Your people are your biggest asset and also often your largest cost, so recruiting the right people into the right roles is important from a number of viewpoints.

We offer support to our clients with recruitment campaigns, developing job descriptions, adverts and person specifications, application forms and applicant information packs.

We can even take the legwork out of the initial applications for you, handling the shortlisting process and presenting you with the candidates that most closely match the profile of the person you are looking for.

We are experienced with the full range of selection methods for finding the right person for the job: from questioning techniques and traditional interviews through test exercises and personal profiling to a full assessment centre approach. Our advice and guidance on equal opportunities will enable you to deliver a fair selection process for your candidates, minimising the risk of claims and upholding the good name of your company.

And once you have that right person in place, effective induction is crucial to helping them settle in and making sure they stay and become an effective and motivated member of the team.

An effective induction plan will be a major contributory factor in retaining newly-appointed staff and will take place over a period of several weeks. It will be an ongoing process to ensure that the new recruit integrates well into the organisation and rapidly becomes confident in carrying out the full scope of their duties.

Our induction programmes are designed to introduce the workplace and the role to the new employee in a planned and systematic way, avoiding information overload with bite-sized chunks that are easily absorbed.

Recruitment is a costly and time-consuming business – we believe it makes sense to seek expert advice.

“There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that ‘better’ HR practice in SMEs is also associated with enhanced performance”

CIPD people Skills Project 2017