Éric Busch and Noémie Dijon have launched Neosapiens, a headhunting firm for the tech sector that focuses first and foremost on the results to be achieved. Photo: NeoSapiens

Éric Busch and Noémie Dijon have launched Neosapiens, a headhunting firm for the tech sector that focuses first and foremost on the results to be achieved. Photo: NeoSapiens

Going against the grain of the new "recruitment factories", as he calls them, Éric Busch is back with Neosapiens. Working alongside Noémie Dijon, the entrepreneur intends to start the process of recruiting executives for the technology, innovation and startup sectors by better defining the results expected.

"Just because someone has 30 years' experience doesn't mean they're any good! Or that they have the skills that will enable them to fulfil the mission they are given." Since the sale of the online recruitment platform Nexten.io, now Cyberr, has been busy. The entrepreneur, who is clearly as passionate about HR as ever, is back in the recruitment business with .

Neosapiens, he said, is a "recruitment agency of excellence for tomorrow's leaders", offering tailor-made recruitment for senior managers in tech, innovation and startups. It focuses on C-levels, VPs, directors, managers and other experts in the fields of artificial intelligence, tech, IT and human resources. But not directly in cybersecurity, for which the startup has teamed up with Cyberr.

"Our starting point", stated Busch, "is not the job description, but the results expected by the recruiting company, then the mission and only then the profile".

Scoreboard based on 52 questions

"We have refined a scoreboard based on 52 questions that enable us to know exactly what the company wants to achieve with a profile," said co-founder Noémie Dijon, a seasoned professional who has held strategic positions such as global brand manager at Ferrero and category manager at Gopuff.

“Screening is completely different. In one case, a company of 600 people looking for an IT leader, the exercise was very interesting, in the difference between the initial job description and the expected results highlighted by our methodology,” said Busch, who also founded Ike and IT Nation. “I've drawn inspiration from that in almost all my entrepreneurial adventures.”

And before the recruiting company agrees to pay a percentage of the recruit's annual salary to find this rare pearl, it has to be found. Here, not only are the pair relying on their network, nurtured over many years, but they are also counting on their visibility. To this end, they will be launching 'Nouvelles espèces', a podcast which already has six episodes produced, featuring well-known guests such as , , and . "They'll be coming in to give us feedback on their experience, sharing in a very qualitative way how to recruit well, how to exercise leadership and how to build solid teams."

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