Recruitment
Specialist Finance, HR and Executive recruitment
Diving deeper for the business-critical talent you need
Based in the Black Country, Seymour John's West Midlands' team is a specialist Finance, HR and Executive recruitment consultancy, supporting businesses across the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Built over many years, our niche specialisms and sustained regional focus means we leverage extensive talent networks to secure the business-critical talent organisations need to succeed in today's complex and challenging operating environments.
An advert-only approach limits a recruitment search to those who are actively looking. Recent research by LinkedIn suggests that is only 11% of the workforce. Where a niche, specialist recruitment consultancy has the advantage is we can delve into a deep pool of passive talent, enabling us to reach 70 – 75% of the workforce.
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Case study
Finance professionals aren't looking
Search for a Finance Controller:
Why the best passive candidates only respond
to niche sector specialist consultancies and
peer-to-peer referrals — not to cold outreach.
A proven talent ally
If an organisation is only as good as its people – and with the best people being up to eight times more productive than their ‘average’ peers – it is little wonder that competition for the best talent is fierce. To give them a competitive advantage, successful companies work with specialist talent allies to ensure they always have the people they need when they need them.
Interim talent solutions
In times of transition, organisations need a range of flexible talent options. Whether it is expertise to fill a knowledge gap, a Finance team to usher in change or an interim HR leader to maintain business as usual while you recruit for a permanent role, we secure the talent you need, when you need it.
Sophisticated profiling support
When getting it wrong can costs as much as three times the role's annual salary, our sophisticated profiling and psychometric assessment tools help you get it right first time. Offering accurate and predictive insight into a candidate's personality, emotional intelligence and interpersonal style, we use them to ensure a cultural as well as technical-capabilities-base fit.
Case studies
Recruitment
Search for a Head of Finance
In a competitive candidate market, businesses sometimes need a well-networked, specialist, regionally focused talent ally to give them the inside track to the best candidates in their area.
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Recruitment
Search for the successor to a retiring FD
With extensive networks built over many years, often our most successful senior hires are headhunted from proven passive talent we already know and trust.
Case studies
Recruitment
An external talent ally for hard-to-fill roles
Sourcing high-calibre finance and HR professionals with FMCG and manufacturing backgrounds, was proving a challenge for our client, especially for its Herefordshire-located site.
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Recruitment
Search for a Finance Business Partner
Future-facing, the Finance Business Partner role has taken on increasing significance in helping organisations plan for growth.
I view Simon Lowe as an integral, trusted recruitment partner. He understands our requirements and delivers time and time again. He is refreshingly honest, consultative and so easy to work with.
Mike Ryall, CFO, Waterlogic
Further insights
Recruitment, Case Study
Team recruitment campaign for a new Shared Services Centre
In a competitive candidate market, businesses need a proven talent ally with extensive networks to ensure they can attract the right people, as and when they’re needed – especially when recruiting for multiple roles.
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Financial Controller needed urgently
When, after three months, multiple recruitment consultancies had failed to find any, Seymour John secured four suitable candidates within two weeks of starting our exclusive search for a Financial Controller.
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Search for an online Sales & Marketing Director
Selling predominantly through online channels, our client needed an ecommerce expert, who understood their niche market, to lead the next phase of their development.
MoreWe know what great looks like
Whether through permanent and interim recruitment or project consultancy and solution delivery, we are people experts who work with expert people to support, develop, and guide our clients’ organisations.
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