About Shikari Group
Shikari Group specializes in customized solutions to executive and professional search. We find the best match for the role you need to fill, exceeding your expectations not only for the successful candidate’s qualifications but also for the way he or she fits into your organization’s unique corporate culture. This is what our strength is.
We can make this promise because as a boutique consulting firm we have the flexibility to take a custom-designed approach to each search. Our team of professionals works with you to develop a profile of the most appropriate candidate by truly understanding your firm at a very in-depth level. Then, using the most advanced, sophisticated and customized search methods, we find and deliver that person.
Our Mission
In order to realize our vision, our mission must be to exceed the expectations of our clients whom we define as our employers, and candidates and our fellow employees. We will accomplish this by committing to our shared values and corporate philosophy and by achieving the highest levels of client satisfaction, with extraordinary emphasis on quality deliverables and the creation of value.
Principles
Corporate Vision
Shikari Group and its associates will be regarded as the best and most sought after executive search firm in the world.
Corporate Values
Our framework of values is what defines our behaviour and posture as an executive and professional search firm. As we serve our clients, our framework of values is seamless across the following principles:
- Respect for all stakeholders involved with our firm (clients,
candidates, employers). - Innovative thinking, Imagination, Creativity
- Integrity, Ethics, Credibility and Trust
- Leadership, Accountability and Performance
- Passion, Agility, Tenacity, Urgency, Perseverance
- Inspiration of Excellence
- Quality, Reliability and Competence
The combination of the above values is what we live by. This is what allows us to have the confidence in creating and delivering exceptional values and quality to our clients.
Corporate Philosophy
Our primary goal is to create success stories for our clients, organizations and candidates whom we place through competent executive and professional search counsel.
Our level of commitment and drive to deliver superior excellent work extends to each individual we come across in the process. From the human resource professional whom we act as an extension, to the executive who is expecting exceptional talent to be infused into his or her organization and the candidate whose livelihood depends upon the next opportunity to move his or her career forward. This holistic approach to executive and professional search is the fabric of our firm’s ability to continue treating everyone we come in contact with exactly the same we would like to be treated.
Promise
Our Promise
We are a boutique service. We are not all things to all people. We are a generalist firm and in each search assignment we take full responsibility for its outcome. We provide appropriate guarantees to the client. Because we are small and restrict our number of searches, we are not blocked from many companies in any one industry because of prior client relationships. We are free to contact the best and brightest.
Expert Staff
All of our associates are carefully selected to manage particular areas of expertise. Equipped with relevant industry experience, each Shikari Group representative acts as a credible ambassador for your company and consistently adds value to your services and understanding your organizational needs. Efficiency and commitment are what drive our assignments, and the synergies created from the professionalism of a worldwide best practices mindset ensure successful strategic recruiting.
Customizable Searches
Clients appreciate how we spend the extra time required at the beginning of a search to understand their perspective, which allows us to provide the most qualified and suitable candidate for the job.
We do not devote energy building a database; we build relationships. In today’s information age, databases can be built in a week that consists of hundreds of thousands of qualified candidates. They can be purchased or leased. We utilize databases as a fraction of a candidate pool and to verify resume accuracy. Each search that we undertake is considered a unique role and we begin each search through a lens focusing on its uniqueness and actively pursue candidates in a far more strategic and focused manner.
Individual Attention
We limit the number of current assignments very carefully. We are highly tenacious in difficult assignments and ensure that the client is kept informed of marketplace conditions.
We limit the number of searches handled by each consultant to no more than 3–4 assignments at any one time and those assignments are seldom started on the same day. Thus they are evenly paced. We make certain that whatever projects we undertake are time and cost effective and completed with concentrated dispatch.
Client Focused
We are very highly focused on both the client and the candidate in every project we undertake. We aim to build long-term relationships and to ensure that the client experiences a very high level of comfort and satisfaction with our work and the results.
We provide excellent on-going communication throughout each project. We don’t want the client to experience unpleasant surprises. We want them to know at every stage of the assignment the progress made, the market reaction to the opportunity, and who has been recommended for contact and why.
We send the client a full status report every month during the project’s duration. These report documents where we have been – companies researched and contacted – whom we have talked to, contacted and interviewed and what our conclusions are at that stage.
Detailed Communication
We prepare candidate documentation to the clients’ needs in terms of length, depth of information, and subjective information, all of which would affect the likely outcome of the hiring.
When the candidate has come onboard, we still maintain a close relationship and to ensure a smooth transition provide a 6-month support program designed to individual needs if required. It is built into our recruiting service.
Proven Track Record
In addition, as a result of our functional expertise and proven track records, we are able to assist our clients by providing counsel in the following areas: defining positions and the requisite experiences/candidate credentials needed for a professional to be successful in those positions; outlining and defining best-in-class practices for a specific function; organizational structure as it relates to an overall department and its performance in terms of supporting clients’ corporate business objectives.
Finally, the most valuable assets we bring are the trust and confidence of our clients, the candidates with whom we have relationships, and the coveted marketplace sources with whom we interact – the brand equity we have with these constituencies is the most solid in our industry. With this level of respect and trust, all of our external constituencies have a high level of confidence in our abilities.
to Diversity
Commitment to Diversity
Our expertise in placing diverse candidates has resulted in a successful track record of placing candidates from all backgrounds into senior and middle management positions.
Shikari Group’s commitment to broad thinking and consideration of the myriad backgrounds and mindsets of professionals from diverse populations is deep. We encourage our clients to hold true to these values as well, and we also work closely with candidates as they navigate their careers to assure they are evaluated and considered fairly and equitably. Our energies toward this commitment focus on building relationships with companies and professionals with whom differences are respected and valued.
Whether we are conducting work on behalf of our clients or considering our firm’s next strategic hiring decisions, we invest a significant amount of time recognizing and fostering a commitment to diversity within our client organizations. Our practice and our continued commitment to diversity and multiculturalism centers around the belief that the world is comprised of diverse thinking, ethnic heritage, and individuality, all three of which when combined create a superior perspective on business and fuel the notion of competitive advantage.
Another factor that is critical for our external constituencies and employees to be aware is that Shikari Group’s commitment to diversity also extends beyond the traditional definition in the marketplace of ethnic diversity alone, to also include: Diversity in a professional’s industry experience and functional expertise as well as a broad representation of religious beliefs. Shikari Group has witnessed first hand many corporate successes due to diversity and fully remains committed to continuing to fuel this superior perspective.
Team
OUR TEAM
Our corporate team has been hand picked in order to build, execute, and deliver the best services in the industry. The team consists of many people from varied backgrounds bringing together varied solutions to common problems.
Please contact us to meet our dynamic team.
Relations
MEDIA RELATIONS
The Shikari Group is constantly asked to share industry leading trends and best practices.
Please contact us at interviews@shikarigroup.com to interview one of our consultants.