COMMENTS FROM OUR EXECUTIVE CLIENTS

Gingerbread - One Parent Families used Harris Hill to recruit a new Director of Fundraising & Supporter Relations. I was very impressed with the quality of service that we received from Harris Hill Executive, in particular on two key points:

- The quality of the candidates that we received from Harris Hill was very high. The candidates had been thoroughly interviewed to ensure their relevance to our role. As a result, we interviewed all 3 candidates on their shortlist.
- The speed at which THEY acted on our behalf, and the efficient communication at each stage. This ensured that we didn't miss out on good candidates and were kept up to date with their availability at all times.

We would recommend Harris Hill as an excellent choice of consultancy as a senior Executive recruitment partner.

The Parkinson's Disease Society's relationship with Harris Hill commenced in October 2008, when we embarked on a recruitment campaign for our Director of Fundraising vacancy. As this is a crucial role for the Society, it was essential that we were working in partnership with the right organisation which would bring to us candidates of the calibre we were expecting.
We therefore invited 3 carefully chosen search & selection agencies to tender for this process, including Harris Hill. It was immediately clear to the tender panel that, through their ways of working and the expertise of their senior consultants, Harris Hill could offer us a choice of candidates of the calibre we needed, and that they were genuine in their desire to help us. Our ultimate criterion for a successful partnership was that we would, within a specific (and tight) timescale and having seen an appropriate range of applicants, have in post a Director who would lead this critical aspect of our organisation. By working closely with us and in a way that felt like they were part of our organisation rather than an external consultancy, Harris Hill achieved this for us. At all times during the process they worked with us in a professional and effective way, even when our timescales placed them under pressure to deliver.
As a result of that successful recruitment campaign, we have continued our relationship with Harris Hill in other roles, the most recent being Head of Commissioning Support where again they delivered to what we know are their consistently high standards. We look forward to working with them in the future and I recommend them highly as an extremely effective and reliable organisation for senior level search and selection.

On behalf of the board of trustees, I would like to thank Sandra at Harris Hill for her excellent leadership in undertaking the recruitment of both interim and full-time Chief Executive Officers for the charity.

I am certain that we have secured an outstanding individual for the charity, in the confidence that we have undertaken a thorough and rigorous search of a wide range of high-quality candidates. Tim and I were particularly impressed by Sandra's insightful interview notes and quality of judgement, which were exercised on our behalf in developing a short-list. Excellent support was also provided to us in facilitating the final interviews, and leading the panel discussions to a satisfactory conclusion.

I have no hesitation in recommending to the trustees that Harris Hill be retained for future Senior Level recruitment assignments, or in recommending Harris Hill to other charities.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People used Harris Hill to search for a Chief Executive. From start to finish we received a highly professional and skilled 'personal' service, perfectly tailored to our specific needs.

The team, led by Alexandra Kurn, took the effort to get to know and understand the charity; visited our centres, talked to trustees and staff, and really absorbed the ethos of the charity. Their announcements and searches produced a record number of very high quality applications.

Throughout the process of the search, long-listing, short-listing and interviews we were made to feel that we were their only clients, and Alexandra was always available for help and advice.

Appointing a Chief Executive is a crucial but highly demanding task for charity trustees - Harris Hill's professionalism, personal involvement and attention to detail gave us the confidence to reach the right decision for our charity.