As we identify your targets, we’ll provide you with a full showcase of relevant target companies and individuals that appear to be suitable.
Without exception, clients find these snapshots to be insightful and valuable, and process also offers the ability to share ongoing feedback, allowing us to calibrate the long lists and short lists for your approval.  Our approach gives you direct and 24/7 access to our work-in-progress and candidate reports on our CRM system

We always start with a thorough job briefing with you, gaining a deep and nuanced understanding of your business and role, before paying meticulous attention to the agreed Key Selection Criteria for qualified candidates. We can also advise you as appropriate on market conditions and remuneration.

Ours is a rigorous approach that pays significant dividends for you, for us and for the candidates.

Populus is persuasive, we know exactly how to promote your opportunity to your target audience, how to make it truly appealing to upper-quartile candidates, and how to do so with a motivational momentum.

We pay particular attention to preparing the dialogue for the first approach to candidates, to convert a candidate’s passive interest into an engaged commitment to your opportunity.

Our research-driven approach will be specifically designed to meet the individual nature of your recruitment challenge.

We will agree on timescales and specific dates with you for the presentation of the chosen candidates and your first interviews, enabling you to plan precisely. (At Populus, 85% of offers are made within six weeks of commencement).

We always interview candidates face-to face online. (We prefer to conduct rigorous competency-based interviews, influenced by the specific challenges and priorities of your role).

After thorough pre-screening, a face-to-face discussion allows for wider, deeper and more subtle questioning, stimulating more accurate insights into the candidate’s experience, skills and motivations, summarised in our incisive analysis and reporting.

It also means that our precise research is followed by precise candidate matching. In saving you so much time, clients find that our recommendations carry lots of weight and lighten their workload.

If you so wish, we’ll be pleased to attend your interviews with our shortlisted candidates.

Populus always offers to obtain formal references of the successful candidate on your behalf.

We’d like you to be wholly comfortable with your choice and our recommendation.

At Populus, we also pay particular attention to the post-acceptance period.

We’ll keep in regular touch with your pending employee, providing advice and information and concluding everything positively. We’re also happy to make suggestions about elements of your induction program if you so wish and will conduct a structured catch-up after the first month of employment.

Populus is always keen to obtain your feedback about our performance and feel confident that we’re never more than a phone call away.