaching, and recruiting the right talent is genuinely employer-brand-driven. This means a deep understanding of key elements of employer branding, such as the employer promise, attractiveness and retention factors, and how to communicate them. Every single recruitment process is carried out in a way that combines strengthening the employer brand, a positive candidate experience, and careful candidate evaluation, including suitability assessments.

Most searches for specialists, senior professionals, or executives are conducted as hybrid searches, combining direct outreach with targeted advertising campaigns aimed at the target audience. Hybrid recruitment increases employer visibility more broadly than direct recruitment alone, as we effectively utilize methods familiar from advertising-based recruitment. No job posting or campaign is published without proper profiling and the definition of key messages. At the same time, we’ll be upfront if we don’t feel we can help.

We’ll pitch you as an employer to candidates! Our team distills and communicates your organization’s attractiveness and retention factors, vision, cultural cornerstones, and story—in a credible, inspiring, and multi-channel way to your target audience. You’ll be served by both an EB marketing professional and a recruiter. Our team members have themselves served as hiring managers or leaders, so we have firsthand experience with the expectations and challenges that business operations place on recruitment. 

Here’s how Choice’s professional recruitment process works:

The meeting to clarify requirements and project objectives is a crucial part of a successful overall process. It includes a discussion of the following topics: objectives, the recruitment approach, and expectations and challenges related to the role. We will also discuss factors that attract and retain talent, review your organization’s work culture, and discuss where and how we will reach candidates.

Once the offer is accepted, we will draw up a service agreement and a Data Processing Agreement (DPA).

We believe in clarity and consistency in everything we do, and we want to make our clients’ work easier, not harder.

All communication and documentation can be found in one place, accessible to the designated individuals in your organization. Applications or candidate discussions should not be conducted via email. Once the project platform has been opened, subsequent projects can also be managed there if you wish.

 

 

The recruitment process, including the launch of the search, professional direct outreach, and high-quality candidate screening, begins no later than the third business day after the signing of the engagement agreement—and usually sooner, as preparatory work is carried out systematically. The implementation of the search process is discussed in detail during the initial meeting, and the client has a clear understanding of how the right person will be found for the open position.

If there is a need for a broader Employer Branding and marketing package, we can help you too! 

A skilled recruitment specialist with extensive experience evaluates candidates based on their CVs, motivation, and cultural fit. We typically present 3–5 candidates to our clients by the second week of the project at the latest—and often even sooner. Since interview slots are already coordinated in your calendar at the project’s start, the schedule runs smoothly and the process moves forward continuously.

Once you, as the client, know who your top candidates are, we will have a certified work personality assessment for them. For executive searches, the testing can be supplemented with an emotional intelligence analysis. Our professionals have conducted over 700 assessments for various roles and are highly experienced in the field. Combined with the interview and other documentation, such as the resume, you, as the client, will have the tools to make a high-quality hiring decision and the necessary information for employment contract negotiations.

With Choice, the recruitment process doesn’t end when a person starts their new role; we have a standardized follow-up process to monitor the initial stages of employment with both the client and the new employee throughout the entire probationary period. This ensures that the collaboration starts as wished, and allows us to proactively address new colleague's feelings.

Our recruitment process always includes a final meeting where we review the feedback collected from candidates regarding the employer’s image and their experience with the recruitment process, which helps us improve our operations for the future.

We work with the industries below:

  • Security

    Defence, critical infra, security

  • Talous

    Economics, Administration, and Finance

  • Technology and Industry

    Hardware, automation, processes

  • IT

    Software, consultation, education

  • B2B-business and sales

    Marketing, sales, business dev

Our services for recruiting a senior specialist, a manager or a director:

Premium-level headhunting / direct search service

  • If you are unable or unwilling to publicly announce your recruitment needs, headhunting is the right choice for you!
  • The process is a combination of direct contacting, trustful career discussions, qualified evaluation process and the final phase talent assessments
  • Headhunting process can be executed 100% under the radar and anonymously
  • Choice premium-level headhunting always supports client's employer brand and is based on full confidentiality.
  • People-centric communication and honestly way of promoting both the role and your company is highly valued
  • As part of the headhunting process, we also execute target group and talent market analysis

A hybrid recruitment process combines direct search and marketing

  • Our most popular service is hybrid recruitment, which combines hyper-targeted marketing activities, that reflect the client’s brand identity and tone of voice, with effective direct outreach.
  • Talent assessments and candidate communications are, of course, included in the price
  • We help you define the ideal candidate profile, draft the job description or job posting, and manage the recruitment process from start to finish.
  • In addition to finding the right talent, our service strengthens your employer brand and creates long-term value for you as an employer 

Here’s what the candidates say about their collaboration with us:

  • I’ve been actively looking for a job for the past month and have participated in many recruitment processes. I can honestly say that your approach far surpasses any of my previous experiences. Thank you for your appreciation.

