Consulting Services
Recruitment
- Permanent Placements
- Contract Placements
- Staff Augmentation
- Recruitment as a Service
- Project Recruitment
- Freelance Recruitment
At Career Direction, recruitment is not just a “search and place” function. While all industry best practice guidelines around privacy, technical skills check, referee checks and any other tests required is stringently adhered to, I also ensure your career heads in the right direction or that your business hires the optimal candidate to help achieve your vision.
I apply the principles of behavioural interviewing which included the following components:
- Can Do (the job) – Designed to evaluate candidate technical abilities, skills and aptitudes
- Will Do (the job) – Evaluating a candidate’s work attitude and motivation
- Will Fit (with your business and culture) – Evaluating work preferences, values and expectations
My approach to recruitment is not just about finding the right skills match but also the right behaviour and cultural fit between an employer and a candidate.
My approach is to find the right professional candidate for a role who brings a balance of both technical skill as well as cultural fit for a business. This includes going as granular as assessing the culture and attitudes of hiring managers and in-house teams and matching this to the candidate’s temperament. I also assess the types of environment a candidate wants to work in and what factors they consider as setting them “up for success”. It is attention to the little details that has seen me achieve success globally and in multiple sectors.
At Career Direction, I understand that high performing professionals require their own, unique set of factors in a workplace to thrive. Similarly, the personality of a business demands only certain types of professionals apply for roles. What works for one may not work for another and that is key to ensuring my clients and candidates are matched to environments that set them up for success. As I mentioned – your needs will be directly addressed by me.
Recruitment can not only be costly financially, but also from a time and productivity perspective. As a result, I take time to understand what a professional is looking for their next role to match them to the right employer. Similarly, I will only take on board clients whom I can service and am confident of delivering the right candidates to. In my experience, I understand that recruitment itself is not sufficient for workplace success – it is also retention. Retention helps both a professional and their employer succeed and at all times I strive to provide the right advice to help employers retain their talent. Why am I so passionate about this? Because when candidates and client succeed, so do I.
My recruitment methodology is also unique to a business’s requirements. Some prefer multiple layers of complexity (naturally, for their complex operations) while others are looking for lean, agile solutions. Career Direction can cater to all types of businesses and their internal processes and preferences.
Outplacement
- Resume Writing
- Interview Preparation
- Developing Networks
- Job Searches
- One-on-One Consulting
- Redundancy Support
- Individual Outplacement
- Executive Outplacement
- Group Outplacement
Outplacement is a delicate process and one that impacts both a person’s career as well as their mental health and wellbeing.
Outplacement is the process an employer applies to assist employees to transition into other roles. This usually occurs when a person is made redundant.
Why undertake outplacement at all?
Because, as a business that prides itself on human dignity and the principles of kindness, helping those who are struggling (within reason) is a hallmark of a good civil society and a responsible employer.
Like many additional services that a responsible business offers (such as Employee Assistance Programs), providing outplacement services enhances your business’s good standing in the community and is a practical demonstration of your company values of ethics, responsibility, accountability and social conscience. If nothing else, this process also makes good commercial sense as employees leaving a business (either voluntarily or involuntarily) is a costly disruption to employers and existing employees.
A key benefit of outplacement is that the employee you are supporting will always remember that your business tried to help them during a stressful and particularly challenging time in their lives. We all know of professionals who have left businesses and come back to it after a period of time working elsewhere. This can be beneficial to your business depending on what phase your business is in and its changing requirements. Therefore, maintaining a good relationship with former employees can pay off in the long term if you decide to rehire them.
Outplacement Features
Should your business choose to use Career Direction’s outplacement services, the services you can choose include:
- Coaching your managers on having the difficult conversation of make an employee redundant (or terminated).
- Assist your internal HR in drafting communications to your teams to reduce workplace disruption that normally results from any employee being terminated or made redundant.
- Work with your senior management team to develop a strategy if you have to convey the challenging news of redundancies or termination within your business.
- Work with line managers and provide them with support to manage the gaps left behind by former employees.
Support
If your company engages the outplacement services of Career Direction, I will assist your employees who are going through redundancy in their search for a new job. During this process, Career Direction will assist these employees with:
- Job Search
- Resume Writing
- Interviewing Skills
- Employment Coaching
Career Coaching
- Career Coaching
- Interview Coaching
- Career Consulting
- Career Guidance
- Career Planning
Career Coaching Features
What is career coaching? At Career Direction, career coaching is about:
- Supporting professionals with the right advice and information to help them make decisions about their next career move.
- Ensuring professionals can “see” the future and potential consequences of the actions they take in their current roles at work.
- Optimising a person’s professional potential, noting that each professional is a unique and talented person in their own right. This means that a “one fits all” approach will never be applied to you at Career Direction.
- Understanding that developing technical professional skills is crucial however, equally critical is developing soft skills in communications, conflict resolution and compassion. Especially in a post-COVID-19 world, these human interaction skills will become more important than ever in supporting professionals in taking their careers to the next level.