Recruitment & Selection
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Recruitment: finding a pool of suitable candidates.
With the development of the internet, a changed economic situation affecting supply and demand, and the convergence of different sourcing methods, knowing where and how to look for candidates can often be difficult. It may also be difficult to obtain impartial, best advice from recruitment organisations that often have a specific commitment to a particular method of sourcing candidates, be it the internet, a database, search or the print media.
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Selection: choosing the most suitable candidates and avoiding mistakes.
Understanding each role in the light of the wider situation and future challenges is a critical part of identifying what capabilities are going to be needed for success. Whilst the right experience may qualify someone for the position, it is their personal abilities, attributes and attitudes that enable them to apply that experience in a given situation.
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Project Management: running large recruitment and selection projects.
Such projects take a good deal of planning, are time-consuming and often pull people away from their normal roles, usually to the disadvantage of the organisation itself. Additionally, bringing in a large number of individuals can affect the organisations culture/values unless real care is used to select the right people, either to fit in or to act as positive change agents.
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Board Level Services 'Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.' - General Norman Schwarzkopf
Making right, or wrong, leadership choices at the top of an organisation determines its very future - its ability to thrive or survive. Never has the role of the Board been more under the spotlight. Hence, bringing the right people into the Boardroom or the Senior Management Team is one of the most strategically important choices that an organisation can make. Wrong choices will be incredibly costly, not only in financial terms but also in loss of confidence, reputation and momentum.