Interim management has great synergy with permanent recruitment.

Firstly, many of the placements we make are to bring senior management cover while a recruitment process is underway. Recruiting a senior person in today’s tight labour market can easily take 3-4 months, plus notice periods that can be 1-3 months. Interim is perfect for closing the gap while the recruitment process proceeds, and reduces the risk of making a bad selection in haste.

Secondly, we can offer interim managers who become permanent. Some of our panel are interested in a permanent role, if the right organisation and role comes along. They work as an interim while you run the recruitment process, but they can also be a permanent candidate. If both client and interim want the relationship to become permanent, we step out of the relationship. This is a very low risk way of making senior appointments – both sides have fully “test driven” each other but without any longer term employment risk or obligation.

Thirdly, we can make a direct permanent placement from our panel. This can be a very rapid process – in some cases senior executives have been in place 2-3 weeks after our original briefing from the client.