When you make the decision to hire a search firm, it’s important to select the right one. Not all search firms are alike. Below we have listed the advantages of working with our firm, which we believe make us your best option for retaining or engaging a search firm.
Understanding of our client’s industry and their specific needs
With over 20 years of experience placing professionals exclusively within the insurance and financial sectors, we maintain a keen perspective on the market. With that said, we also understand that no two clients are exactly alike. To uncover the ideal candidate for a client’s particular position, it is imperative that we thoroughly understand the parameters of the assignment, as well as our client’s culture and company goals.
With each new search assignment, we follow a time-tested process that begins with a thorough position analysis. We probe the hiring authority with questions uniquely designed to “flush out” information that will help us qualify and attract candidates to the position, and eventually whittle the list down to the best candidates we believe will meet the client’s requirements and needs.
Special qualifications
We are continually educating ourselves in the field of Psychology, particularly in the field of Human Resources. We have the skills required to gauge the emotional intelligence (an attribute in the human psyche that is central to many aspects of life, especially job success) of candidates, i.e., self-awareness, social awareness, adaptability and other emotional competencies.
Also, many of our successful placements involve candidates that have been with their current employer for a long time, on average 7+ years. Our background in Psychology has helped us to work through any hesitations these candidates were having, successfully moving them forward in the process (interview) and eventually a career move (offer acceptance).
Proven track record
It is important that your company be professionally represented and properly branded in the market. With your best foot forward, you’ll be able to attract top candidates to your position. We believe our experience and reputation in the industry (award winning and national billing leaders) has contributed greatly to candidates being familiar with our name. Should we feel an opportunity fits their interests and skills, they always take our calls promptly and respond to our emails with enthusiasm.
To quickly uncover candidates, our office utilizes one of the best human capital software resources in the industry. This powerful resource tool provides the most accurate and detailed information on potential candidates and allows us to track their career objectives.
Also, much like detectives, we have been professionally trained to “deep-dive” the internet (social media outlets) for any additional information on candidates that will help us qualify them, and if appropriate, attract them to a position.
Most importantly, we are traditional recruiters recruiting directly from your competitors. We have the skills to cold call and approach a passive candidate and attract them to your opportunity.
Our time-tested process
We cannot stress how important it is to follow a process when sourcing, qualifying and hiring top-talent. From thoroughly assessing a client’s unique needs to the interview/offer stage and then effective follow through, we have made it our core philosophy to never falter from our unique and effective process. For a detailed breakdown of our process, click here.
Your strategic partner in talent acquisition
While we would love to assist you in finding top talent for your current opportunity, in most instances we also strive to become your strategic partner in talent acquisition. When compared to other low-cost hiring methods, our cost per hire is in many cases the same or lower, but more importantly, much more effective.
We bring to the table skills and resources that you may not possess or have the time to employ, that will enable you to attract, hire and retain the best people in your industry.
As a boutique firm, we have the time it takes to provide hands-on personal service to gain a good perspective and understanding of your company, it’s culture, structure, products and services and overall goals. During the entire process, our clients always have direct access to the managing recruiter heading up their search.
We work with clients of all sizes, those with 2 employees up to over 10,000. However, because we only work with a few select clients at a time, there aren’t too many candidate pools in which we are restricted from approaching.