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Due to our continued company growth, we need to add another professional to our team – someone who shares our mission to bring respect and ethics into every hiring process. 

As a retained search recruitment company we work on behalf of multi-national companies, who pay for our global knowledge and expertise in “hunting” for people to work for them around the world.  We need a new team member to help us with this hunting – to source, assess, interview and evaluate senior level job seekers, with a view to matching them to the precise requirements of these international companies.

This role will be skewed to “front of house” consulting and this person will be: 

• Using a variety of research methods to source specific senior level profiles from around the world and engage them in career conversations

• Managing initial screening assessments to check minimum skill and experience level and sensitively decline where appropriate.

• Conducting technical interviews with high potential candidates and making recommendations to clients accompanied by full assessments as to suitability.

• Developing strong working partnerships with candidates and clients to understand needs, manage expectations and ensure complete clarity through the entire hiring process including discussions around package information and relocation logistics.

• Developing an in-depth understanding of the HR market to manage ongoing analysis and marketing updates to provide “value add” information to our networks. 

• Drawing upon extensive work and life experience to credibly provide career counselling support and interview technique coaching as required 

• Managing the hundreds of unsolicited applicants who contact us, in a manner that treats people fairly and respectfully

• Working with our broader team to ensure all compliance, regulations and project milestones are met, and all ongoing interview booking logistics and post interview feedback is shared 

You don't need previous experience of working within a search firm. However you will need an extensive, multi-year work history within private sector employers that has enabled you to finesse and successfully demonstrate these essential core competencies: 

• Advanced written and verbal English. We’re dealing with executives all around the globe so we need exceptional communication skills. Your spoken English needs to be fit for a board room and you must be able to accurately proof read multi-page documents

• Respect, empathy and adaptable interpersonal skills. We’re dealing with people of different nations, faiths, sexualities, genders, and career aspirations.  These people typically have 20 years plus career experience with multiple reasons for considering new employment. We need to understand and adjust our working styles to fit in with them.

• Resilience with “pick yourself up and dust yourself down” self drive. Even when you’ve spoken to hundreds of people, and think you’ve finally found the one perfect person in the world for any given role, the employer client can change the criteria on whom they’re really seeking. Or the candidates can change their minds about moving. Or business strategy change can make the role just disappear. We guarantee there will be many, many days when you’re tearing your hair out. If you cannot handle high levels of pressure on a sustained basis, then this isn’t the job for you. 

• Emotional intelligence. Read up on it. You cannot be successful in this job without it. 

• Time management. We’re talking about the extreme kind – imagine your day with multiple interviews to be conducted, 2 proposals to write, a series of unsolicited phone calls to be handled, multiple emails to be replied to, your fridge just broke down mid cycle and a friend has just lobbed on your doorstep needing support with a family crisis. If you’re not a master juggler or spinner of plates: this isn’t the job for you. 

• Technically literate. We provide all the equipment and software and licences that you’ll need to do the job. But we don’t have the luxury of an IT team. So when your printer jams up, it’ll be up to you to figure out the fix. When Microsoft wants to upgrade software it’ll be up to you to click the right buttons. And with so many internet searches, email communications, and constant skype online meetings, you absolutely need to be confident with a keyboard!

• Integrity and good manners. Reputation is everything in our industry. One foolish word, one missed call, one perceived disrespectful treatment of a candidate or employer client, one mis-truth; and you’re finished. So you need to be the kind of person who delivers what you promise. And have the organisation skills to make sure you follow up on everything, all of the time.

• Sensational instincts with a naturally consultative style. You need to be hard-wired with an innate sense of knowing when to push, to "drill down" on an answer, to know that something just doesn't add up. If your "gut feel" isn't a reliable barometer, this isn't the job for you. 

What are we offering? 

• Home office work arrangement with some flexibility for work hours (to fit in with the international time zones we’re working across daily) 

• Intensive and extensive training in all aspects of the retained search industry (we’re great getting newcomers up to speed, and credible in this profession) 

• A company culture that isn’t just paying lip service to quality, service, respect

• Highly varied and interesting work 

• Grown up work environment (where you are expected to contribute ideas that add to the ongoing growth of the company rather than being “just an employee”) 

• A market competitive salary (with pension and annual profit sharing bonus) 

• Planned travel (once travel is allowable again) for team events in London, Zurich, Beziers (you’ll need a current passport) 

• Fantastic people to work with (even if we say so ourselves !) Check out our leadership team. We have no time for company politics, and whilst we treat our work seriously, we still manage to have fun.

• A truly global candidate community and clients who are making and doing some pretty cool things (some of the biggest companies and brands in the world, and some exciting high growth SME’s) 

If this sounds like the kind of career role that just might be of interest to you, and that would build on your minimum 10 year corporate work history; please do make contact directly via solutions@cartermorris.com It would be useful for you to send through a current CV and covering letter highlighting your strengths to this role, and why you're seeking a career change at this time. 

No individual queries can be taken (apologies but our current workload for paying clients restricts our time right now). However every genuine applicant will receive a response within 48 working hours. 

UK citizens/work visa holders only will be considered for this hire, and our preference is for a professional already based within or able to readily travel to Kent in South East England.

Other languages will be highly regarded (although are not essential). 

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