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We want to help you create better people processes – whether you are a HR professional, hiring manager, candidate, or client. We have put together comprehensive guides and tools to help you establish best practice in your business.
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Matering Competency-Based Interviews
This guide will help you prepare for these interviews, ensuring your responses are detailed and insightful, thereby enhancing your chances of securing the role.
Leadership Development Programme Evaluation Form
This Leadership Development Programme (LDP) Evaluation Form is a tool used to gather feedback on the effectiveness of a leadership training programme. It helps assess if the programme achieved its goals and identify areas for improvement.
Skills Learning Journal
This professional development tool will help you to track your progress, insights, challenges, and reflections in a structured way as you engage in various learning activities.
Coaching Self-Assessment Tool
This professional development tool help you recognise your coaching strengths and weaknesses, and will keep you support you to refine your coaching skills.
Succession Planning Template
This template is designed to support business leaders as they identify and develop the next generation of talent, helping to minimise disruption and foster organisational continuity.
Professional Development Check-in Guide
This guide serves as a roadmap for employees and their managers to navigate personal development discussions and establish clear, actionable objectives.
Focus Group Guide
This guide covers how to define objectives, recruit participants, and develop discussion guides. It provides best practice tips for facilitation, note-taking, analysis, and ethical considerations.
Onboarding Checklist
This onboarding checklist has been designed to support you in creating a well-structured and supportive onboarding process for your new team members.
Bespoke Competency Framework Guide
A guide for hiring managers on how to create and use bespoke competency frameworks within their recruitment process.
Interview Evaluation Form Guide
A how to guide on creating and implementing Interview Evaluation Forms into your business to improve your hiring process.
Stay Interview Template
A guide for HR Professionals and People Managers, including information on best practices, how to analyse data, and a question template.
Non-Executive Director Guide
In this guide we will walk you through the steps of preparing a compelling NED application, including what to research, tips for competency questions, writing your cover letter and creating an effective CV.
Executive Candidate Guide
In this guide, we cover finding clarity around your desired employment, optimising your LinkedIn profile, CV & Covering Letter, Networking & Creating Visibility, Searching for Opportunities, Interview Preparation and Organisation (Keep Track of Actions).
7 Best Kept Secrets to Attract, Assess & Retain top talent for long-term success.
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Testimonials
Over the last three years, the company has steadily grown. Our priority was to develop team and individual skills to enable a flexible and agile team. JMG had been working on a project to capture the current and future skills, and due to the project's complexity, we recognised that we needed external experience and support.
JMG has had a long-standing relationship with Corvus People from a recruitment perspective. We value their ethics and approach to these activities and decided to explore the HR for Growth side of the business. I met with Chris, and he really took the time to understand what we needed and put forward solutions that allowed JMG to determine which direction was right for us.
Chris asks challenging questions and facilitates open discussions, enabling our team to reflect and be open to new ideas - bringing positive changes to the business and allowing our team members to have more structured development plans.
We look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with Corvus People and the quality service they deliver.
We identified a complex role within the business that required a demanding skill set. Finding the right person for this role presented us with a challenge - we had specific criteria that could be tricky to meet.
We had a relationship with Corvus People in the past and were keen to explore their more recent Corvus Assured offering, which is unique in the market and provides a different approach than traditional Executive Search services.
The role was difficult to fill, but our Consultant, did a fantastic job and was very responsive to our requests. The attention and customer service were great, and after some searching, they identified the right candidate who relocated internationally for the role. I would recommend this service to anyone who has hard-to-meet criteria or is looking for a different, more in-depth recruitment process.
In the current climate it is difficult to recruit quality candidates. Corvus have so far delivered us with two excellent senior members of staff who have elevated the business to another level, and we have third member starting shortly arranged through Corvus.
When Michael initially made contact with me it was evident that Corvus recruited people differently to most other companies. They attempt to place people who they recognise exactly suit the role, where others would be guilty of just throwing CV’s at you. I have only every received quality candidates through Corvus.
The quality of the services has help me to grow my business, and Michael, Ian and Helen have been very supportive and friendly throughout the process.
We have been facing ongoing challenges within the recruitment process, which has been the case for the past 18 months. Unfortunately, this has not been specific to one type of role or region. Attracting well-matched candidates and avoiding 'time-wasters' has been difficult. It has meant that, on a few occasions, we have had to restart the process from the beginning, taking a lot of resources from our team.
I had an existing relationship with Helen from my previous company, and when she reached out I had no hesitation in trusting her with the vacancy. The candidate who was placed is a great fit for the business and is coming with the right amount of relevant experience that we were looking for. Helen listened to what we wanted and found us the perfect fit! I would have no hesitation in choosing Corvus People for our next vacancy.
My client required a Sales Executive but after posting the role through their own channels, they became overwhelmed by applications that didn’t fit the brief. We identified the need for a more personalised service with a well-filtered candidate list that best suited our requirements.
I knew Michael through business networking and liked how he and his team do business - they offer a personalised, professional, and high-quality service. Some other agencies send over several CVs without necessarily matching them with the job specification or client requirements, which is not the case with Corvus People. My client has benefitted from reduced time on recruitment, and I can recommend an efficient recruitment solution to my clients. I would recommend this service to anyone who wants to take the hassle out of recruitment.
Our business is continuing to grow, and we needed help attracting the best surveyors and project managers to join our team. We have an amazing staff retention rate and want to ensure we were hiring people who would love working with us. We needed assistance with shortlisting and used Corvus People’s behavioural bench-marking tool to help us target more relevant candidates - it helped us understand which potential team members were the best fit for us from a cultural perspective.
Corvus understood that we weren't just trying to put bums on seats and wanted to hire employees who would grow alongside us. We talked a lot with Corvus about our company’s ethos and felt they were able to convey this to potential hires effectively. We love that Corvus took the time to get to know us and our business.
We have successfully placed several employees with the help of Corvus People, and we continue to work with them.
They are enthusiastic, proactive, and caring, and it is a pleasure to partner with their team.
Corvus People were recommended to me by a trusted friend and business advisor to recruit for a high-level role within the business. The recruitment of this role needed to be carefully administered and Corvus People were the team to ensure that. From the offset, everything was friendly, professional, and programmed. The level of service from the beginning right through to aftercare has been exceptional.
As a face-paced, proactive, but also very reactive business, the level of support and service that Corvus People offer is second to none. They were exactly what we needed to progress with the hire while we could focus on the day-to-day and give our input when required.
Corvus People will be looking after all our recruitment needs moving forward, and we look forward to working with them again.
Having worked with Michael and Michelle from Corvus I found them extremely professional, They worked very closely with us to not only understand more about the role we were looking to fill but also the nature of our business and people. I can highly recommend the whole Corvus experience.
I have used Michael’s services for business recruitment and personal career change. Michael is highly professional, intuitive and knowledgeable across several business sectors to assist with finding the right candidates for the right roles. Highly recommended!
Working with Michelle Kearns at Corvus has been a pleasure, there was regular contact, honest and transparent conversations about what I was looking for and what the company was able to offer. If I requested more information about any particular points Michelle provided robust and concise feedback with all the detail needed and would often check-in to see if there was any further support I required. I was in the process of moving country and Michelle also understood the pressures this involved and would give me time to think about any offers made and also helped accommodate support within that offer for the relocation.
Michelle was very professional in how she handled my case and would highly recommend her to anyone looking to make the next move in their career. She has demonstrated a high standard of work and negotiation to get me the package that best suited my circumstances and I am very grateful for all her hard work.
Excellent to deal with and very helpful. Kept constantly in contact to keep me up to date with how things were going and was very helpful both prior to and after getting my offer!
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