Among the services offered by Gary Hill is the much-in-demand service to source excellent workers to an ever-growing number of industries across the UK. We have established ourselves as the go-to HR partner for many business sectors including construction, private nursing, remote work, warehousing, and retail. Read our case studies below to discover how we help SMEs find the perfect staff to fill their vacant positions.
Lovat House
The Challenge
To source an experienced careworker at short notice to join a family run care home
Maintaining a well-run care home like Lovat House that has the resident’s well-being as the very top priority, is not an easy task. Many care homes in the UK have received negative press in recent years, and it is nearly always due to staff who should not be in the business of caring for vulnerable people. The personnel in a care home need to have close contact with the people in their care, and in many cases, will be there for their charges at the end of their lives. As such, in a sector that typically has more open vacancies than job seekers, finding the right staff to fill care home positions can be a challenge.
The Search Equation is a digital marketing company that offers all types of marketing services to small and medium UK businesses. While finding freelancers to help with tasks associated with a digital business is easy enough through gig sites, finding the right person to run the social media accounts of half a dozen diverse businesses, who could emulate the appropriate tone for each client is not so straightforward.
Javea Properties
The Challenge
To find a multi-lingual person with experience in selling real estate (who was also willing to relocate!)
Javea Properties is a Spain-based real estate agency that needed to find a bilingual person (English and Spanish) with some knowledge of German, aswell as experience in selling real estate, who either lived on the Costa Blanca or was willing to relocate. This job had been advertised locally for two months, but the right candidate had failed to materialise. We soon found the task of finding people willing to escape the gloomy UK weather and relocate to the Costa Blanca was understandably not the most difficult aspect of this request. Finding people who also had experience selling homes wasn’t the hardest part of the job, either. However, finding someone who had experience selling homes, who had the required languages, and was willing to move to another area proved to be a little tougher.
The Solution
Unlike in the UK where most British-born citizens speak only English, Holland is a country where most adults speak between 2 and 5 languages. We advertised this job on a Dutch job board in the sales staff section.
The Results
Over the next few weeks, we shortlisted two candidates after conducting interviews over Skype. The successful candidate, Johan T, has a Spanish father and as a bonus also speaks fluent French as well as Dutch, English, and German. His sales background did not stretch to real estate as he sold advertising space for his previous company, but it was clear he had a passion for selling and could succeed in other areas.
Our client says: “Locally, we just couldn’t find the right person. Although there are plenty of people looking for a job who speak some English and Spanish, few are bilingual and even fewer can offer proven sales skills. Johan is surpassing our expectations and we are confident with his talents he’ll become one of our top-performing sales staff of 2020.”
Smoking Chili Media
The Challenge
To find an out of this world UX designer!
Smoking Chilli Media needed an e-commerce designer to join their growing team working from their Kent office. The right candidate needed to be an expert in up-to-date cutting edge design and UX. Memorable web design and creative thinking are key to the companies’ business.
The Solution
To fill this vacancy, we used Toptal, which is a talent network that prevets UX designers to make sure their skills are up to demanding UX tasks. This service is not cheap, and neither are the designers, but SCM were looking for quality rather than a cheap hire.
The Results
Within two weeks the company offered the role to Michael D, who was keen to start a fixed career and leave behind the neverending job acquisition process involved when freelancing. Michael is a hybrid designer, very experienced in both UX/UI and visual design. He has freelanced for 15 years designing the UX/UI for web and mobile apps in a range of diverse sectors, including computer games and consumer products.
Our client says: “Staff sourcing by GH Consulting is second to none. Gary understood our requirements perfectly. Our successful candidate will be starting next week, and we cant wait to see what creative ideas he brings to the table.”