Background: an automotive equipment manufacturer seeks to develop a team of experts in very specific fields. The challenge is to include some hard-to-find skills that will foster innovation but also to create a career development ladder in order retain the best talent.
To do this, our client wants to take on some experienced profiles matching the highest level of their in-house experts, whose expertise will be recognised at all the group’s international sites and who will be known as ‘Master Experts’.
Recruitment challenges: the profiles being sought are Materials Experts (in high-speed steels, used to reduce the weight of cars) and Production Process Automation Experts to reduce manufacturing lead times or deliver industrial performance.
These are obviously very rare profiles but potential candidates are often more motivated by the intellectual side than the financial offering.
Added value provided by the firm/Skills used: we found experts who were teaching in the laboratories of engineering institutes. They were interested in working in more practical applications but did not want to lose their teaching positions. We managed to build up enough trust in the three-way relationship between the client, the candidates and ourselves to set up a part-time working relationship with the company.
Result: this solution enabled our client to show that it had Master Experts working in house, encouraging others to join. The prestige of these individuals internationally and within their institutions strengthened the employer’s brand.