2012 by Mark Kitchen who has 30 years experience in recruitment.
This has been by design, the business has been built on referrals.
We can only take a brief from the hiring manager (normally a board member), this drastically increases our success rate compared to other recruiters.
Yes, our largest team deployed is 19 people, however, we are not KPI’d on deploying teams, we react to our clients needs.
We have a proven track record of discreetly supporting our clients M&A strategies by originating deals, this can be a disposal or an acquisition.
We prefer to speak in detail about the role, the role objectives, the team culture, the business appetite for change, historic challenges etc. This detail creates our candidate selection criteria.
Experience matters as well as a solid network of trusted candidates.
Our job is to get our clients the very best people who can deliver on objectives, nothing else matters.
Experienced interim managers work to a day rate range, we agree a day rate with you before you interview a candidate so pricing is transparent.
This list is in priority order for most experienced interim managers;
1. Interesting work
2. Location
3. Day rate
4. Company culture
Our business has been built on referrals, we have found that this gives us the best candidates for our clients.
We actively prioritise candidates that have worked for us before or ones that we have known for a long time.
We only work with senior candidates who want us to be there when they need us, they don’t expect to be put on a call cycle. We are always available when they need us.
We deliver assignments that often start with fixing a problem. We don’t think that should be public knowledge.
Yes, all of the case studies on our website can be referenced by the client. We would be happy to set you up with a call or video call.
No, although we sometimes deliver the same outcomes as a management consultancy when the work is hands on.
We don’t believe that it adds value. We do have a saying that we live by though “It’s all about them” you will see that in everything that we do; Clients, Candidates and Suppliers alike.
IXPA is a professional network of mostly owner managed business across the world. Together we deliver the best local interim managers in 29 countries. The partners meet every year face to face, we trust each other.
Having a job page would create a lot of applicants, the work needed to manage them professionally would reduce the time we have for our existing candidates – we prioritise our existing candidates who we know and trust.
Yes, we have done so for over 13 years. We call it part-time.
The clients that we work with value their time. They also know that when a hire matters they need quality outcomes.
No, the hiring cost is the same. When clients factor in their management costs the price is cheaper than contingent.
Retain the ISP and work in partnership to make the role brief attractive to the right candidates.