Professional Search & Selection Consultancy

Client Services
Oliver James Associates is a unique recruitment organisation that can offer its clients an unparalleled service within its field of expertise. Our prime focus is on ensuring that we are fully committed to sourcing the most appropriate talent for your organisation by capitalising on our in-depth knowledge and experience of the insurance industry.

Contingency
As a market leading specialist within our chosen markets, Oliver James Associates has built an enviable reputation for identifying key talent with specific financial services sector experience. Our recruitment strategy creates advantages for both our clients and candidates, minimising the time and effort spent identifying the ideal match. Our experienced team is adept at understanding client requirements due to our comprehensive knowledge of the market. We are able to utilise our vast network and resources to locate the ideal candidate. We respond strategically and responsively to customer assignments through a combination of proven search methods. Our unparalleled internal database system has been tailored specifically to the financial services sector along with the technical disciplines we cover. This is continually mined and updated to ensure we have rapid access to elite talent. Our internal salary benchmarking tools and industry experience enable us to provide both customer and candidate guidance on compensation and benefits packages, ensuring optimum probability of search success.

Advertised Selection
Advertising is often effective when the assignment covers a large geographical area, an extensive range of skill sets, high volume recruitment and company branding activities. Oliver James Associates are able to research and provide advice on the most appropriate advertising media.
We then book, write and design the advert in liaison with the client. Our consultants respond to all applications in a professional manner, conduct screening interviews and present a short-list of candidates to the client.

Where deemed necessary a full search process can be conducted in conjunction with the advertising campaign. This service is called advertised search and is quite simply the most powerful way to send your recruitment message to the market.

Retained Search
This methodology is particularly applicable when aiming to identify senior management who are often by nature passive job seekers. These individuals require courting in a more targeted and discreet manner for specific roles. Through our upfront strategic planning consultation we work with our clients to define a target portfolio of competitive and relevant companies where the ideal person may currently work. Our research methodology and industry reputation combined with professional solicitation techniques help to overcome the barriers to identifying and approaching the passive job seeker.

We keep clients continuously informed with regular updates and our progress tracking reports offer complete visibility during the search process. We are typically able to deliver a short list of qualified candidates for each assignment in three to six weeks from commencement of the search, which compares favourably with the industry average of ten weeks due to our already strong contact network within the insurance market.
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