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Our star candidates, and the ones we successfully place, have all been keen to meet and accommodating enough to ensure a face to face meeting happens. We may have met candidates three or four times in some cases over several months before we’ve placed them into their ideal role.
With demand for high flyers returning to more healthy levels, we are certainly seeing more and more of our candidates facing a range of interview requests. With busy work and often heavy travel schedules to boot, finding the time to attend, and more importantly to adequately prepare for challenging interviews, is no easy task. Throw into the mix a variety of interview formats, from case studies and presentations to competency based questions and assessment centres, and it can all very quickly become daunting and confusing.
We try very hard here at FreshMinds Talent to help candidates think laterally about how their core skills can be applied to both different types of roles, and across a range of sectors. But what drives this desire to look at pastures new, and what does it say about some of the different career paths for the best and brightest?
We try very hard here at FreshMinds Talent to help candidates think laterally about how their core skills can be applied to both different types of roles, and across a range of sectors. But what drives this desire to look at pastures new, and what does it say about some of the different career paths for the best and brightest?
Yesterday evening we spent a very enjoyable time at a top Business School Career Fair. Not only were we the only recruiter invited to attend, but the number of candidates who approached us was a testimony to the reputation the firm has build over the years in placing exceptional candidates in highly coveted positions across the industry and the consultancy world.
I met with a fantastic candidate today, who was looking to make their first job change having spent a number of years at a well respected strategy consultancy. As the conversation went on, we went on to discussing their experiences of the search so far. I was sadly unsurprised to hear that their experiences had been mixed. However, there are some fantastic and knowledgable recruiters out there so I thought I would add my tips on how to use a recruiter.
Since joining FreshMinds I have been greatly impressed with the superior customer service that the team offers to both candidates and clients and with the passion and enthusiasm with which briefs are taken on board and fulfilled.
A question I regularly get asked by candidates is “what can I expect at interview and how can I best prepare?” Let’s face it, every process is different and every client will approach interviews slightly differently, so there is never going to be a ‘one size fits all’ answer to this question. However, the one thing that does apply to all interviews is that rigorous preparation is vital, at every stage in the process.
Case study based interviews are near certainties when interviewing with management and strategy consultancies but they are also becoming more and more prevalent for non consulting roles.
We’re speaking to many consultants who are interviewing widely with competing firms, both niche and multi disciplinary, and having even more conversations with those looking to leave the industry behind and move into corporate roles. A recent survey we comissioned for our clients suggests that industry in fact represents the most significant competition for consultancy firms.
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