Core ServicesPermanent RecruitmentLoiren consultants have a very personal and unique approach to identifying, retaining and placing the best candidates for our clients requirements. Our consultants utilise wide personal networks, built up over many years, to identify not just suitable candidates, but the best candidates.

This approach has allowed Lorien to build a reputation for delivering exceptional service to both clients and candidates, meaning they trust us and like to stay in touch. We know when they’re thinking of hiring, moving on themselves, or just considering their options. And we can put that confidential knowledge to good use in meeting their needs.

We offer: • Permanent Hires – contingent network search

• Managed Services – from Direct Sourcing for specific projects to complete recruitment process outsourcing

• Executive Search – we know the people who’d be right for the role, even if they’re not actively looking

• Campaign Recruitment – utilising the power of brand positioning to recruit for individual campaigns or recruitment drives.

Contract RecruitmentContractors are expected to make a difference on day one. No induction, no training, just, “there’s the challenge, please get on with it”. To ensure all our contractors are up to the mark we require them to complete an online technical skills assessment to ensure suitability and competence.

We track technical contractors across all vertical disciplines so we’re confident we can match any requirement your business may require.

We offer:• Contract Resource - across all technical disciplines

• Interim Recruitment – strategic hires for senior roles up to and including director-level

• Managed Services – improved cost effeciences through single point of contact and management of an effective supplier base

We look after our contractors through our contractor care team. They offer support and advice to first-timers and old hands. Everything from help with forming a limited company to access to the best training.

Recruitment Process OutsourcingLorien’s recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) gives you a customer focused service that continually improves the cost, quality and capability of your resourcing function.

We work closely with you, taking full responsibility for every stage of the recruitment process to help improve and streamline appropriate, successful and proactive recruitment processes. We supply full management information throughout the lifecycle of your recruitment campaigns giving increased transparency on areas such as time to hire and cost. Our flexible approach that means we can tailor recruitment techniques to the needs of the business.

As part of our RPO offering we:

• Analyse where you are now and where you ought to be in terms of recruitment best practice through our Discovery Audit

• Implement the people, processes and technology within your organisation to streamline your recruitment function

• Manage the second-tier recruitment companies on your behalf, from quality of delivery to commission rates and performance reporting and measurement

• Recruit directly using your brand as the springboard to attract talented people to work for your organisation.

What Makes Lorien Different?Lorien believes a combination of the following attributes gives us a strong competitive advantage:

• We have a low turnover of staff, and longevity of our account teams and our client relationships has been essential to building market share.

• A high level of expertise within our account teams, consistency in managing and delivering against our clients’ requirements.

• We focus on doing all of the basic recruitment activities very well with experienced, well-motivated and appropriately rewarded staff.

• Over 75% of our business portfolio consists of large corporate clients, which ensures that our delivery teams are geared around providing high quality services within highly competitive commercial frameworks.

• Our current ratio of Vacancies: Placements is 2.43:1 across our account portfolio where the expectation of our clients would be 5:1

• In exceptional cases Lorien can demonstrate market share of 35% within a PSL of 21 suppliers further reinforcing this point.

• We differentiate ourselves by the values of our people and the passion web demonstrate in delivery of our services on a daily basis.

What do our clients say?

“Providing a great service to our customers is our number one priority and we understand that this is delivered by our people and not just by whizzy technology. It’s our people who set us apart - they understand our customers’ environments and work with colleagues to deliver what our customers want, in the way they want it. This means our recruitment process is key to identifying great people to join our company.

The key deliverable within this contract was the supply of superior candidates across all areas of the business. This has been achieved through the implementation of technology solutions to aid best practice recruitment procedures, development and organisation of talent management strategies and full vendor management. Each stage of this implementation has been driven and fully supported by our on-site team from Lorien.

We’re putting all our energy into ensuring our people can do their jobs well; we’re creating a company where people aspire to be and where colleagues love to work.”

HR Director, Cable&Wireless Worldwide

“In March 2008 Lorien were awarded PSL status and joined one other supplier in delivering permanent and contract resource across all of our divisions. In that time the dedicated account team have placed in excess of 200 individuals with us. They have achieved this through the time they have taken to understand our business and processes and through their own recruitment expertise.

In light of this exceptional performance Lorien have twice been awarded Fujitsu Gold Supplier status – recognising them throughout our organisation as a supplier who help us achieve our own objectives through delivering an excellent service.”Senior Sourcing Manager, Fujitsu