1. James Knight Executive
REAL ESTATE AND FINANCE RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS

2. Company
Overview
James Knight Executive is a privately owned leading recruitment
company servicing the real estate and finance markets.
We have a demonstrable track record of recruiting key professionals
across a range of disciplines throughout the UK and internationally.
Our work is focused on acting as an advisory, connecting our clients
with the highest calibre of candidates and our candidates with the most
forward thinking of clients.
We work in partnership with Banks, Investors, Fund Managers,
Surveying Practices, Developers, Landscape and Environmental
Consultancies, Architectural Design Practices, Property Agents,
Planning Consultancies, Accountancy Firms and Engineering
Consultants.
We hold high regard to the fact that our business is run with integrity,
loyalty, confidentiality, accountability, and above all best practice at all
times.
Our Permanent and Interim recruitment services include:
• Executive Search & Selection
• Database Search
• Advertised campaigns
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3. Executive
Search
DEDICATION TO
DELIVERY
Many of our clients choose James Knight Executive on an exclusive
Search and Selection basis when considering the hire of senior level staff
or those with rare skill sets due to our successful track record in identifying
professionals from untapped pools.
Executive Search and Selection is a focused and managed recruitment
process targeting a particular section of the market that will identify key
professionals within it. It guarantees choice not chance by using current
information and an understanding and analysis of potential new talent.
Each assignment is a unique & consultative process. We listen,
understand, act and provide the solution to your objectives.
The process will commence with a meeting to gauge a thorough
understanding of the strategic plan. From this we identify target companies
in the market and the relevant teams and individuals working within them.
This forms the basis of the initial long-list. The next step is to “take to
market” the detail on the position and pro-actively approach key
individuals, whereby we pre-screen them against the brief through
interview and conclude with the presentation of a shortlist of suitable
candidates.
With the majority of professionals who live and breathe the market and
work around the clock, very few find the time to trawl through press ad’s or
register with online job boards of recruitment agents. They work with us
directly in securing their next opportunity on a more personal and
professional level.
Our approach and experience is geared to recognise skills, not salary.
Skills being the measurable components of ‘talent’. We advise a client that
search is the best option not according to the salary but the strategic
definition of the role.
Search identifies and targets capability, performance and potential and is
deemed to be the most pro-active and tailored approach when recruiting
and the best way in finding top talent.
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4. Database
Search
James Knight Executive offers a database recruitment resourcing solution to
meet the requirements of our clients across the real estate and financial
services markets.
We have built up a global database of passive and non-passive candidates
whom have been generated through a number of years of recruiting within
the industry. This includes all our headhunted candidates generated from
retained Executive Search campaigns, networking events we have attended,
advertising search & selection and general word of mouth.
Working with Human Resourcing departments and as a part of our clients
PSL (preferred suppliers list) we are positioned to carry out finely tuned and
detailed search of our database which is constantly maintained and
monitored so that we are able to react quickly to an instruction by sourcing a
selection of appropriate candidates to suit clients' specifications by
accessing our market-leading database of professionals. This helps our
success rate in recruiting high calibre talent in a competitive environment.
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5. Advertised
Search
TALENT
PIPELINE
James Knight Executive provides an advertised search & selection service
utilising advertising campaigns in national papers, trade press and the
Internet. Advertising remains an important means of sourcing candidates
and expanding a network of contacts.
Adverts are often used when the boundaries for the recruitment assignment
are too broad to rely on simply an Executive Search. For example, there
may be no geographic boundaries; the client is open to a wide variety of
backgrounds to suit the role and with no preference on the sector that the
candidate may have derived from. Advertised Search and Selection can also
be a useful means of enhancing company profile and branding within the
market.
A major factor for using this service is to save our clients precious time as
national advertising will attract a high volume of applicants. It is our
responsibility to qualify and screen all applicants, interview the relevant
people and submit our recommendations as to who is genuinely suitable.
We provide the complete service from the design and placement of the
advert through to the provision of the suitable shortlist. We have an in
house Marketing Consultant who has carried out a number of advertising
campaigns on behalf of a broad range of clients with great success. Having
worked within the world of marketing for more than a decade he is best
placed at creating the perfect advert to attract talent.
Advertised search and selection is designed to attract the widest possible
audience response and is utilised in conjunction with both Database Search
and Executive Search.
