Martin Tucker's Expert Guide To Recruitment
Welcome to our new series of three-minute videos on senior recruitment. Covering a range of key topics, each video provides expert guidance and practical advice for senior leaders, elected members and candidates navigating the recruitment process.
Drawing on decades of executive search experience, our Founder and Managing Partner, Martin Tucker, has created these short, accessible insights to help organisations make better appointments and support candidates through their leadership journey.
Part 1: An overview of senior recruitment
No two processes are the same, and organisations are often judged based on the quality of their leadership. Martin shares some key underlying principles that your recruitment campaign should build upon.
Part 2: Recruiting in a democratic context
Recruiting in a democratic context is fundamentally different to other sectors. Martin explores some of the unique characteristics of recruiting within a local authority context.
Part 3: Planning for change
There are a few key success factors that underpin every successful senior appointment. Martin covers some of the most important design principles for executive recruitment.
Part 4: The preparation begins
When someone moves on, there is a valuable opportunity for an organisation to pause and reflect. Martin discusses what fundamental questions you should consider at this very important moment to ensure you know what the correct replacement looks like.
Part 5: Talent is found in many different (and often, unexpected) places
When facing new challenges in a fast-moving world, inclusive leadership is not a luxury, but a necessity. How can you ensure that your approach is designed to create a level playing field for candidates of all backgrounds and experiences?
Part 6: Make yourself unmissable
Recruitment is a two-way process between organisations and candidates. Martin shares some thoughts on how your organisation can sell itself effectively - and how to craft the messaging you want to land with candidates.
Part 7: Integrating system perspectives
Today's civic leaders exist in a complex, interdependent system, and must collaborate and build strong working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders. Martin explores how you can involve some of those important stakeholders in your recruitment process.
Part 8: Preparing for a great start
Great - you've got a fantastic candidate and everyone's excited to get started. But how do you ensure that the onboarding is successful, positive and beneficial for all involved? Martin explores this topic in our last short video.
We hope you have found these videos interesting and informative, and thank you for watching them. If you would like to discuss any of these topics in more detail with Martin, or if your organisation has a current or upcoming recruitment campaign with which you would like some guidance - please get in touch at mtucker@faerfield.co.uk, or call 0121 312 3755.
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