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Client Benefits

At Tier One we adopt a pragmatic approach to servicing clients, via a common process. The resulting benefits to our clients may be categorised as follow:

• Introduction to the highest calibre of Business Strategists available within the international marketplace.

• Candidates who are a cultural fit to your organisation.

• A comprehensive candidate interviewing and screening process.

• Pre-interview arrangement of third party psychometric and aptitude tests if required by a client.

• In-depth verbal and written appraisals of candidates. This not only saves a client time spent data gathering, but also allows him / her to be better informed when deciding candidate suitability for interview.

• A consultative rather than sales-based service that is strategy specific.

• Experienced consultants who are former Management Consultants and have industry and company specific knowledge.

• A network of contacts and candidate database that are extensive. Our niche market service ensures a rapid response rate to a client request for staff.

• During and after hours, access to your Tier One consultant via mobile telephone on a 24/7/365 basis.

• A service that reflects our mission statement.

Typical Process

A typical Search and Selection engagement will involve the following key steps:

• Initially, we like to spend time with our client organisations in order to understand the intricacies of their approach to business, functional and industry practises, clients, culture and values. Understanding this fully is a pre-requisite to discussing the specifics of the position being recruited for. This approach then allows us to identify the most appropriate candidate/s available from our extensive network of contacts and database, prior to any advertising. Often the 'fast track' record of these individuals will be attained via an amalgamation of Strategic Consulting, Industry and/or Investment Banking (Corporate Finance / M&A) exposure.

• Following initial identification of the most suitable candidates comes our internal interview process. Individuals are screened to verify their calibre, track record and whether they would be a cultural fit for the organisation in question. We look to identify evidence of talented personalities with language skills, strong extra-curricular activities and achievements, prior to the client becoming involved in the process. Part of candidate assessment is via a Competency-Based Interviewing (CBI) screening approach. Whilst clients have their own screening methodologies, CBI provides additional insurance that the first rate candidates will fulfil the requirements of their job function. We always like to see candidates in person wherever possible and can arrange psychometric and aptitude tests where a client specifically requests it.

• We provide our clients with a verbal and written candidate appraisal. Irrespective of candidate seniority, we provide a comprehensive insight into their strong international academic backgrounds, including relevant Scholarships, Awards and Achievements. We detail all academic scores (e.g GMATs, GPAs, Z-Scores) notwithstanding when and where in the world they studied and under which educational system. Examples of typical post-undergraduate Business Schools that many of our candidates attend can be found at business schools.

• Only after we have undertaken this research will we contact our clients and forward on the relevant information. Following discussion and candidate preparation, a client's bespoke interviewing (and often Case Study based) examination will then commence.

• Finally, we provide all clients with a first-rate and ongoing client service.