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CDM Recruitment Partners

We take a proactive, precision-led approach to recruitment - tailored to your business, aligned with your goals, and held to the highest standards. We’re not just another recruiter; we’re your partner in building a stronger, more capable team.

Let’s simplify your hiring. No Noise. No Nonsense. Just the Right People.

How We Operate

At CDM we pride ourselves on 'Building Winning Teams'.

We are a boutique agency, located in the Brisbane CBD, focusing on executive employment in a range of industries throughout Australia and abroad. CDM is dedicated to providing the highest possible level of customer service, sourcing the best candidates in the marketplace and establishing and maintaining positive business relationships with our clients. Having a close relationship with our client allows us at CDM to gain an in depth understanding of your recruitment needs and provides us the opportunity to sell the benefits of your company to candidates, further eliminating competition from your competitors.

Our Process

01 Briefing

When we are asked to undertake an assigment, we aim to meet as many relevant people in the organisation as possible. It is most important to understand our client's business, it's culture and the people with whom the successful candidate will work. We can often play an important part in helping to structure the job to optimise our client's objectives. At this stage we advise on the salary and benefits package likely to be necessary to attract the right person, and the state of the market.

02 Shortlist

Within an agreed time, we present an initial shortlist of the best candidates for the role. Exceptional candidates will be presented earlier as we find them. We do not stop searching after the initial shortlist but will keep presenting candidates until our client finds the right person. All candidates are presented with a detailed profile describing their personal and professional background, their strengths and weeknesses for the job in question and our assessment of their potential. Notes of sources and referees comments may also be provided.

03 Negotiation

We manage the interview process, confirming all appointments with both parties. We ensure clarity of information throughout the negotiation process and manage both parties exepectations to ensure that, when an offer is made, it is accepted.

We regard it as part of our job to help negotiate a successful deal.

04 Due Diligence

We believe that the most important predictor of success in the future roles is success in the previous ones. We therefore spend as much time talking to other people about successful candidates as to the candidates themselves. The resulting detailed reference report not only confirms that the right person has been hired, but also indicates how best to manage and motivate the individual. We check all relevant academic and professional qualifications and probe Curriculum Vitae in detail, closing any chronological gaps.

Assignments

At CDM Recruitment Partners we believe that each vacancy will demand different procedures from your recruitment consultant.This means that we will tailor the solution for each of your vacancies.

What does this mean to you? You won't receive an 'off the shelf' recruitment solution. We will discuss and recommend the appropriate process to provide you with the best outcome possible. The assignment structure that we tailor for you will fall into one of the following groups :

RETAINED SEARCH
The benefits of a retained search are primarily based around commitment. As the client pay a portion of the fee at the start of the assignment all our costs as recruiters are covered.We are then able to fully dedicate ourselves to sourcing and selecting the best available candidates without distraction.

EXCLUSIVE ASSIGNMENT
You as a client brief us and agree to a fixed term where you will only accept candidates referred by us. This again enables us to focus on only your assignment. This however, doesn't include the thorough reporting and research included in the retained assignment.

CONTINGENT ASSIGNMENT
This is where a client will brief several recruiters and the first to produce the candidate will achieve the fee. We believe that often this will produce the worst outcome for both client and candidate yet paradoxically is the norm in todays market.We would value the opportunity to discuss the best solution to your recruitment needs. We are sure that you will be impressed by the service and the outcome.

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Our Recruitment Techniques

IDENTIFICATION
We draw upon four key search techniques to identify the widest range of potential candidates. Each is applied internationally where necessary.

RESEARCH
Through a combination of current industry knowledge and further research we seek to identify as many people as possible who have appropriate experience and qualifications.

SOURCING
We network comprehensively among the colleagues, clients, suppliers and competitors of our targets candidates. As well as adding new names to our list of potential candidates, this helps us to build a clearer picture of the experience and abilities of those identified by the other means.

ADVERTISING
An eye catching, well written and correctly placed advertisement will identify further candidates who cannot easily be found by other methods; for example, where the pool of potential candidates is large and diverse, where candidates are seeking to return to Australia from overseas, and where individuals with strong relevant experience from earlier in their careers have now moved into other roles, Our advertisements are concise and attractive.

DATABASE
We have been senior recruiters in the listed specialist fields for many years. In these specific areas we maintain an extensive database of potential candidates.

Our Selection Process

ATTRACTION
Regardless of the way in which we identify candidates, they need to be attracted.

At the heart of the value we add is our ability to sell the job strongly to the best candidate and convey our enthusiasm of the client's firm.

The best people alway have choices; we are competing for their interest. The first approach and all subsequent discussions with potential candidates are always made by the Senior Consultant who has been fully briefed by the client. We do not use junior researchers for this purpose.

SELECTION
Our primary aim in the selection process is not only to assess their specific credentials but also their cultural and personality fit with our clients. In many cases we also have the specialist expertise to benchmark the level of a candidates technical skills against their peer group. This involves a carefully structured interview, exploring motivations and identifying hard evidence to support claimed achievements. For some positions, particularly when an appointment will involve a significant career change for the chosen candidate, we may recommend a professional psychological assessment.

To avoid conflicts of interest, we do not conduct these in-house.

We can recommend independent occupational psychologists whom we have thoroughly vetted and over whom we exercise quality control.

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