Innovative and Ethical approach to Recruitment by Intelligent People, help clients find top-notch talent

The Silicon Review

In the competitive world, we live in, finding the right job can be quite a challenge. Candidates and employers find it hard to connect, resulting in a candidate missing out on a great job and an employer losing out on great talent. Recruitment agencies ensure that such scenarios do not arise and strive hard to bridge this gap. Today there are numerous excellent recruitment agencies; however, Intelligent People stand apart from them due to their efficiency and skill.

Intelligent People is a boutique recruitment agency, with over 20 years’ specialist knowledge of the market. It has placed experienced and executive level product management, marketing, ecommerce, and commercial leadership candidates within scale-up and enterprise B2B and B2C brands, in the UK and internationally .It specializes in retained executive search, permanent contingency recruitment, and contract/interim placements.

Services offered by the Intelligent People

Intelligent People strive to connect you with real talent and help you to quickly build a team that you’re proud of. It listens carefully to your needs and takes the time to understand what you are looking for. The agency, paints a picture of your perfect candidate including everything from education level, specific skills and knowledge, years of experience, previous brands worked for, demonstrable achievements and personal attributes. Using its experience and vast network, it’s Intelligent People’s job to connect you with real talent, help you to quickly build a team that you’re proud of and improve retention within your business .Its expert consultants and researchers manage recruitment projects from end-to-end. For its corporate and scale-up clients, Intelligent People advises on everything from employer branding, candidate profiling, salary benchmarking, search and engagement strategies, candidate assessment and selection processes and how to engage interim talent

Candidate profiling

After it has gathered your requirements at the kick-off meeting, Intelligent People is able to define what a suitable candidate profile looks like – to include number of years’ experience, knowledge, skill sets, personal attributes, education, and previous brands worked with. It also looks to the current market to offer advice on the structure of the team and specific job titles to attract the pool of candidates to the role.

Salary benchmarking

Intelligent People place candidates within its specialist areas of product, marketing, and eCommerce every day, so it is able to gather information on pay and benefits and track any changing trends across the full range of senior roles within these disciplines. Salaries can vary according to location, experience levels, niche domain experience, importance of the role to business growth and much more.The benefits of salary benchmarking are well known – getting the right salary can help to initially attract candidates to your business, also reducing attrition rates within existing employees too. It keeps an active eye on the packages offered by the rest of the market; ensuring clients always remain competitive within the marketplace.

Engagement strategy

As part of Intelligent People’s engagement strategy, it takes all candidates through a briefing process to include the business strategy, the roadmap, the objectives of the business and where their skills can help with business growth. It shows each candidate where they could be within 1 year, 3 years and 5 years at the business, highlighting growth and development opportunities, and giving them a reason to be excited by the prospect of joining. Engaging a candidate early on within the recruitment process is crucial, especially for those C-level roles, where the candidate may be considering several options.

Package and benefits

Intelligent People advise its clients on salary and packages, considering various business factors; size, sector, budgets, benefits and niche domain experience and skills required. It does this on a case-by-case basis, ensuring it takes into account market conditions too. It guides clients on packages that will secure the right candidate for the business, and will lead the offer process, and be on hand to help with any negotiations .Intelligent People have complied reference guides for salary expectations across its specialist disciplines; product, marketing, eCommerce and digital.

Employer brand

The Intelligent People are experts in attracting candidates to roles, and part of this is explaining to each candidate what the prospective employers ‘Employee Value Proposition’ is. An EVP is ‘what an organisation stands for, requires and offers as an employer.’ This can be everything from salary, holiday entitlement, perks, performance related bonuses, and other benefits including flexible working, company cars, wellbeing incentives and health insurance.

Engaging interims

Whether you are looking to cover a short-term skills gap, have a tactical project that needs completing or your business needs help to solve a specific problem, Intelligent People can help you to source interim contractors straight away. With its 35,000 strong candidate network, it can be hyper responsive to your brief and fill vacancies quickly. The agency can also help with any the legal requirements involved, protecting your business and ensuring confidentiality for high-profile assignments.

Meet the leader behind the success of Intelligent People

Chris Mason, Director Co-Founded Intelligent People in 2002 with Doug Bates, after initially meeting at a sales recruitment company. After 6 years’ experience in sales and then IT recruitment, Chris was a Regional Manager leading teams around 4 locations in the UK. Always wanting to run his own business, Chris decided the time was right to set up Intelligent People and use his vast industry experience to offer the best recruitment service to his new clients. Chris’ role at Intelligent People focuses on leading the team to success, overseeing operational areas of the business, but also working directly with clients that need help in finding experienced, executive level candidates.