Summit Search and Selection Ltd is a company which strongly believes that clients are demanding, quite rightly, more than ever from their consultants. In a constantly shifting world where the demand for talent is fierce, more companies are seeking high calibre executives with the potential, be it latent or well developed, to lead and drive their businesses forward. These executives will, in an ideal world, possess strong leadership, commercial bite, outstanding inter-personal skills (both up and down), a lively enquiring mind, the ability to instil passion in others, empathy, excellent listening skills, intellectual rigour and so the list goes on.
In a word these skills can be summarised as 'soft' skills; those indefinable human skills that set people apart; that just make them a little special. These are the skills that all companies are looking for. They, more often than not, are the skills that create harmony, unity, sense of belonging and a far more motivated and successful work force be it local or international. At Summit the commitment to exploring and assessing these “soft” skills is palpable. We believe that clients want us (as one client said) 'to really get under the skin' of potential employees.
Emotional Intelligence is what develops the leaders of today and results in the Chief Executives of tomorrow. At whatever level of an organisation an employee works, he or she needs to be sensitive to those around them whether they be members of their immediate team or employees that they have responsibility for on a day to day basis.
To be an effective leader a person needs to have finely honed 'soft' skills; these cannot be found by merely scanning a physical CV. The only way that these skills can be assessed is through the skills of the interviewer. More and more, Competency Based Interviewing is required to 'drill down' on a candidate's suitability for a specific role. Additional questioning is also required to move candidates out of their 'comfort zones'. Once removed from the relative comfort (in our opinion) of a purely biographical interview, a far more realistic psychometric profile becomes apparent. This is where Summit considers itself different from other Search firms and this is where significant value added is derived for the hiring client. Whether we are retained to hire for a client in London, Dubai, Shanghai or Mumbai these human competencies remain constant.
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