::: CVCANAL CONSULTING | CORPORATE SERVICES :::

In a partnership, Let us Provide Your Business Solutions

» Method, Capability & Coverage

We learn about our clients' businesses and workforce challenges, and we understand that business solutions require more than just staffing. They require a thorough evaluation of your workforce needs and forecasting for future growth. Our core competency in managing your staffing requirements allows you to focus on your highest priority — growing a successful business.

Companies that partner with us are looking for quality employees and can rely on us to find them. We use cutting-edge assessment tools to search, evaluate, recruit and hire employees who will strive to increase your productivity and even exceed your expectations. Our extensive network of ATSIN partners throughout the African continent and overseas gives us the flexibility to meet your needs quickly.

Our dedication to quality and client satisfaction means we will continually work to understand and meet your changing workplace demands and improve our service to you.

Our services are characterized by high quality, added-value and differentiated assignments. We have a client-need, research and assessment approach base to recruitment.

With geographical specialization, we have broad coverage of the African markets both in the Francophone and Anglophone countries in Southern, Central, Western and Eastern Africa. Our African Talent Supply Intelligence Network (ATSIN) and candidate database allow us to have excellent international sourcing capacities for junior and senior executives.

» Recruitment based on past performance/achievements

Past performance history is the key to identifying top leadership talent for your company.

That’s why measurement of past performance is our primary discovery tool. We carefully peel back each candidate’s background layer by layer. If genuine accomplishment exists, we find it. It’s a methodical approach that spares you the "style over substance" trap - so often the hallmark of partially competent candidates. We focus on a person's ability to do the job, not just get the job. Our approach generates two key outcomes:

You Gain Reliable Prediction of Performance

Yes, personality, presentation skills and first impressions are important, but past performance is the best predictor of future performance.

We Find Hidden Talent

We identify the candidate whose talent might be hidden by a traditional experience-based search. This enables us to go well beyond resume bullets checked against required ‘experience’ bullets in a job specification. The result? Discovery of hidden talent (and a widening of the qualified candidate pool!)

» Problems with hiring we are aware of

There are several key factors that are the cause of most hiring errors:

Presentation is valued more than performance. There is more focus on the
Emotional aspects of how one feels about the candidate rather than on measuring the candidate’s job performance.
Most interviewers do not know the job. There is a lack of true understanding of what performance is required in order to ensure success for a new hire.
Good candidates aren’t necessarily good in an interview.
There are not enough quality candidates to consider. In order to hire top quality candidates, you have to find them. Internet recruiting is typically not the answer.

Several Errors Result:

Hire people who are partially competent
The best candidates are excluded from the pool
Will not retain top people if none are hired

Providing the Solutions

We address the problems of hiring and retaining top candidates. We know how to focus first on performance - not presentation, on knowing job needs, interviewing, sourcing, and increasing retention.

Hiring effectiveness means getting the right pool of applicants, selecting the best candidate from the pool, closing the best candidate on the best terms, and keeping the best in your organization.

Call us today - let us help you build stronger teams in your organization by increasing your hiring and retention effectiveness.

» Pricing policy outline

Cost isn’t the biggest issue in selecting CVCanal---but cost containment is clearly of critical importance to you in today’s competitive environment.

Historically, retained search and contingency cost models have been based on an arbitrary “percent of first year’s compensation”. While this model serves as a standard in the industry today, we believe our unique pricing model offers a better win-win approach.

With our model, we put the emphasis on laying the foundation for a long-term partnership between CVCanal Consulting and our client.

What we’ve discovered is that when cost is reflective of the actual time and effort expended in the search, the result is a fundamental shift in the client-recruiter relationship. As a result, we operate just like any other consulting firm you bring in to solve a problem for which you don’t have appropriate in-house expertise.

What’s The Motivation?

Our fees are not tied to candidate compensation – we are bias free.
Your goals are our goals. We aren’t motivated by the financial home run of fitting the ‘square peg in a round hole.’
Our ‘win’ comes only in the development of a long-term relationship.
We are motivated to prove this model on every search, insuring longevity of the partnership.

How It Works

A CVCanal search is initiated with a modest Engagement Fee.

We join your team. We help you develop a performance based profile that precisely defines your needs; we set goals together; we coach when it’s needed; we accept input---and we go to work.

We know what’s important and what’s not. We’re efficient---and you pay only when you employed the person we supplied you.

The Result?

While our aim is highest quality not lowest cost, our unique pricing model offers:

potential for significant savings when searches are completed quickly and efficiently.
potential for huge savings, particularly at the high end of the compensation spectrum, because search costs are linked to the search, not candidate compensation.
search fee caps to insure ‘old-model’ costs are never exceeded.

We’re confident you will find the benefits of this model as the best of both worlds – quality, with an eye toward cost, and a guaranteed stop-loss.

African Top Executive Search

Local & Cross border Recruitment

Strategic African geographical coverage with excellent growing candidate database