Your business deserves the very best leaders. Recruiting leaders is different to hiring for any other position. Leaders will have responsibilities and tasks unlike any other employee within the business. Here at Davis Associates, we here to help you to hire the most outstanding leaders.

From recruiting to onboarding and so much more, we have put together this comprehensive guide to help you every step of the way with your leadership recruitment. As expert business psychologists and executive coaches, we want to share our knowledge to help you hire first-rate leaders for your business.

Why is Leadership Recruitment So Important?

The success of a company can be attributed to many different aspects of a business — from a resilient sales force, to effective marketing and dedicated customer services. However, your leaders will have a huge impact. The passion, positivity and motivation of a leader will play a huge role in your company and cannot be understated.

A study by Harvard Business Review identified a strong “ethical and moral standard” and “communicating clear expectations” as highly rated attributes of a leader. We’ll show you how you can identify these valuable qualities and more throughout the recruitment process.

If you’ve worked hard to create a one-of-a-kind, successful business, you need employees and leaders who will help the business to thrive. It all starts with the recruitment.

How Will This Leadership Recruitment Guide Help Me?

As experts in the field of recruitment assessment, executive coaching, and tailored leadership development programmes, we know all the questions and queries you might have during leadership recruitment.

We’ve broken up this guide into sections so you can quickly find the most relevant parts that you’re looking for. If you want further guidance or advice about a certain aspect of leadership or manager recruitment, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

All of the methods and topics we discuss can be applied to all roles, not just leaders. If you want to hire new employees with the potential to rise through the ranks into a position of senior management responsibility or even assess existing employees as part of your succession planning process, you will find value in these ideas and approaches.

What This Leadership Recruitment Guide Won’t Tell You

It’s important to note that we are not recruitment agents and don’t get involved in candidate searches or forwarding CVs. As business psychologists, we believe this is important in order to remain critically objective and impartial in our candidate assessments.  So this guide will concentrate on best-practice tips on the leadership assessment and interviewing of candidates, as well as onboarding practices to help your leadership recruitment process, rather than the task of candidate search.

Leadership Recruitment Methods

Here, we will outline the very best recruitment assessment methods. All these can be practically applied to your business and leadership recruitment process.

• Using Competency Assessment Techniques
• A Guide to Executive Interviews
• Leadership Behavioural Interview Questions
• Executive & Leadership Assessment
• Business Psychology in Recruitment

Effective Employee Onboarding Methods

Once you’ve hired the ideal leadership candidate, the onboarding process is there to ensure that your new employee gets off to the best possible start. In this section, we will discuss the most effective employee onboarding processes. We’ll focus particularly on new managers and leaders.

• How to Onboard a New Manager
• Free Onboarding Checklist for New Managers

Do you want more help with the objective assessment of candidates as part of your leadership recruitment process? Contact Davis Associates for a FREE, no-obligation consultation with one of our expert business psychologists.