Overview
    The Beginning: Understanding Our Client Organization
    The Middle: Developing and Evaluating the Candidate Pool
    The End: Candidate Selection and Transition

Developing and Evaluating the Candidate Pool

The second stage of the search process involves developing and executing the search strategy — where we will go, whom we will target. Most of our active communication involves extensive telephone networking with a wide array of prospective sources and candidates. We review our extensive database, research target companies, mobilize appropriate professional networks, and contact sources that we have found to be reliable. Using the networks we have established, we make every effort to ensure that candidate pools reflect diversity in terms of gender and ethnicity.

Our status reports are the second deliverable in the search process.

As we develop candidate pools, we identify the candidates who appear to match most closely the requirements of the position description and in whom our clients have the greatest interest. We meet these candidates for initial face-to-face interviews to explore the candidate’s education, professional experience, professional and personal strengths and weaknesses, and overall fit with our client organization as aligned with the position description. We introduce these candidates to our client by means of a detailed written narrative profile that captures five key areas of knowledge our client needs in order to begin evaluating prospective personnel:

• An account of the candidate’s current responsibilities
• A summary of professional and personal background and experience
• An analysis and appraisal of strengths and weaknesses, measured against the particular requirements of the position
• An explanation of the basis of the candidate’s interest in the role
• An assessment of factors that will influence the recruitment process

The candidate profile is the third deliverable in the search candidate profile is the third deliverable in the search process.

The End: Candidate Selection and Transition

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