Our Service to Employers
Seltek Consultants was established in 1985 and the partners Guy Buncombe and Rod Lock have been involved in recruitment since the 1970s. Since our inception Seltek has specialised in technical sales and marketing recruitment. Labtek Consultants was formed in 2001 as a separate division of Seltek to enable us to provide a more complete recruitment service to our customers in the scientific markets.
Our Goal : Service and Results. We understand that the calibre of a company’s staff is probably the most important factor in determining its success. And for management personnel, it’s critical! Therefore our goal is simple – to introduce candidates who have consistently performed at higher levels than average within your industry; candidates who will go the extra mile, and who can work within your culture.
The Difference: The majority of our candidates are found through recommendation, referral and direct approaches to key individuals and high performers, not through advertising. Although advertising has its place, our clients are telling us that for those positions where specific skills and experience are required, advertisements can be expensive, time consuming and ineffective. And the reasons are clear. Most of the applicants replying to your advertisement will be unemployed, unqualified or unhappy in their work. Committed high calibre individuals are too busy producing results to be reading the situations vacant columns in newspapers or magazines. However, if approached in the proper manner by a professional recruiter, these people will seriously consider career moves.
Market Specialists: Our consultants spend many hours each week getting to know and updating information on their market sector. So, whether it’s Drug Discovery, Molecular Biology or Biochemistry, they can advise on salary levels, skill availability, and may well be aware of specific individuals who meet or exceed your specification.
High Technology Systems: The human skills that we apply to our work – perceptive questioning of people’s requirements – are amply backed up by one on the most powerful and sophisticated software systems available. The number one seller in America, it has an exceptional search engine specifically designed for the recruitment market, enabling us to identify suitable candidates from the 50,000 records we have available to us.
Three Levels of Seltek Service
Executive Research: For difficult-to-fill positions, or positions where absolute discretion is required, or when an exact skill-set must be found, then retained search is the method of choice. Only by approaching recruitment in a focused and dedicated manner, can one discover not just the best of the people who are currently available in the job-market, but the best person in the relevant field altogether.
Advertised Selection: If you have several positions to fill simultaneously, or if you are looking for people in several geographic locations, then we recommend advertising. We are happy to handle the entire project and present you with the final shortlist, or to work hand-in-glove with you at every stage, whichever approach suits you best. In these cases we work on a retained basis, but we reduce our standard fees and charge in three trenches – one third upon acceptance of the assignment, one third upon interview and the final third upon offer / acceptance. Advertising costs are borne by the client, but we are happy to pass on the discounts enjoyed by recruitment companies.
Database Search: Our database is not a list of hopeful applicants who have sent in uninvited CV’s. The vast majority have been fully interviewed and assessed, and in most cases reference checked. As described above they have been sourced from referrals, recommendation or previous advertising campaigns. Many of these successful individuals do not need to move, but have made clear to us the type of career opportunities for which they would move. With over 50,000 records searched in seconds we can identify candidates with a variety of industry experience.
One of the key benefits of using Labtek Consultants’ retained services, is that we can, if necessary, use any combination of the three methods simultaneously, to provide the very best results for our clients, both in terms of speed, accuracy and value for money. Therefore, when we are engaged to conduct an advertised search, we will augment the results of the programme, by targeted headhunting, and of course an extensive database search as well.