    Key Account Manager
    CityMark (Swedish information service company)

  • Thank you for actively reaching out to us candidates. When you promise to get back to us, you do. I’ve done recruitment myself and I know that a company’s reputation as an employer can be ruined very easily.

    Electric designer, recruiting
    Energy industry company

  • It’s great to work with a recruiter who really knows the client and honestly explains the strengths and areas for improvement in the company’s work culture.

    IT / Software specialist

FAQ

Today’s candidate could be tomorrow’s employee, customer, decision-maker, or partner. Simply put, treat your candidates the same way you would treat your customers. When you invest in the candidate experience, you simultaneously build a strong, attractive, and authentic employer brand. This impacts the organization’s appeal in the job market and, by extension, contributes to its business and financial success.

The power of word of mouth should not be underestimated either, as it can be particularly effective in closed circles where employers rarely have access.

A company’s success also depends on finding, recruiting, and retaining the right talent. The right talent maximizes their potential, fosters a sense of community among employees, attracts customers, and strengthens the company’s reputation as an employer.

 

When organizations turn to our team, they often want to find the best talent, but we frequently shift the conversation to who exactly are these “best” professionals they’re looking for? The word “best” means slightly different things to everyone, so there is no such thing as the “best” professional. There are only expectations, requirements, and goals against which the talent profile and talent market must be evaluated. Identifying the right talent involves a few key checkpoints that help assess what constitutes “the best.”

This can be examined from the perspective of 1) the company, 2) the role, and 3) the culture. The right talent meets some criteria in each area, but in most cases never meets all of them in every category. With the following three checkpoints, you can assess a candidate’s suitability for your organization even before discussing the talent profile with us.

Multi-method personnel assessment is a scientifically validated way to ensure smart hiring decisions. Its predictive value is greater than that of any single method.

It provides support and certainty for the assessment and selection decision, whether it involves replacement hires or hiring new employees. Furthermore, it is a valuable service for employees and the future supervisor! The insights gained from personality assessments also provide a solid foundation for onboarding new hires and supporting the line manager’s coaching efforts.

We assess the work personalities of top candidates based on five key areas, and candidates also take aptitude tests. At the client’s request, we can conduct role-specific assessments as a separate service, which means a deeper understanding of the traits correlated with success in different roles.

Our consultants emphasize that work personality testing is based on the applicant’s self-assessment as well as comparison to a norm group using psychometric algorithms. It is important to note that personality and abilities are not fixed; both may develop over time, through education, or as situational demands change. The reports describe expected or probable behavior in each area within a work context. Personality is not fixed. Choice’s recruitment service always includes personal assessment testing for top candidates.

For one time projects, we prefer a fixed price because it provides predictability and transparency. Pricing depends on the scope of the recruitment work and the hourly rate. The average prices for individual hybrid recruitment projects in 2023–2025 ranged from:

Junior level: €4,000–5,500

Specialist: €6,900–8,800

Managers and senior specialists: €8,400–12,000

Director / C-level role: €8,400–16,500

All prices are examples!  Please note that hybrid recruitment pricing includes, in addition to the actual recruitment process, candidate experience, and communication:

- Suitability personal assessments conducted by a certified consultant

- Job marketing through appropriate channels, platforms, and networks

- Reporting and new ideas

It’s also worth remembering that the more and more often you entrust us with your recruitment needs, the greater the synergy—and this is reflected in the price.

The following factors influence Choice’s service pricing:

- Labor costs, i.e., salaries

- Licenses for the ATS and candidate assessment platform

- Job marketing costs

Choice’s pricing remains reasonable, in part because we handle everything in-house—from recruitment marketing campaigns and media distribution to candidate assessments—based on over 15 years of industry experience.

With Choice, the client knows exactly how their investment is allocated. We have a very clear estimate of the number of hours required to carry out the recruitment process. We have conducted hundreds of recruitments across various industries and for different roles at various levels of complexity, so we have very precise data on what. 

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