 | It’s great to be able to look back over the time that Ten HR has been trading and reflect on the changes in the fenestration industry. For over sixteen years now we have been sourcing high calibre personnel in all sectors and all levels of the industry, and take great pride in the fact that we have a number of clients that use our services exclusively for all their needs. |
It’s great to be able to look back over the time that Ten HR has been trading and reflect
on the changes in the fenestration industry.
For over sixteen years now we have been sourcing high calibre personnel in all sectors and all levels of the industry, and take great pride in the fact that we have a number of clients that use our services exclusively for all their needs.
It’s very interesting to see that our business has evolved through the ability to take time in completing assignments effectively without rushing the employment process. I am not suggesting that we don’t act with haste when necessary, as when it’s needed we do. If we can establish a brief that is acceptable in order to attract the right candidate then we have proven time and time again that a position can be filled with very little fuss and time wasted.
This really is due to knowledge of the industry we work in that helps us get the right results, know how, networking and connecting with character, character that fits a business and its methods, knowing that a particular person will be the right fit. Some of our clients now know that we understand their business intimately, we know the processes and people that work for them, and we can put forward the right candidates when they present themselves, even without a brief.
It leads to great long-term working partnerships, where Ten HR can be trusted to understand in confidence the plans of their clients and in turn play a significant part in helping them grow. A company is only as good as the people it employs!
We made a conscious decision not to be a “numbers” agency a few years ago and are so pleased to have stuck to this. Operating with minimal overheads it allows us to take time in getting it right, and we truly do not need business that is not attractive to both us and the client. The client can benefit greatly on the experiences we have had when recruiting for a given position, we have done it before on many occasions!
Once a client experiences how we operate then there is an opportunity to trust and develop a working partnership with us knowing that their success and growth leads to our success also. In addition to this we have got to a point where we can offer exclusivity to a client in a given sector, not working with any of their competitors. This can offer significant advantage when recruiting quality personnel, especially in sales or senior management – We believe this is unique.
We have over the last four years restructured five businesses from the appointment of a new MD going on to senior management changes, quite often advising in taking out middle management structures and appointing or restructuring the sales & marketing teams, and other departments.
When we get involved in restructure, we are only offering our advice, we have the opportunity to look at many businesses and can offer different ways of running departments, this can differ greatly from one company to another, dependant on the sectors they operate in.
What has become very apparent to Ten HR though is that companies that are successful, sometimes need to stop, take a look at their business and check to make sure they are still going in the right direction, this may sound simple, and it really is!
It is amazing how often we come across businesses that have been trading for maybe ten years plus that are still doing today what they did when they started, but on a larger scale, simply because it was right then and so it is assumed that it must be right now?
This is not business science, this is not difficult, so stop and take a look at what you are doing.
* Do you need daily departmental meetings because that’s what you’ve always done?
* Do you need KPi’s to measure every single process because that’s what you read and that’s what everyone does, isn’t it?
* Do you need more factory floor operatives or are you simply inefficient and can’t see it because you manufacture the same way today as you did 8 years ago?
* Is your transport department running efficiently, or could there be a far more cost effective way of delivering products?
* Do you need another sales person, or do you have too many, how good is your sales team?
* Are you really getting the best from your management team, or are they light on responsibility?
* Are you maximising sales potential with existing customers, or are you simply chasing too much business?
Maybe, just maybe, you have got it all right and no improvements can be made, however I would suggest that is probably not the case.
Our clients very often take inventory on their business and they remain profitable and on track, also very often they don’t need to recruit and use our services, but most importantly because they take regular inventory, the bottom line profits get healthier, not just through generating greater sales but through running a leaner, fitter and more streamlined business.
STOP, step back and look!
on the changes in the fenestration industry.
For over sixteen years now we have been sourcing high calibre personnel in all sectors and all levels of the industry, and take great pride in the fact that we have a number of clients that use our services exclusively for all their needs.
It’s very interesting to see that our business has evolved through the ability to take time in completing assignments effectively without rushing the employment process. I am not suggesting that we don’t act with haste when necessary, as when it’s needed we do. If we can establish a brief that is acceptable in order to attract the right candidate then we have proven time and time again that a position can be filled with very little fuss and time wasted.
This really is due to knowledge of the industry we work in that helps us get the right results, know how, networking and connecting with character, character that fits a business and its methods, knowing that a particular person will be the right fit. Some of our clients now know that we understand their business intimately, we know the processes and people that work for them, and we can put forward the right candidates when they present themselves, even without a brief.
It leads to great long-term working partnerships, where Ten HR can be trusted to understand in confidence the plans of their clients and in turn play a significant part in helping them grow. A company is only as good as the people it employs!
We made a conscious decision not to be a “numbers” agency a few years ago and are so pleased to have stuck to this. Operating with minimal overheads it allows us to take time in getting it right, and we truly do not need business that is not attractive to both us and the client. The client can benefit greatly on the experiences we have had when recruiting for a given position, we have done it before on many occasions!
Once a client experiences how we operate then there is an opportunity to trust and develop a working partnership with us knowing that their success and growth leads to our success also. In addition to this we have got to a point where we can offer exclusivity to a client in a given sector, not working with any of their competitors. This can offer significant advantage when recruiting quality personnel, especially in sales or senior management – We believe this is unique.
We have over the last four years restructured five businesses from the appointment of a new MD going on to senior management changes, quite often advising in taking out middle management structures and appointing or restructuring the sales & marketing teams, and other departments.
When we get involved in restructure, we are only offering our advice, we have the opportunity to look at many businesses and can offer different ways of running departments, this can differ greatly from one company to another, dependant on the sectors they operate in.
What has become very apparent to Ten HR though is that companies that are successful, sometimes need to stop, take a look at their business and check to make sure they are still going in the right direction, this may sound simple, and it really is!
It is amazing how often we come across businesses that have been trading for maybe ten years plus that are still doing today what they did when they started, but on a larger scale, simply because it was right then and so it is assumed that it must be right now?
This is not business science, this is not difficult, so stop and take a look at what you are doing.
* Do you need daily departmental meetings because that’s what you’ve always done?
* Do you need KPi’s to measure every single process because that’s what you read and that’s what everyone does, isn’t it?
* Do you need more factory floor operatives or are you simply inefficient and can’t see it because you manufacture the same way today as you did 8 years ago?
* Is your transport department running efficiently, or could there be a far more cost effective way of delivering products?
* Do you need another sales person, or do you have too many, how good is your sales team?
* Are you really getting the best from your management team, or are they light on responsibility?
* Are you maximising sales potential with existing customers, or are you simply chasing too much business?
Maybe, just maybe, you have got it all right and no improvements can be made, however I would suggest that is probably not the case.
Our clients very often take inventory on their business and they remain profitable and on track, also very often they don’t need to recruit and use our services, but most importantly because they take regular inventory, the bottom line profits get healthier, not just through generating greater sales but through running a leaner, fitter and more streamlined business.
STOP, step back and look!
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