Redefining The Executive Search Process in Greece and Abroad with Experienced Recruiters
Keller is an executive search firm geared toward sourcing the best talent for your business using our extensive expertise and global network. Our consultants are experts in various industries and can address hiring needs across different levels of management. Keller’s headhunters can also source leadership from anywhere in the world.
Our solutions go beyond standard hiring and we provide support services like leadership development where necessary.
Greece is known for its high living standard, offering accessible healthcare, a slow and quiet lifestyle, low cost of living, and friendly people. This makes Greece a popular destination for digital nomads, retirees, and expats. The main contributors to the economy are the agriculture, fishing, merchant shipping, tourism, and service sectors.
Unfortunately, the weak economic state of the country since 2009 has had a negative impact on the ease of doing business at scale. The taxation system has become another obstacle to the business environment and accessing regulatory information can be challenging.
Greece also faces local challenges that may make it difficult for employers to find the right candidate. The labor market is characterized by an aging work population and large labor shortages related to skill mismatches. There are also bureaucratic obstacles, such as slow visa processing, and economic constraints, like relatively low wages, that make it difficult to find foreign talent. However, using an executive search firm like Keller, with its team of industry experts and access to a broad talent pool in Greece and abroad, can help you overcome these challenges.
At Keller, we pride ourselves on our commitment to providing clients with high-quality staffing services, excellent and prompt outcomes, top-notch candidates, and recruitment solutions customized to meet the needs of our clientele. These qualities make Keller stand out above the rest as a leading executive search firm.
Keller’s tailored executive search approach, extensive industry experience, and global reach have helped us become globally recognized as a leader in the field, assisting clients in Greece and beyond.
Leadership styles and work ethic can vary significantly between countries. As recruiters, we ensure that the candidates we recommend integrate well into the multinational companies we serve. Executives have a major impact on the companies they work for, and when they are not a good fit for the company culture, the effect can be detrimental. For this reason, Keller provides leadership advisory services to ensure candidates transition well into existing teams.
Executive search can be an intensive process that puts pressure on HR teams when they do not have the time and resources needed to fill open leadership positions. In such cases, outsourcing the recruitment process to an agency like Keller can significantly reduce the strain on your team.
At Keller, we understand that there are many different factors involved in a successful executive search. That is why we value continued learning so that we can stay abreast of both international and local market trends in order to provide valuable insights to our clients. This, combined with our international network of talent, allows Keller to find candidates for companies from around the world.
In addition to our executive search services, our extensive experience in the industry allows us to offer a comprehensive suite of recruitment solutions designed to ensure successful placements and help drive organizational success. These services include talent assessment, leadership development, succession planning, and workforce transformation.
We put in effort to understand the work ethic and culture of our client’s business before sourcing executives. Our tried and trusted executive search procedure begins with identifying and understanding client needs and expectations. This information becomes a valuable tool we use to find and recruit the best-suited candidates for the available position.
Because we look for more than just expertise and are committed to your success, we engage in detailed screening practices on all our candidates. The candidates are first assessed to ensure that they have the qualifications needed to perform well in the vacant role. Next, they undergo advanced psychometric testing to ensure that they have a personality type that will align well with the existing team.
Background checks are also run to check for criminal records and to verify the authenticity of their references. Because our screening process is so comprehensive, we’ve found that it is the most effective way to filter out unsuitable candidates. Those who are left after screening are more likely to be ideally suited to the role and the company’s culture.
Once screening is complete, we compile the remaining candidates into a shortlist that is handed over to the client for consideration.
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At Keller, continuous learning is one of our core values. In order to maintain our high level of expertise, we stay up to date with the latest developments and key findings in the field of executive recruitment.
It is our mission to go above and beyond to ensure that we match clients with their ideal candidates. To do this, our team of experts leverages its collective first-hand experience in the field of recruitment, deep technical knowledge of local and international markets, and impressive global network of candidates.
