The executive recruiting process Y Scouts employs involves 3 distinct discovery phases: Purpose, Personality and Profession Discovery.
Y Scouts is a purpose based executive search firm that helps organizations recruit leadership talent. We believe that people are the only real competitive advantage in business. That’s why Y Scouts invests in understanding our client’s purpose, culture, competitive landscape, challenges and people. Our executive recruiting process involves 3 distinct discovery phases:
Purpose Discovery
The Purpose Discovery Phase is conducted through a series of electronic and personal discussions. The difference is that our interviews aren’t conducted with a specific job or company as the “prize.” Our experience shows that once a candidate has seen the details of the job and company, they are able to ‘customize’ their answers to interview questions and attempt to appear more suited to the role for which they are interviewing. By removing the specific job details as the main focal point during this initial phase, we are able to understand the desires, motivations, passions, and purpose of each individual. The answers we hear provide a significant level of depth, honesty and transparency that is unachievable when the details of the job have already been revealed.
Personality Discovery
The Personality Discovery Phase begins with a brainstorming session with the key stakeholders of the organization who understand and can articulate why the role looking to be filled exists. Throughout this phase, the Y Scouts team facilitates a process that yields the required personality mix of competencies, motivators and behaviors necessary for success in the role. Once the ideal personality footprint is identified, potential candidates who have significant purpose alignment are measured against the personality benchmark. All candidates are required to complete the online benchmarking assessment to ensure they have the appropriate personality ‘DNA’ to be successful in the role.
Profession Discovery
The Profession Discovery Phase focuses on the professional background, experiences, skills, education milestones, interview performance, and reference validation. This phase either confirms or denies the likelihood of whether or not a potential candidate will be formally submitted as a top performer. Most executive search firms begin and end their candidate vetting process by solely using this phase. The purpose based approach Y Scouts takes puts this phase at the end.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO delivers great talent to your organization while giving back to you your most scarce resource: Time. Let Y Scouts be your recruiting team for as long as you need it – it’s all we do.
No matter how many business executives we ask, they all say the same thing – “Finding the best talent to join our team is the most important thing we can do.” Yet somehow, very few companies are ‘best in class’ when it comes to attracting and selecting the best talent to fit their organizations. Why is that? We believe the biggest contributing factor is a lack of time. There is always a project or task that requires immediate attention, something that has a specific deadline. Attracting and selecting talent is an ongoing effort; it requires constant attention, constant monitoring, constant communication – it requires consistent dedication. That’s why recruitment process outsourcing RPO is a great option.
The business of Y Scouts is recruiting – that’s all we do. The art and science of connecting people and companies is our business, and at the risk of sounding too confident, we are damn good at it.
So, what is recruitment process outsourcing RPO? The Y Scouts RPO model is designed to give you your time back. Let us be your professional talent attraction function so you can do what you do best – focus on growing your business. Here are a few key benefits of our RPO model:
- Connect with people who want more than a paycheck – they want to work for a company that is making a difference
- Economies of scale – instead of hiring one internal recruiter or a team of internal recruiters, hire the Y Scouts team of recruiters who have deep expertise in a variety of industries and functional areas and will work tirelessly to find you the right talent for your open positions
- Cost savings – for a fraction of the cost of hiring your own recruiting team, hire the Y Scouts team to be your recruiting arsenal
- One Point Person – you’re not going to be chasing down 15 Y Scouts in order to get everyone up to speed on your company. Instead, you’ll have one point person that has access to the arsenal of Y Scout recruiters who specialize in multiple industries.
- Professional representation – in the war for talent, having the best people represent you can make all the difference
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