They need new and exciting opportunities presented and sold to them professionally and discreetly, it is our role as your Executive Search and Human Capital partner to pro-actively seek out these candidates.

We sell your organisation to the targeted performer using subtle psychology, finely tuned intuition and excellent timing. Knowledge, discretion and specific negotiating skills acquired over many years of combined consultancy enable our consultants at Gabriel & James to win over apparently unobtainable personnel.

People are more than just saleable goods, so we deliberately avoid acting as shopkeepers. Just as we get to know our candidates, we need to know your organisation, understand its visions, goals and culture.

At the assignment briefing stage we discuss in depth your requirements in terms of the position’s key responsibilities and the candidate specifications and the merits of various assessment techniques for aptitude testing.

If required, we can build into the selection process psychometric or bio-graphical testing (including interviews performed by a psychologist), custom designed assessment centres (including “in tray” exercises), and tests of ability in specific areas, e.g. numerical or verbal responding or computer literacy.

Once briefed we submit an accurate and comprehensive job and candidate specification for approval along with our recommendation as to how best to target and acquire the right calibre of individual required.

We are able to deploy any combination of on and off-line advertising media and use sophisticated executive search techniques to identify talent across a wide range of functions.

Where “Search” is used we perform a thorough market mapping exercise to identify companies and sectors likely to produce those best qualified for the role. This is then submitted for client approval prior to any approaches.

Once approved, we begin discreet targeting, keeping our clients informed of our progress by regular reports.

As we reach the conclusion of an assignment our consultants are on hand to assist in structuring the offer and negotiating with the candidate the remuneration package on behalf of a client.

Having developed knowledge of the candidate’s motivations and concerns we are often best positioned to remove unwarranted doubts, or to use our overview of the market place as a whole to compare the benefits of a client organisation with other employers.

One of the greatest challenges in the current market is ensuring that the headhunted candidate is convinced to make a move and can resist the counter-offer process from his or her current employer. We stay close to both the candidate and our client to ensure that the critical stage of offer, acceptance, and resignation proceed smoothly.