The CRA service offering includes Talent Mapping, Candidate Qualification & Tracking, Executive Search and Market Mapping, which can be tailored according to your needs. CRA provides a flexible, quality focused, highly cost-effective search solution, across a variety of sectors at a global level. CRA can partner with your internal talent function, offering you the expertise and added value to deliver greater business benefit to your customers.
Talent Mapping
External talent mapping is the proactive identification of potential candidates within the market (I.e. - understanding where competitor talent resides & future talent can be found). This approach to sourcing will provide you with quality candidates mapped to your critical roles and future business requirements. Key benefits of external talent mapping include:
- Proactive sourcing of talent prior to vacancy
- Time saving & therefore highly cost effective as candidates are pre-qualified
- Objective & thorough due to full market coverage
- Benchmarking external potential candidates against internal talent
Candidate Qualification & Tracking
Candidate qualification involves directly engaging with individuals off the talent map to determine capability, cultural fit and genuine interest. CRA will provide a Long-List of qualified, interested candidates and ongoing support as needed. The CRA process usually involves partnering with the internal recruitment team, where you will finalise the search, though may require assistance throughout the process. CRA can also monitor candidate movements and track change for future reference.
Executive Search
As the market is passive and highly competitive, executive search is often recommended to directly approach candidates, after the completion of the map. Specifically, this is a discrete approach to hand pick individuals for positions, where senior, rare or specialised skills are required. Executive search enables a company to utilise a third party to ensure the search is discreet and successfully delivered end to end, without falling over at a crucial point in the process. This involves the initial approach, presenting the opportunity, gauging interest and negotiation at all stages, in a sensitive and confidential manner.
Market Mapping
Market mapping utilises a top down approach and provides a comprehensive snapshot and visibility of a market sector. It involves the gathering of market intelligence and research to assess industry dynamics and assist with competitor analysis. Specific intelligence typically includes market insights and trends, internal structures, reporting lines, key roles and salary details and helps to identify quality talent within a specific sector and organisation. Internally, market mapping assists with succession planning and benchmarking and also allows a business to remain competitive and of interest to key external talent.
Fee Structure
Hourly, Daily or Project Rate
A major proportion of our clients prefer to appoint CRA for several specific projects on an “internal / external” basis where there are substantial savings to be made, instead of paying individual search fees.
Flat Fee or Search Fee
At CRA we consider a flat fee structure is sometimes best suited to a small specific project requiring specialist arm’s length skills where a one off flat fee is appropriate. Otherwise the standard search fee will be more appropriate.
