Recruitment Methodology
Lawson Elliott’s recruitment process has been uniquely designed so that it can be specifically tailored to your business needs. Our goal is to find you the best possible shortlist of candidates in a timely and efficient manner.
We are accounting and finance specialists. Having extensively worked in and recruited for the accounting industry, we know it intimately and are best placed to assess a candidate’s interpersonal and technical skills. This unique position allows us to deliver the best results every time.
We meet with each client to take a full job specification and understand your candidate requirements.
We use a diverse range of tools to source the best possible candidates including:
- Industry events and partnerships
- Advertising
- Referrals
- Talent Mapping
- Geographical presence in key markets
- Industry leading database
- Email campaigns
- Social networking
The team at Lawson Elliott Recruitment are experts in writing advertisements to attract the best available talent on the market. We can advise you on the different advertising options that would be best suited to a particular role and industry.
We believe that the interview stage is the crucial first step to attaining a long term employee.
Unlike many of our competitors who ‘pool’ their candidates, we guarantee that the consultant looking after your position will personally interview every candidate sent to you.
The consultants at Lawson Elliott Recruitment are experts in conducting interviews and assessing the suitability of candidates for your position from a technical, personality and behavioural perspective.
Our thorough questioning combined with our accounting expertise, enables us to individually assess the best candidates to be put forward for your role. Having the best possible shortlist from the start saves you time and therefore money.
During our extensive candidate interviews, we use a combination of personality, technical and behavioural based questioning.
Technical questions are tailored to your role and the candidate's resume
Personality questions focus on the candidate's traits and charactistics
Behavioural based questions focus on areas such as time management, strategic thinking, teamwork, conflict resolution and process improvements
- We consider it essential to extensively brief candidates on your role before sending you their resume. This ensures candidates are committed and keen to interview with you.
- We provide the client with a shortlist of high qualified and fully briefed candidates
- We organise and coordinate the interview timetable between you and the candidate
- It is our belief that feedback is an essential ingredient to a successful interview process. Your Lawson Elliott consultant will keep you constantly updated on the timeframes that we are working to, provide you with candidate feedback after each interview and pass on your feedback to candidates.
- Reference checking is an extremely important part of the recruitment process. We will carry out a minimum of two refence checks and accept them only from direct reports of the candidate.
- We verify professional qualifications e.g. ICAA, CPA, NIA
- Manage the candidate offer process
- Manager potential counter offer
After the candidate has been placed, we will conduct regular follow-up phone calls and/or meetings with both the candidate and yourself to ensure a smooth induction and transition into your business.