36 New Road
Little Kingshill
Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire
Little Kingshill
Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire
In simple terms Broxton Betts Ltd is a recruitment company which helps its clients to successfully manage their recruitment challenges. We see an employment opportunity as a product to be taken to market using the same marketing principles which are generally employed in product marketing in any other industry. Our role is to understand and professionally describe this product, then take it to a defined target pool of potential candidates and attract a suitable short list for each position using the most appropriate methods.
In carrying out this process it is essential that we develop an intimate understanding of our clients. We professionally represent their businesses in the employment market place and we are conscious that potential candidate views of our clients will be influenced by the competence we exhibit when dealing with them. A positive image of the position, company and industry is essential. In this respect Broxton Betts Ltd acts as a trusted ambassador, professionally representing its clients in all circumstances. This is particularly important when an enterprise is expanding into new territories where the brand or company name may not be well known. Our job briefing documents are meticulous and often take the form of a mini-prospectus for a client company. We are target-driven and possess an excellent track record in meeting deadlines.
Recruitment is always tied into wider corporate agendas and is not an isolated activity. Whether recruitment activity is driven by Financial, Sales, Marketing, Business Development or Productivity agendas, recruitment stakeholders in client companies can sometimes have different views about the reasons for a new appointment and the detailed business need. We have proved to be effective at harmonizing sometimes conflicting views within client businesses to achieve a common understanding of the recruitment task in hand. This helps ensure that a consistent message is delivered to candidates, which is often not easily achieved in times of change.
Once in progress, a recruitment assignment always takes on a unique life of its own. Whilst recruitment methods fall under a number of distinct “service” headings, the execution of an assignment usually involves a variable weighted mix of methods and inputs depending upon the nature of the assignment.
This is the core service for any headhunting business. We carry out a rigorous research programme to determine the names of companies operating in the relevant fields which may yield the desired pool of target candidates. We have excellent research and networking capabilities which fuel this activity.
By confidential and discreet means we will identify and contact suitably qualified individuals whose experiences and abilities best meet the candidate specification. After generating interest in the position, we will interview candidates and draw up a short list for presentation to the client.
The process of Executive Search assumes that suitably qualified potential candidates are not actively seeking to move job and must be approached and prompted to consider a new employment opportunity. This is particularly relevant when recruiting, for example, a Research and Development Director in a specialist field. Often the qualified pool of potential candidates is small, long serving and not change-oriented. In this respect a high quality approach from the recruitment consultant is vital as is in-depth research on the individual before the approach is made.
Sometimes companies need employees whose skills are not related to a particular market, industry or product. An example would be a need for a Finance Director / Manager with experience of working with private equity fuelled flotation opportunities. A successful track record in this area could have been achieved in many different industries and sectors.
Through using as many avenues as possible, we ensure that potential candidates are aware of the opportunity. We have developed relationships with all the key recruitment advertising media and have access to all the main professional networks and on-line facilities.
Over the years we have developed a wide range of contacts, networks and potential candidate pools. We have access to all the main on-line candidate search engines and professional associations.
Whilst this database is often the starting point for most recruitment assignments, we are often able to use our contacts to help businesses with more unusual short term needs, such as the identification of people prepared to work on short-term, fixed, consultancy or interim contracts.
In the past we have recruited management teams for companies trading in rapid growth sectors such as IT and telecoms. Upon occasion we have been asked to recruit large teams of people reporting into these functional heads. This has included the recruitment of entire employee complements for call centres, residential sales forces, construction teams and major leisure facility operations.
The need to ensure good quality teams are hired en masse to demanding time schedules, requires recruitment project management skills which are different to those employed in carrying out a senior level headhunt. Campaign management involving candidate attraction and selection through various methods including face to face interviews and assessment centres is a skill which we have perfected to a fine art.
Change can sometimes lead to a parting of ways between a company and some of its hitherto valued employees. This can be a stressful time for the employees concerned as they face the challenge of securing new opportunities with different businesses.
We can help people through this difficult time period by assisting with the mechanics of job-finding such as CV preparation, identification of opportunities, making approaches to potential new employers etc. We seek to empower people with confidence by working with them as a source of advice and research encouraging them to take control of the job search process.
Recruitment is part of the wider Human Resources Management challenge faced by businesses and we have expanded our recruitment activity into related HR subject areas in order to offer a one-stop-shop recruitment service.
From time to time our clients may experience HR Management needs which cannot be satisfied by their own in-house teams. We are able to offer some support in these circumstances by decoupling our own HR services from our core recruitment offer and making them available on a consultancy basis for our clients if required.
These services include:
We have also helped clients set up recruitment processes of their own to manage the recruitment of staff. This involves access to our own resources and capabilities such as the use of the main on-line mediums for CV search and vacancy advertising. This yields considerable savings for clients compared to the costs which would usually be involved in setting up such a function from scratch or using high street recruitment agencies.