Specialists in Retained Search

Setting the benchmark in the race for perfectionAs we move away from the Financial Crisis of 2008, it has never been more crucial to hire the right people. Mistakes of the past cannot be repeated, and so the lens of scrutiny is more-so on the topic of Executive Recruitment than ever before. As the pool of talent has grown, and barriers to international mobility are at an all-time low, organisations need to ensure that they can navigate through all available individuals and pick the right people, first time, every time.

A radical shift in Global Executive SearchWhilst the Executive Search industry has presented many Executives with a much-needed outfit to hire talent; the internet, easy global access, and social networking have created a densely populated market with difficult-to-identify competitive levers. Very few Executive Search firms have intensively focused practice-areas within which they provide industry-specific networks and market knowledge to utilise for their clients. In recognition of this, Harrison Frazer is extremely focused in each practice area.

There are very few Executive Search Consultancies which offer the level of focus, adaptability, and flexibility which Harrison Frazer does.

Go the extra mile, and then go another.”

About Harrison Frazer:Harrison Frazer was founded by two former Divisional Managers of UK-based Executive Search Firm: Mackenzie Stuart. Through outstanding performance, the two Divisional Managers were granted a capital investment by the Group CEO (Stephen Fairbank) to create the next breed in Tier-1 Executive Search: Harrison Frazer.

Our methodology has been developed as an amalgamation of previously successful methodologies pioneered and created by the two founding Directors during their many years prior with Mackenzie Stuart.

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“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.’Lawrence Bossidy, former COO of General Electric.

A Values Driven businessThere are four pillars to our success, and those which we stand by:

‘Knowledge-rich Culture’ - The technocratic shift in required skills means a deeper knowledge of our clients’ pressing needs (technical, not just corporate) is crucial. With this in mind, we foster a ‘knowledge-rich’ culture – each of our Consultants has a background in their respective industry sectors.

Professionalism - Harrison Frazer is a professional services firm from its periphery to its core. We don’t just ‘sell’ recruitment services, we create effective professional recruitment solutions for our clients. When both the product we deliver, and the client being served, are people, it is imperative for professionalism to be a core driver of how an Executive Search firm operates. We do not deviate from this imperative.

Client-Centric - At Harrison Frazer, we believe in a truly personal approach. Transactional relationships are a thing of the past – we focus on fostering lasting, meaningful, and valuable relationships with our clients. We work on the same side of the table in a Partnership model to ‘live and breathe’ our clients’ recruitment initiatives.

Interlinked - Our Consultants are engrained members of our internal corporate community. We take this very seriously – when part of the Harrison Frazer network, our Consultants are a part of a broader vision of trust and integrity. Our deep trust in one another; our single-firm-vision; and our mutual-benefits aligned compensation structure creates the environment needed for success beyond that of personal gain.

A focused approachdelivers focused resultsIt is no secret that effective organisations are led by an effective leadership team. The complex challenge of finding senior level executives is one which requires an extremely methodical approach at every step of the journey.

When it comes to finding the ‘right’ people, the cultural ‘fit’ is crucial. At Harrison Frazer, we adopt a very personable culture, and hence are well tuned to detect, understand, and deliver the cultural requirements of our clients. Each organisation has its own cultural environment, and we understand that before anything else, each candidate must be culturally aligned. In addition to our sensing of those who are culturally suitable, our integration methodology ensures that new Executives/Leaders are integrated quickly and successfully without sacrificing initial momentum within their new role.

Whilst the cultural fit is extremely important, we follow our tried and true method to ensure that all measures of fit are aligned between the candidate, and the position. These are: (1) Culture, (2) Metrics (performance); (3) Team-building ability; (4) Team-leading ability; (5) Capacity for quick integration; (6) Ambition.

Seamless executive search solutions, delivered with unrivalled efficiency.

Bespoke, industry-specific SearchWe pride ourselves on building winning relationships with both clients and candidates through in-depth sector expertise. Each of our industry practices has its own research team, which works in parallel with each Consultant to provide frequent updates on shifting industry-trends. Similarly, our Consultants provide feedback to our research teams with any additional information uncovered during the screening/interview process – we leave no stone unturned, the result of which is an incredibly rich base of knowledge-capital which we utilise in an advisory capacity for future clients. Our ethos is focused on our value adding capabilities undergoing continued growth – we only ever take steps forward.

As an end-to-end overview of our Search process, we execute the following:

• Market Mapping• Existing network utilisation• Approach to all appropriate candidates for the

defined role• Extensive interviewing of each candidate• Process/Interview management

• Offer-delivery management• Guidance through resignation process of

success candidate• Post-placement services to ensure the

candidate is settled in

Specialism has never been so importantThrough a combined set of industry specific expertise, and our dedicated research team, our Consultants are able to provide effective Executive Search solutions across functions, within an intensive focus both within, and across a broad scope of global industries.

We have specialised practice groups for each industry vertical, which are formed and tailored to offer flexibility, agility, and reactivity to our clients’ needs within each given industry sector, globally.

Our practice groups are:

• Energy, Utilities & Mining• Management Consulting• Financial Services• Chemicals & Plastics• Medical Devices

• Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences• Construction & Real Estate• Consumer & Retail• Technology, Media and Telecommunications

By operating under a specialist practice team within each practice group, we ensure that industry-specific competencies are focal to the ongoing growth of our internal knowledge capital. This creates the optimal environment for each practice group being effectively set up to take responsibility for its own “thought leadership” endeavours, so as to consistently improve Harrison Frazer’s competitive advantage within each given practice. The result – seamless executive search solutions, delivered with unrivalled efficiency.

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