finding “people”; finding business solutions with found us
So what do we actually do at found us? Simple. Head hunting and consultancy services. All within the sphere of advertising, media, and marketing businesses. It is where our all our experience comes from. It is what we love.
It has been a great seven and a half years of bringing senior people together, and assisting businesses in their journey.
Feel free to get in touch at anytime to have a chat about what it is we do, and here are a few details for you to chew upon.
Head Hunting
So what is this? It is not a great phrase to be honest. And I put it in the same camp as “search and selection” and a variety of other similar phrases. However, I have to use the lexicon of the industry or no one will understand me.
Very simply I know a lot of people, and people I know also know a lot of people. And where I don’t know people I talk to them. And these strangers do chat back as they can see who I know, and can see I have worked in the business. I am a people person and have a knack for seeing opportunities between people and putting them together. I’ve done it for years and way before I started found us back in 2014.
What is this element of the business?
It is bringing people together from an employment perspective across to an investment perspective; and in plain language it is placing people in a role as a Director, Partner, Investor and the like.
People approach me over a business need where a person may be required to satisfy this need, or they need a senior role filling. In the former my business experience allows me to work closely to map out the business need and thus person. In the second we have a brief that requires a person.
Traditionally I focus on senior people. What is senior? Well, the last two roles placed were Executive Creative Director and Marketing Director both working on major brands. Both quite different. One a prescriptive brief, the other less prescriptive and involved my working closely with the business to define the need.
But this not a drive through service, it is much more discerning. And probably explains why I’ve lasted over seven years in what can be a somewhat turgid business where unreliability can come to the fore.
I work hard to examine a business need or brief unleashing the legal, commercial, advertising knowledge I have. Coupled with having held a number of Board positions in my career.
But I love process and tech and use these to a) run the “how” of head hunting/search and selection, b) accumulate data, c) analyse said data. That way the client knows exactly where they are in the recruitment process and who in terms of candidate they are dealing with. Senior hires are important to a business and a client.
We have a strong success rate at placing senior people, giving pleasure to them and their careers. For our clients, they have one less thing to worry about and acquire solid senior people for the growth of their business,
We love, yes we really do love working with people. Those we know and those we speak to for the first time. And we have long standing relationships with the people we deal with. Don’t hesitate to ask for testimonies.
Consulting
A broad term and one that attracts a lot of misconception and “charlatans”. Well, consulting for me is simply a “placeholder” term. A simple phrase that encompasses what we do; one I use to explain that companies use us for our experience, knowledge, and results in order to further growth, make changes, implement process.
We work with companies on Sales, Marketing, and Media strategy and implementation. We are skilled in getting into the depths of a business and working with staff, in a non-threatening way, to further results, empower people, and give them pleasure in what they do.
Technology
I believe strongly in using the latest tools to achieve results and track activity. Whether it is Creditsafe, Nutshell, or plain old LinkedIn; all are used to give that edge to our head hunting and consultancy. Tools our clients can use to track progress and results. After all metrics are important.