This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

510 tools for executive search in one course: 15 downloadable tool files, 353 ready-to-use templates, AI prompts, scripts, checklists and scorecards, 54 models and methods, and 88 services and apps shown on screen.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in your next search.

Why executive search is a different job

Senior executives do not answer job ads. They are rarely looking, they have options, and one careless message closes the door. The hiring manager expects a mapped market, a reasoned shortlist and a clear picture of each finalist, not a pile of profiles. A recruiter who works the usual way loses both the candidate and the client.

What changes after this course

You take a job order so that the search has clear criteria. You map target companies and know who sits where. You find contact details and write a first message a busy executive will answer. You run structured interviews and compare finalists on evidence. You bring the offer to acceptance and prepare the candidate for a counteroffer. And you can show the client the work behind your fee.

What is inside: 510 tools, counted file by file

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 15 downloadable tool files for screening, interviews and final decisions
• 353 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 118 templates and sample documents: job order, sourcing strategy, LinkedIn candidate outreach message, candidate presentation script
• 54 ready AI prompts: Boolean search generation, candidate outreach writing, competency profile generation, finalist comparison
• 47 question lists and conversation scripts: hiring manager intake interview, candidate referrals, candidate objection handling scripts, passive candidate headhunting script
• 46 step-by-step procedures and workflows: search map development, LinkedIn company mapping, recruiter reference sourcing, corporate email discovery
• 44 checklists: executive search suitability, job order intake, candidate profile analysis, job offer
• 17 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: job offer attractiveness, candidate evaluation priorities matrix, competency proficiency scale, potential versus experience hiring matrix
• 11 search strings: LinkedIn X-ray search, current company and tenure queries, relocation sourcing keywords, personal email sourcing queries
• 8 formulas and metric sets: hiring quality metrics, screening performance metrics, competency assessment metrics, recruiter performance metrics
• 8 other working tools: Boolean search, team lead presentation assessment, hiring decision tree, recruitment funnel analysis worksheet
• 54 models and methods explained with examples: Korn Ferry Four Dimensions, SHL Universal Competency Framework, nine-box grid, Big Five personality
• 88 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Hunter, RocketReach, ContactOut, Lusha, ZoomInfo, hireEZ, ChatGPT and others

Where the tools are

• Executive search core (4 sections, 107 tools). Job order intake, market mapping and target lists, longlists and shortlists, outreach to C-level candidates and offer negotiation.
• Executive candidate screening and leadership assessment (122 tools). CV screening, structured interviews, competency assessment, tests and business cases, final scorecards. All 15 tool files are here.
• LinkedIn executive search (67 tools). Filters, Boolean search, X-ray search, Sales Navigator and browser plugins.
• OSINT for executive search (66 tools). Search strategy, Google operators, open sources and contact discovery.
• Recruitment funnel and sales (102 tools). Outreach, messages, funnel metrics and work with the client.
• Head of recruitment (171 tools). Team metrics, processes, recruiter performance and career ladder.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I first met real executive search as a client, at the TV channel STB, when we were looking for a head of the news service. The consultant did not come with a list of candidates. She spoke as if she had a file on each person: who really makes the decisions in a newsroom, who is unhappy and on what terms they would move. It was detective work. The global firms that pitched to us quoted a 35 percent fee and a minimum of 50,000 dollars per search, and behind that fee stood a team: a lead consultant, a researcher, a sourcer and a certified assessor. This course shows that work from the inside.

How to use the course

Watch the first four sections in order to run one search from intake to offer. Then use the rest as a reference: section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 41 lectures across 10 sections, 19 hours
• 55 downloadable resources: 15 tool files and the lecture presentations
• 510 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
• A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Take one senior vacancy you have now. Open the lecture on job order intake, run the intake interview with the hiring manager and fill in the job order template. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.