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Understanding the need

An effective process depends on the right starting point. We will take time to meet you, to understand your business, the role you are seeking to fill, the person specification, career path, remuneration and timescales.

Assignment brief

This bespoke document is compiled to demonstrate our understanding of your need, and includes a timeline of the activities and processes we will undertake to complete the work. This document is also used to brief short-listed candidates.

Research

Combining our detailed market knowledge, and your requirements, we will undertake a thorough research project into the industry and discipline which you wish to recruit from. We will build a picture of organisation structures, responsibilities, remuneration etc and with yourselves determine which individuals and organisations you wish to target.

Confidential approaches are made to specific individuals to clarify their relevance and interest, and if a genuine interest is shown such individuals are invited to interview.

Interviewing

Our Directors and senior consultants conduct face to face meetings with prospective candidates to ascertain their skills, experiences, capabilities, aspirations and ambitions, and to confidentially brief them on the attractions of the position we are currently handling, albeit on a no names basis at this stage.

Selection and short-listing

On completion of interviewing we will select the strongest candidates, who meet the requirements of the assignment brief, and submit these to you. Each candidate submission will include a curriculum vitae and a candidate profile detailing strengths and weaknesses and other relevant information.

Candidate management

We will co-ordinate all interviewing and debriefing at each stage. We will maintain close contact with candidates throughout the process to maintain their interest right through to date of commencement of employment. Equally we will reject unsuccessful candidates in a professional and proper manner.

Review

Once the successful candidate has joined your organisation we will conduct a thorough debrief with you. This will score the whole process, including quality of short-list and generate potential learning points for future assignments.

Selection

Understanding the need
Assignment brief
Media selection

Working with our media buying partner, we will provide you with options and advice as to the most cost effective and appropriate media to use.

Advertisement design

We will write copy for you and co-ordinate design including clients’ logos and artwork to create the most attractive design possible for your needs.

Response management

Facilities will be set up to receive both electronic and enquiries via more traditional routes e.g. post, including direct telephone access for candidates to the consultant or Director managing the assignment.

Interviewing
Selection and short-listing
Candidate management
Review

Resourcing

Client requirements

We have a comprehensive approach to obtaining vacancy information, so ensuring we have a clear understanding of your need, and thus avoiding the submission of inappropriate candidates.

Candidate submissions

We will only submit to you curriculum vitae of candidates who meet your requirements as quantified above, and only on the express authority of the candidate concerned once properly briefed on the role by ourselves.

We will equally advise you if we have no relevant candidates and where appropriate make recommendations as to how to source such people.

Candidate management
Review

Assessment

We can provide a range of psychometric assessment tools including both ability testing and personality profiling as required. Please ask one of our consultants for more information and advice.