Recruitment
Our unique recruitment methodology necessitates fully understanding the opportunity, usually quickly achieved having completing hundreds and hundreds of retained recruitments over more than three decades. Then working with you, reviewing the job description, creating a candidate profile, sourcing, interviewing, profiling and introducing you to your shortlisted candidates. All undertaken with integrity and professionalism to enhance your reputation.
With the increasing skills shortage at all levels, it’s now more important than ever to make your company the most attractive destination for candidates. We recognize newly recruited individuals, however talented or senior, do need support. So we provide you and your new employee with a comprehensive development programme based on interviews, assessments and profiling. This gives you:
Outstanding team members who contribute quickly with 65% promoted within 3 years
An increased return on your investment lies behind the fact that 85% of clients place repeat recruitments with us
Increased retention of exceptional people, average tenure over 6 years
Highly motivated new team members who know the value you place on your people
Our professionalism makes your company stand out as the one to join
“Speaking as both a candidate and client RG are always highly professional”
Individual Assessment & Development
Personality profiling provides a detailed view of individual traits and characteristics. Centred around questionnaires, the responses enable an understanding of how an individual may act or perform in their current or future role. This is possible not only because we are qualified to use the assessment tools but also due to our vast experience. This enables us to understand your sector and it’s key business drivers.
Our clients rely on us to advise them at key times in their business cycle.
Reorganization and succession planning resulting in significant reduction in recruitment costs
Post merger or acquisition speeds integration and significantly reduces disruption
Developing key individuals enhances motivation and increases retention
and of course Recruitment.
The assessment and development processes we employ are widely recognised as being one of the most thorough and effective available.
Analysis - personality profiling, team role evaluation and questionnaires
In person open discussion of the data
Creating a comprehensive report covering personality traits, likely team roles and their significance within a detailed development strategy
Implementation of the development journey in conjugation with the individual and company
Quarterly reviews of progress and refining of strategies
“I have worked with RG over the years and have been very impressed with the accuracy of their personality profiling”
Increasing Team Effectiveness
Truly high performing teams are not common across the organisational landscape. Nevertheless, the aspiration to accelerate team development and enhance performance remains a key aspiration of most organisations. However, seldom is the actual effectiveness of a team audited.
To generate quantitative information on team effectiveness we first gain an understanding of your team’s business goals, win their trust and only then commence a bespoke programme. At that point we work together with your team to define the factors which they consider important – such as: communication, organisation, creativity, clarification of roles and responsibilities, before demonstrating how they can be measured.
In addition we provide an understanding of the possible team roles each individual may fulfil:
Defining the characteristics of an effective team, reviewing potential team roles, and devising a survey template
Initiating a series of audits, discussing the results at each stage and setting the next set of key objectives
“I asked RG to devise a programme to enhance the effectiveness of my STL. The team’s performance improved dramatically as the process unfolded and also open and honest discussion became very much the norm. This support helped everybody work together and maximise our effectiveness.”
Mentoring for Business
Mentorship is a way to hone professional skills and learn invaluable lessons from someone with years or decades of practical knowledge. Thus they understand your challenges and also the business driver which operate in your world.
Our experience is probably second to none
Our mentoring credentials span the first tentative steps you might take when founding your company through its growth to possible acquisition/merger or exit.
So together we can help you and your business grow wherever you currently are:
Startup - advisor to University Warwick Venture Centre their incubator hub or technology startups
Owner and family-controlled businesses – key partner in BDO’s family-owned business initiative
Education public and private sector - Higher, Tertiary and Secondary
Membership organisations - Make UK, Lighting Association, Vistage, Camping and Caravaning Club, MD2MD
Multinationals – Medtronic, LINPAC Allibert, DHL, Lego, Trelleborg
Manufacturing, far too many to mention
“RG has been such a great help in helping me become a better Executive”
Media and Communication
We are delighted to have Carole Peters heading up this service. To those of you who have not come across Carole she has enjoyed a very distinguished career in national radio and television news before branching into making over 50 documentaries for BBC, ITV, Channel Four, Channel Five, Discovery USA, The History Channel USA, Channel Plus NZTV.
Too many to mention them all but you may have seen The Derek Bentley Documentaries; British Serial Killers; A Time to Kill one hour special; Harold Shipman; Great Disaster including her BAFT nominated Aberfan documentary
Then popular entertainment helping devise and directing both Timeteam and Changing Rooms.
The demands on you may vary enormously. It might be a keynote speech or a presentation to your team, clients, key stakeholders, shareholders. It could be to promote your products or company on camera or a podcast. Whatever it is, we can help you and your company be super professional.
Should a crisis happen, and they do, it’s too late, for media training.
Equally in your efforts to raise awareness through your media presence every opportunity should be maximised.
We can work with your company to make you and your employees better communicators and presenters – providing:
Ongoing media consultation
Annual General Meetings facilitation
In-house communication training
Producing your corporate videos
Preparation for a media launch
Sales Pitches/Presentations
Assisting with your messaging for an IPO
Design and manage your digital media strategy
Press releases
“Carole is an exception communicator and has the ability to make you suddenly aware of how you can get your message across more effectively.”
Outplacement and Career Management
Our Outplacement or Out Boarding programmes are run by recruitment professionals who also have extensive outplacement experience and excellent mentoring skills. We really can help individuals obtain a new role or explore fresh alternatives.
The programme is modular allowing individuals to tailor the process to exactly meet their needs. We strongly advise the selection of the Induction and Your Campaign modules. All candidates receive our continuing commitment of support. Venues can be selected to suit individual or simply undertake the modules online.
Induction - aims/objectives - psychology of change, - profiling - career aims creating the CV and Linkedin profile - combating prejudice
Beating the assessment process - psychometric and ability papers- interviews, assessment centres demystified - your strengths and limitations
Your campaign - the market place - your approach – networking- resource management - recruitment diary constantly updated and reviewed
Alternative options - self-employment - interim management – consultancy - franchises, financial management - risk analysis
Our continuing commitment is to support you until you find the right role:
Telephone hot line during office hours
Networking
Advice on positions
Personal endorsement to recruitment companies
Join our Networking Group and gain access to search posts
“RG helped me find exactly the right post – they were highly professional and very supportive.”
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