Keller’s staffing experts have many years of experience in recruiting candidates for many different sectors. Here is a list of the many industries we provide expert executive search services for:
As a premier executive search firm, we leverage our vast recruitment network to find candidates to fill various senior positions in your company. Here is a list of executive roles we are often requested to fill:
The sectors and positions listed here is only a small sample of what we can do. It is important to note that neither of these lists is comprehensive, and they do not display our full range of services or industry expertise.
One example of how our past experiences have shaped our current methods happened in the early years of our company, when we were still a small agency in Greece. As a new recruitment agency with only a small client pool, we made use of a generic recruitment method which seemed sufficient in meeting our client’s needs. As our firm continued to grow, we were eventually approached by a high-profile client looking to fill an executive role within their organization.
As we trusted our standardized methodology, we applied it to this project as well – believing that we had found the ideal candidate for our client. However, we quickly realized that this was not the case.
The placed candidate struggled to integrate into the client’s existing office culture, and could not fulfill the responsibilities expected of them. Although this experience might have been challenging in the short run, it offered us the opportunity to improve our approach to executive-level recruitment.
This experience helped us realize that while a general approach may work for a smaller client base, it had many limitations when filling senior-level positions for larger clients. It also taught us how critical it is to make use of a tailored approach instead. By using a more flexible method we are able to offer each client a more exclusive service with more precise results.
Since then, we have refined our approach. Our current approach is more accurate and effective when placing executive candidates, and has allowed us to gain an even stronger reputation as a trustworthy executive search agency.
Today, we are widely recognized as a leader in the executive search industry and have made a significant impact on the world of recruitment, by pioneering industry-leading methods for headhunting and hiring.
We understand that even the most tailored approach has its limitations and can sometimes result in the wrong candidate being chosen. In these situations, we provide a 90 day guarantee. We promise to replace any recruit who does not fully meet your expectations free of charge, as long as all issues are brought to our attention within the first 90 days of employment.
Keller’s name is synonymous with recruiting and we have, in many ways, helped to shape how recruitment is understood.
As a prominent partner of NPAworldwide, we have a long-standing reputation for quality and reliability. Our experts are highly qualified and have distinguished themselves through their professional and academic qualifications. Our team members also have hands-on experience in various industries, giving them the connections and specialized skills necessary to match clients with the best talent available in their sector.
At Keller, our experience in serving clients on a global scale, including companies from countries like Greece, has provided us with valuable insights into the best ways to approach executive recruiting. The experiences of the team shaped the methodology over the years. Region-based obstacles like those faced in Athens, Greece have further helped us refine our approach. Our history of continued improvement has allowed us to become the widely recognized executive recruitment leader we are today.
At Keller, we value transparency and make use of ethical and responsible search practices. As part of our privacy policy, we are committed to protecting all sensitive candidate and client data.
Human resource departments often find themselves strained trying to meet the demands of executive search. Keller can help relieve this strain through our extensive executive search services. While we are equipped to handle different levels of management, we focus mostly on C-level positions, which play a central role in the organization’s success. We focus on ensuring that these leaders integrate well with your business.
We are dedicated to supporting Greece’s culture of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Our approach to recruitment is impartial and we make sure to select the best candidate for the job, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, age, or religious beliefs.
We take your success seriously and therefore focus our efforts on assessing and screening candidates to ensure the best fit.
Even with our advanced recruiting methods, there may still be situations where we don’t meet client expectations. We guarantee to respond to all criticism and inquiries in a respectful and constructive manner.
Contact Keller today and let us assist you on your way to success.
"Keller has completely changed how we handle recruiting. They've provided us with great candidates, and they definitely exceeded our expectations."
- Maria K., Chief Human Resources Officer
"What we love about Keller is that they maintain clear communication throughout the process. The candidates they delivered are very high quality, and it's been such a game changer working with their team."
- Kostantina T., Recruiting Director
"Partnering with Keller has been one of our best strategic moves. We found their solutions very proactive and they've consistently provided us with great people."
- Christos L., Head of HR