A Responsive and Committed Partner

While technology has made it easier in some ways for companies to find qualified candidates, it has made it even more difficult in other ways. It can be especially difficult to find top-level talent when you need someone with specialized knowledge and skills in specific industries or niche markets, where having the right experience is crucial to their success in your organization. As a boutique executive search firm, this where Lynne Palmer is strategically poised to help you.

Every client is important to us, and every search we conduct is unique. Lynne Palmer Executive Recruitment works closely with each client to understand their priorities and objectives. Our collaborative team offers deep industry and functional expertise to provide resources and solutions to the complex hiring challenges of a wide range of local and national clients.

Our comprehensive executive search process is focused on the long-term success of our clients as well as the success of our candidates in the positions they fill. With rigorous analysis and assessment, we support our clients through the entire process from providing an initial selection of candidates to the onboarding of a new hire.

Customized Recruitment Solutions

Over the years, we have tailored our executive recruitment process to meet the specific needs of the publishing, media, and medical communications industries. We have a strong focus on comprehensive analysis that takes full advantage of our industry expertise and deep referral networks. Our attention to detail and strategy-driven methodologies ensure that the searches we conduct reflect the position requirements, cultural values, and long-term goals of our clients.

Forming relationships built on trust is at the core of our recruitment process. As a partner and advocate of your organization, our goal is to accurately represent and promote your brand to prospective job candidates. We begin with a hands-on approach that dives deep into gaining a thorough understanding of our clients’ industries as well as their business objectives. During this first phase of the process, we are concerned with learning as much as we can about your company including team dynamics, working styles, and any diversity challenges you may be facing. We’ll also discuss the specific requirements for the role from both a technical and a managerial perspective. Before moving to the search phase of the process, a company-paced timeline, based on the business objectives of the client, is established and agreed upon.

Determining the priorities of our clients is the first step in shaping the search process. We begin by establishing clear search parameters based on your desired candidate characteristics and qualifications. Our team will offer insight and specialized industry perspective as we help you to develop a customized position description that will form the basis of our search. We’ll outline key responsibilities, core competencies, and unique challenges of the role as we perform an in-depth analysis of the position. Targeted research is done across industries and functions to locate potential candidates who are then put through our rigorous pre-screening and screening processes.

Lynne Palmer knows how critical the pre-screening process is. We are experts at assessing the true potential of our candidates to reliably and effectively evaluate prospective hires for our clients. During this part of the search process, we keep in regular contact with the client to give updates as well as receive valuable feedback on our progress. A series of internal meetings and detailed interviews are conducted during the candidate identification process and a list of prospects is presented to the client with comprehensive evaluations included for each candidate. At this time, we move to the employer interview part of the search phase. Both the client and the candidates are given extensive guidance ahead of the interviews to ensure that both sides are fully prepared and that valuable time is not wasted.

Connecting with your perfect hire is the part of the process that clients generally look forward to the most. We really enjoy this part too. It is one of the most exciting stages of the executive recruitment process, but it also one of the most delicate. We commonly assist clients during this critical part of the process by acting as a mediator to ensure that the needs of both the client and the candidate are met in a mutually agreeable deal.

Onboarding is often overlooked by recruiters but at Lynne Palmer, we appreciate the value of integrating new employees and immersing them into your culture as well as introducing them to the teams they will work with and any new tools they will be using. Even if your organization doesn’t have a formal onboarding process, our team can help you create an environment of employee engagement that will help your new hire feel welcomed and informed, and guide them on their path to success.

We work with new hires ahead of time to go beyond orientation and to fully prepare them for the onboarding process. We ensure that they know exactly what is expected of them in their new position from dress code to parking policies, to the strategic focus and goals of your organization. After the employee has started in their new position, we continue to perform regular check-ins with them, as well as with our client, to ensure that the onboarding process is going smoothly.

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