COMMENTS FROM OUR EXECUTIVE CLIENTS

Harris Hill Executive helped Against Breast Cancer to recruit a new Charity Director. This was a crucial appointment to replace myself, the Founder, and to take the charity forward into a new stage of growth. They worked with us to ensure that we were absolutely sure that we had found the best person for the job. She really understood the importance of the project and its impact on our organisation. In addition, the standard of communication and service was of a very high quality at all stages of the recruitment process.

Your staff have been wonderful to work with. They were extremely tenacious in their desire to help us hire a UK Executive Director at Open Arms International when we have so few resources to work with. They were creative in their approach and they did not give up easily. They are to be commended and you are very fortunate to have employees like them.

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.