How do YOU decide who to interview for a senior role?

Senior level appointments are a crucial part of a company’s future success. As well as being confident potential colleagues have the skills to carry out the role, it’s also imperative to understand how they would fit within your organisation and interact with the existing team.

 

Successful companies are focusing their executive search on understanding how a candidate would fit into their company 1, 2, 5 and even 10 years down the line. Why? Because one of the key parts to being a great leader (as well as leading) is working well with the team in place, recruiting new talent and helping drive the business forward.

 

The difficulty is, this sort of deeper understanding usually comes when the process is in full flow, you’ve already started to interview applicants or even after they’ve started within the role. You’ve usually had to make the decision who to see based on a CV sent either directly from an applicant, an enhanced version from an Executive Search agency (that surprisingly fits everything you’ve said you’re looking for) or from a LinkedIn profile.

 

We recognise this and it’s what the foundations of our business are based upon; matching people with people as well as CVs with Job Descriptions. We call this Fitability.

 

Our business provides state of the art interviewing technology, bespoke profiling of an applicant’s personality and leadership strengths, in-depth reference checking and skills matching. We have partnered with interview technology specialists, Shine, to enable candidates to answer interview questions via their phone, tablet or laptop in real-time. Shine then generates a video clip of the candidate for you to view at your leisure.

 

Our candidates also answer a bespoke suite of questions created to provide a detailed analysis of their leadership and personality traits.

 

We create a personalised overview of their previous experience and employment history so you know the focus is on YOU and not a speculative approach.

 

For all candidates who are successful in securing an interview with our clients, we meet face-to-face as a final sense check on their suitability and Fitability.

 

Now this could all sound a bit strange to you, however when it costs nothing to get in touch and speak with us, why don’t you see if we could help you with your next executive search.

 

Robert Kenward is the Director and Founder of YOU search & select, a boutique agency specialising in the placement of director level, executive and senior management candidates within Marketing, HR and Business Development.