| Q | Are they a specialist service or merely an add-on to a permanent recruitment or management consultancy? How long have they operated this service? |
| BIE | We have been specialist interim management providers since 1990 when the team established PA Consulting Group's interim practice. |
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| Q | How many successful interim management placements has the individual consultant personally made? At what level? In what industries? Across what functions? Over what period? |
| BIE | Our consultants have a combined 55 years experience of undertaking assignments across all functions and all industries, private and public sectors and at all levels. Individual consultants have between five and thirteen years operational provider experience and have undertaken circa 2,000 assignments between them. |
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| Q | What processes of selection do they use — a ‘handpicked’ register or a database of unseen candidates? |
| BIE | We have a handpicked register of the best interim managers in the UK, filtered from interviewing thousands of potential candidates over a thirteen year period. |
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| Q | Do they meet the client? Do they develop an assignment brief prior to identifying candidates? |
| BIE | Our recommended process is a face-to-face meeting with the client to whom the interim manager will report. We will then produce a detailed brief which is agreed with the client prior to candidate short-listing. |
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| Q | Do they identify only one or two appropriate and recommended candidates, or do they present numerous CVs? |
| BIE | We initially present one or two short-listed interim managers backed by the consultant's recommendation from personal knowledge of the best available resources in the UK. |
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| Q | Do they present candidates who work with them regularly? Do they know their candidates well? How well? |
| BIE | We have a reputation for maintaining close contact with the top interim managers. All interims have been met, usually on several occasions, prior to being considered for assignments. The BIE team has extensive knowledge of the UK talent pool of high quality candidates having worked with them on over 2,000 assignments.
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| Q | Do they attend the interview meeting or treat the process totally at ‘arms length’? Are candidates fully briefed before the interview? |
| BIE | Our consultants prefer to attend the interview meeting as this is regarded as one of the most important stages in providing a full service to the client. Candidates are therefore always fully briefed before the meeting. |
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| Q | How much do they supervise/keep in touch/facilitate once the assignment is underway? |
| BIE | We maintain contact with both the client and the candidate throughout the assignment and we audit assignments on completion. |
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| Q | Have they preferential supplier status with reputable organisations? Can you talk to current and past clients? |
| BIE | We are preferred supplier to major plcs, public sector organisations and venture capitalists including 3i. References from major organisations can be given. |
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| Q | Is there a potential conflict of interest? For example, should your auditor provide your Interim Financial Director? If a headhunter provides your interim executive, could the search process lose momentum? |
| BIE | There is no conflict of interest when working with BIE as we are independent, specialist interim executive providers. |
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