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• Founded in 1983
• Ownership acquired by
Sherilyn Shackell in 2001
• Executive search and
talent management
services on a global scale
• Based in the United
Kingdom, with
global reach through
membership of IMD
International Search
Group
• AESC Member Firm
• Practice focus is on
Consumer, Technology
and Service Sectors
Sherilyn Shackell hesitated when she first
considered switching to a new search
software provider. Now she sees reduced
overheads, better productivity... and regrets
not making the leap sooner.
The Highfield Human Solutions Group consists of aligned businesses
and commercial partnerships which provide a range of services and
solutions from board level Executive Search to strategic consulting,
from leadership development to career transition and global talent
mapping.
They were looking for a new executive search solution that was elegant
and easy to use, so that it would be quickly adopted by everyone
in the firm. In 2010 they selected and implemented Invenias. The
result? “It’s been brilliant,” Shackell says. “Invenias is transformational.
Because of its ease of use, we were immediately able to redeploy our
internal resources. The net outcome was that we were able to save
one full-time head in research and one in administration and apply
their skills to other tasks.”
Shackell says she was surprised to learn that an executive search
software platform could have such an impact – not only on the search
process and how her team works – but also on her firm’s bottom line.
“Invenias is money saving from an administration basis. The
reporting is much more intuitive, much quicker. The integration
with web applications is huge. The researchers would say the most
transformational impact has been the ease of pulling information from
other sources,” Shackell observes.
Sherilyn Shackell
CEO
www.highfielduk.co.uk
“Another benefit is that the time it takes us to execute an assignment
has sped up by 20-25 percent,” she adds. “That’s not just measured in
research time, but also in our search consultants’ time because they
can communicate more quickly and update our records to report on
conversations more easily.”
What’s more, she adds: “We found Invenias so intuitive that the
learning curve was really fast – the new way of doing things – we were
able to use it within a day because of the intuitive nature of the system.
My fear was that we’d have months of pain making the change. I can
look back and with the marvellous clarity of hindsight recognize that I
sat on the fence too long and that cost me a lot of money.”
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