Core Services

Our executive search process starts by gaining a detailed understanding of the unique characteristics, medium and long term goals of each client, the specific leadership roles and competencies needed to meet those goals, and the culture of the organisation. Focusing on these underlying qualities allows us to take a broader, more creative approach to identifying potential candidates which is a key requirement of search exercises in the modern market. Our consulting team draws on its high-level professional networks, industry knowledge and internal research resources to give it a broad reach in identifying potential candidates.

Our Assessment services provide a range of high-quality assessment and development solutions that can be constructed to provide bespoke assessment solutions for organisations across private, public and not-for-profit and private sectors. Our assessment services are typically used:

• To support leadership recruitment processes.
• To assess the existing leadership potential within organisations.
• To identify and develop future leaders as part of an existing talent management strategy.

Our team are experienced at working in parallel with, but independently of, our search consultants to provide a deeper understanding of personality profile, emotional intelligence, fluid intelligence and communication skills of shortlisted candidates to provide a deeper understanding of candidates’ behavioural styles and leadership qualities.

Our services are flexible and bespoke but are underpinned by our commitment to confidentiality, fairness & openness and a consistent duty of care towards those being assessed.

Our Consulting team are highly experienced in designing competency based assessments to evaluate previous experience and predicted performance.

Our business is based on long term relationships and through this approach we have assembled a network of independent experts with in depth experience covering a variety of sectors as well as private equity / venture capital, Plc and other challenging business environments. Our assessment expertise is complemented by a close collaboration with our industry-specific consultants who are available as independent interviewers and assessors to complement and provide rigour to our selection processes.

Our extensive initial pre-assignment research be delivered as a stand-alone project. Gathering market intelligence in relation to how organisations operate is key to our business and this in turn gives us a great insight into how companies are structured, their culture and reporting lines. This work typically consists of providing:

• Better understanding of competitor talent
• Assistance and support to in-house recruiters
• Direct feedback and understand of potential employees perception of clients business

We also offer a range of additional advisory services to assist our Clients with the development of their strategy for employing and retaining top talent. These include:

• Compensation Benchmarking
• Referencing
• Succession Planning and talent pipeline management
• Recruitment Process Design