Our two directors Stephanie Bain & Paul Swettenham have a combined experience of 50 years recruitment experience and have helped Christchurch & South island organisations find, assess and retain their leaders & senior management teams. Two trusted, experienced HR leaders sharing a background in psychology with strong business experience of recruiting great talent with a strong understanding of privacy and confidentiality
We’re always happy to meet up in person and understand your objectives, work out a plan, strategy and get great outcomes for you.
Retained Executive Search & Selection?
For more complex & targeted assignments:
Retain Sunstone to advertise / network / search candidates - 1/3 fee up front
Sunstone produces short-list of strongly matched candidates for interview - 1/3 fee on short-list
Appointment of candidate - 1/3 final fee on start date
On-boarding & after placement care
Contingent Executive Search & Selection?
For a ‘go-to’ market assignment with fee % of salary:
Sunstone to advertise & network candidates
Sunstone produces short-list of strongly matched candidates for interview
Appointment of candidate
On-boarding & after placement care
To discuss your executive search needs Call Paul today on: 021 532 008
What other executive capabilities does Sunstone offer?
Do you conduct Psychometric Assessments?
We're ready to recommend the right tools for selection or executive team analysis. Often it's hard to identify / assess the management skill set - psyc testing can often ascertain the key competencies within your interviewing process as one part of the puzzle.
We can also use tools to conduct team reviews, to understand strengths & weaknesses, differences in style & approaches to help individuals understand each others ways of working better which means developing more capable and highly functioning teams.
Do you offer Business Coaching & Career Advice?
Need some business coaching on leading your teams? We're here to lend an ear and give you sound advice, realistic feedback and help you with personal confidence & motivation. We help business executives get the best out of them and thus their teams. Gain practical learnings, confidence in different and difficult situations to shape & influence great outcomes to progress your career and business.
What about Remuneration / Business Advisory?
Need to work out if your staff member is being remunerated correctly? Want some advice on remuneration structures ie OTEs, commission/bonus structures, over-time, shift-work allowances, on-call structures and non-monetary ideas to incentivise staff? We can advise you on current market conditions & trends as we are 'knowledge workers' immersed in the current market.
Need an independent consultant for internal appointments to ensure an impartial, legally defensible, and objective internal selection process?
Talent succession planning?
Want to understand who your rockstars and poor performers are in a scientific, data driven way?
Get some practical advice and tools to do the job properly to ascertain pay rilses and any strructural changes needed to plan positive future growth
Need an independent consultant for internal appointments to ensure an impartial, legally defensible, and objective internal selection process?
How about Multiple Placement Projects / Rebuilding & developing new teams?
We thrive on a challenge and have delivered many multiple recruitment assignments with tight time pressures. Whether you're re-building a team or experiencing rapid growth we're here to get the goods, build your culture and ensure you hit your targets and goals
Do you help with Outplacement Services?
Having to reduce staff and re-structure a team or department? We can be called into manage this delicate process or consult with staff being out placed to provide career advice, current market knowledge, job search & selection tactics with a dignified personal approach.
Talent Management Services?
We have a simple approach to People & Culture Consulting:
Work through problem
Agree action plan
Research, advise, provide solution
Facilitate, execute, support
We're happy to meet up, get a feel for your team & organisation - understand the specifics of your issues and solve your problems for you.
We work with start-ups to large organisations and everything in between.
You may need help to facilitate cultural change, engagement or process improvement and enhancement.
You may just require an experienced outsourced People & Culture partner with a steady pair of hands to tidy up some documentation or run over your new People & Culture policies with a fine tooth comb to ensure they're 100% correct.
Or as a start-up to produce a basic People & Culture framework (documentation / process) for on-boarding new hires.
We can meet you off site to ensure confidentiality or on the flip side come in to meet your team and the key players to further drill down and discover key issues or identifiers that may help us solve your problem or facilitate your situation in the best possible way.
We're here to help support you as a partner to facilitate business change and achieve your required goals and outcomes.
How do you go about it?
We offer a range of People & Culture services from extra support when you're totally 'snowed under' to more complex cultural change facilitation.
What you might NEED?
A confidential sounding board
Strategic advice
A hand with problem solving of complex people situations
A blueprint on how to plan your workforce and retain your best talent
How to keep your people engaged in your company
Help setting your remuneration and benefits
A how to guide on managing your people and their performance, whether they're 'stars' or you have challenges
Help screening CVs or writing job descriptions
A full suite of People & Culture policies, either developed, or reviewed to ensure your company is set up for growth
Succession planning – making sure your star performers have a career path that keeps them challenged
Facilitation
Strategic plan development
Implementing a new hiring/recruitment/on-boarding process
Providing facilitation for cultural change
Specific support to manage a poor performer
HR process review and best practice advice
To discuss your People & Culture needs Call Steph today on: 021 313 993