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FINDING YOU THE PERFECT FIT

Faster and more cost effectively
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Executive Search

Our Executive Search process combines management alignment, behavioural insights & candidate profiling, ensuring you have tangible data to enable you to make more informed hiring decisions. 

 

Your dedicated consultant, through their extensive industry sector expertise, will offer valuable guidance on identifying, attracting, and appointing the best individuals to meet your needs, rather than solely providing the best available at that point in time.

 

As your recruitment partner, your specialist consultant will project manage the recruitment process, creating a bespoke approach designed with you, specifically for your project. We have a unique methodology to ensure the best possible hire, understanding how they will perform in the role, and how they will integrate within company culture.

 

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HOW WE CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS

12-month guarantee

Because our search and selection process places candidates on more than just their CVs, retention is easily achieved. In fact, 97% of our placed candidates are still in role after 12 months.

Behavioural testing

We do this by utilising industry-leading job profiling and behavioural assessments to find you the ‘perfect candidate’. Our method is to first align your team on who is the best skills and cultural fit, then to carry this into our search, creating candidate profiles that closely match your requirements.

Portal access

To create an easy and smooth search, we provide access to collaboration technology to anyone involved in the hiring process. Here, you can instantly access candidate videos, behavioural profiles, key competency questions and answers, and more.

WHY OUR CLIENTS CHOOSE TO PARTNER WITH US

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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK WITH CORVUS?

We appreciate that our executive search recruitment process may not be for everyone. Our approach requires you to invest time to collaborate with us. By building a strong partnership with you, we can ensure we find candidates who will fit culturally and be able to deliver.

We will provide honest and open advice throughout the process and will advise at any stage if we feel that the role is not best suited to our methodology, or if your requirements will present challenges in the search.

We take a consultative approach, working in partnership with your senior team to understand how your talent acquisition fits into the bigger picture and find you the exceptional leaders who are right for both your existing challenges and your future opportunities.

Initial Discussions

Initial discussions to learn more about your business and determine the best approach for your critical hire.

Contract + Onbording

Contract initiation and onboarding where we will deep dive into the role, organisation, culture, and skills expectations within the hiring team.

Assessments + Insights

Hiring team complete assessments to provide us with behavioural insights and to allow us to work alongside your team to align their views.

Recruitment Packs

Finalise promotional materials including job descriptions, job advertisements, and candidate briefing packs.

Advertising + Headhunting

Begin advertising and headhunting to assess active and passive candidates in the market using various databases and direct reach outs.

The Long List

Long list provided for review allowing us to further understand the skills and experience required

The Short List

Short list and behavioural profiling to look deeper at the behavioural and cultural fit of the candidates.

Assessment

Portal ready for access and shortlisted candidates will be uploaded to with key assessment details for the hiring team.

Selection for Interview

Hiring team review profiles and begin selection for interview stages.

Interview + Selection

Interviews and selection of candidates.

Case Study 1

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Head of IT for Douglas & Grahame

Role: Head of IT

Client: Douglas & Grahame

Background:

After the existing IT Manager started planning for their retirement, our client began searching for a replacement. Before coming to Corvus, three attempts had been made by other sources to find a suitable candidate, wasting a lot of management time.

 

The HR and IT Manager, who were due to be promoted to Director level, were the leads on the hire. When we completed our assessments with the up-and-coming Directors, it became clear that they were looking for very different characteristics.

 

We worked alongside the client and facilitated discussions around the results to create a deeper understanding of each perspective withing the hiring team. Once we had come to an agreement on who they were looking for, we commenced our search and successfully placed their Head of IT. After struggling to find a candidate for this role, the team ended up with multiple suitable candidates to choose from.

Case Study 2

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A Role Overseas for Ciena

Role: Director of Distribution Operations (US role)

Client: Ciena

Background:

Our client was recruiting for a role based in Texas, their central hub in North America. Their internal recruitment team had been searching for a candidate for 12 months before engaging with us. During their search, they had got to offer and acceptance stage with a candidate from a direct competitor, but they pulled out at the last minute. After more unfruitful internal searching, the client turned to us.

 

During the process, the initial short-list was reduced from 5 to 2 candidates through a 4-stage interview process. As there was a lot of candidate information, and because different people in different parts of the US were involved in the interview processes, the portal element proved very useful for the client as it streamlined the process for everyone involved. The video aspect of the portal was also really useful as it was during the 1st lockdown period, where face-to-face interviews were not happening. This gave the team invaluable insight into the candidates before meeting them.

 

Once we had reached the final stage, the original candidate who was at offer stage with the client reached out directly to express interest in the role once again. To ensure they were the correct fit for the role, we put them through our assessment process. Their behavioural profile was not a match, and while he still went for a final stage interview, a Corvus candidate, originally from Brazil, was successfully placed and started the following month.

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Get in touch with Michael to find out more

Michael Hewitt, Director

T: +44 (0)79 5093 5686 | E: michael.hewitt@corvuspeople.com

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WHY CORVUS?

Committed to Quality over Quantity

Exclusive Partnership

Experts in complex assignments

Improved outcomes

360 People Solutions

Values driven

Saving you time and money

Data-driven solutions

Scientific methodology

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