We successfully delivered two Master Black Belts for this major Bank in London and in Dublin. Impressed by the speed with which we were able to complete these searches, the bank outlined a hiring problem they had and challenged us to solve it.

The Bank had been struggling for the past 6 months to hire a Master Black Belt for their Asian business, based in Hong Kong. The bank had engaged with local suppliers and interviewed over 30 candidates, none of whom had proved suitable. This was proving costly on two levels. Firstly the hiring manager was wasting his valuable time meeting inappropriate candidates. Secondly a large pipeline of project opportunities was accumulating with no resource in theatre to oversee their delivery.

We advised the Bank to not only focus on the local Hong Kong market, which they had already saturated, but to instead target expatriates working in the US and Europe who had a personal desire to relocate back to Hong Kong. We were certain that the Banks strong Global brand and well established local presence in Hong Kong would be very attractive to potential targets in these regions and were confident that this would give them immediate access to a much larger pool of talent, which it did.

The Bank agreed and instructed us to proceed rapidly. We were able to quickly access the international market by carefully targeting members of our extensive expatriate network who we knew would be receptive to this type of opportunity. After only 1 week we were able to introduce the Bank to several suitable candidates based in both Europe and the US.

After a series of video interviews we reduced the shortlist to 1 very strong candidate, based in Switzerland, who we flew to Hong Kong to meet with the senior management team. The search was completed (contracts signed) in less than 3 weeks, end to end. Our strong, international candidate network, allowed us to precisely and quickly access the best candidates in the wider marketplace, thus solving our clients hiring need.

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