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6. Interim Mgmt
Recruitment
SOLUTIONS
TO PROBLEMS
James Knight Executive is a leading interim management provider in the
provision of executive interim management staff for clients with an
immediate problem who require a short to medium term solution with long
lasting results.
We have many years experience of successfully placing interim executives
and manage an extensive pre-vetted register of interims covering most
sectors and most disciplines across the real estate and financial services
markets.
There are a number of different business situations that could result in the
need for an Interim Manager. Typically these could be situations such
as crisis management, sudden departure, illness, change
management, managing change or transition,
sabbaticals, MBOs and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and project
management. Additionally, there may be nobody internally who is suitable
for, or available to take up the position in question and interim measures
offers a solution until a permanent fixture can be made.
Our extensive interim database homes professional career minded interims
that operate through their own limited company, are suitably qualified and
have previously carried out interim management assignments.
During recent years the real estate and financial services markets have
realised that using interim management as a solution to difficult areas of
recruitment offers a cost effective and flexible form of resource. Interim
Managers are hired to cover skill gaps whereby a permanent hire may not
be desired or viable to recruit in the time scale required.
Interim professionals will have worked at senior levels covering various
disciplines and are engaged traditionally on short term contracts ranging
between 3 months to a year.
We have built a strong interim management capability and are able to
identify an appropriate interim hire in-line with your budget within a short
space of time.
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7. Talent
Assessment
“Our business relies on continuously
maximising, identifying & assessing only the
best talent within the industry”
The appointment of a candidate whose background reveals significant
shortcomings can seriously damage the reputation of a business. It is
therefore paramount that on each assignment we undertake thorough
reference checks that include:
• Talking formally to named referees
• Talking informally to unnamed referees
• Confirm academic and professional qualifications
• Competency Analysis
Our referencing is summarised and provided upon request. Full referencing
will provide a substantial insight into the candidate’s professional style,
personal behavior, strengths and weaknesses and areas of motivation.
As part of our assessment of candidates we use competency based
analysis.
With your assistance we produce a number of relevant
competency questions
that require candidate to provide real life
examples as the basis to their
answers.
This will construct a picture of relevant performance using examples
of
past experiences. Competency methods are phrased in such a way to
encourage accurate behavioral tendencies. Helping decision making
as to
whether they may fit into your organisation.
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8. Assignment KEY TO
History COMPLETION
PROBLEMSestablished lasting foundations with a host of clients in both
As a team we have
the UK and overseas. Working closely with our clients has provided us with the
ability to fully understand their requirements in greater detail and to appreciate
the person and cultural fit required for each assignment.
We have experience of recruiting graduate entries up to board level equity
Partner and CEO.
Our track record to date is that of completing assignments covering the areas
below however we continue to evolve and expanding our success.
• Fund Management
• Asset Management
• Development
• Landlord & Tenant
• Acquisitions and Investment
• Rating
• Valuation
• Land Management
• Operations Management
• Corporate Finance
• Leasing
• Facilities Management
• Project Management
• Bid Management
• Town Planning
• Building Surveying
• Property Management
• Block Management
• Research and Analysis
• Estate Management
• Master Planning and Urban Design
• Sustainability
• Landscape Architecture
• EIA
• Heritage
• Derivatives
• REIT
• Underwriter
• CAD Technician
• Rural Surveying
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9. Global
Reach
BESPOKE
INTERNATIONAL
SEARCH
We have a proven track record of managing successful international recruitment
assignments on both a permanent and interim basis across the real estate and
financial services sectors.
Once we are fully conversant with the search assignment or interim
opportunity we agree and design a bespoke recruitment strategy to
determine the most appropriate way forward, covering essential areas
such as cultural fit prerequisites and skill demands.
Our global network of contacts has been built up over many years allowing us to
make contact with relevant prospective hires in a short space of time.
Continental Europe the Americas Asia Pacific & Middle East
United Kingdom USA Abu Dhabi
Switzerland Canada Bahrain
Belgium Caribbean Dubai
Czech Republic Hong Kong
France Australia
Germany
Ireland
The Netherlands
Poland
Russia
Italy
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10. James Knight Executive Limited
The Priory, Syresham Gardens,
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 3LB
Telephone +44(0) 01444 255 125
Search@JamesKnightExec.co.uk
www.jamesknightexec.co.uk
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