Legal

Key features:

• Time to hire: 3-4 weeks including search, shortlisting, interviews and offer management

• Timelines agreed at commencement

• Thorough brief taken – agree on key competencies and traits required

• Dedicated, experienced consultant to manage the entire search

• Our dedicated regional research Center of Excellence (COE) use innovative, customised search methods to produce a targeted market map

• All candidates met with (in person or via VC) to assess key competencies and cultural/team fit prior to introduction

• Interviews arranged & offer process managed

• Flexible costing and billing structure

Why you’ll love it:

• Preferred access to active and passive candidate pools

• Search for talent whilst remaining discreet and even anonymous – ideal for sensitive searches

• Guaranteed to secure your hire

• Deal with one single point of contact

• All candidates assessed and benchmarked against the same competencies by the same consultant

• Agreed timelines enable you plan effectively

• You brand is protected with one consistent, compelling message going to market

• Increased employer brand awareness – we’ll be your brand ambassadors

Key features:

• Our dedicated regional research Center of Excellence (COE) use innovative, customized search methods to objectively produce a targeted market map

• Quick and valuable market intel on high calibre talent and competitors across the region

• Proactively identify top talent in the market for current and/or future recruitment needs

• Fully bespoke from a region, job type and seniority perspective

Why you’ll love it:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of your market positioning

• Increase awareness of your employer brand to help you stand out from the crowd

• Benchmark your reward strategy and team structure against the most effective in the market

• Gives you the ability to rapidly ramp up resources

• Your experience will be interactive – we’ll empower you and engage candidates towards your brand

​Key features:

• Time to hire: 2-4 weeks including search, shortlisting, interviews and offer management

• Pre-agreed timeline to hire

• Dedicated resourcing by one or two specialist recruiters

• High-calibre talent sourced using innovative, customised search methods

• Quick shortlists: three competitive CVs within 48 hours

• Interviews & offer process managed

Why you’ll love it:

• Quick and easy access to engaged and active talent

• Deal with one single point of contact

• All candidates assessed and benchmarked against the same competencies by the same specialist consultant

• Pre-agreed timelines enable you to plan effectively

• You brand is protected with one consistent, compelling message going to market

• Increased employer brand awareness – we’ll be your brand ambassadors

• Reduced time to hire

• Less time spent reviewing resumes and interviewing

Our in-house design studio develops bespoke co-branded advertising campaigns to raise awareness of your search within the right networks. These campaigns, which can consist of individual adverts or an end-to-end multi-media campaign across several weeks, attract valuable and hard-to-find talent.

Advertising alone cannot be relied upon to provide the best shortlist of candidates. We use a dual-sourcing approach that combines advertising with headhunting to ensure full coverage of the market and increase our chance of securing the best candidates.

We'll run an advertising campaign and screen all applicants, whilst headhunting in the background. All relevant candidates who respond to advertising or who are generated through headhunting will be invited to meet our experienced consultants to discuss the role in more detail. We’ll assess their commitment to the role and screen them against specific criteria, both in terms of experience and personality.

Key features:

• Dedicated marketing expertise to represent your brand in a consistent and impactful way

• Adverts will feature across multiple platforms including relevant Job Boards, LinkedIn, Email and other social media platforms

• Engage with passive candidates who are keen to understand more about the opportunity

• Fully vetted shortlist of the most suitable candidates

• Flexible pricing solutions to meet your needs

Why you’ll love it:

• Tap into a wider talent pool across multiple marketing channels

• Raise your brand profile in the market

• Increase job response rates with the right candidates

• Adds weighting to the overall search campaign, to help you fill roles much faster

• Flexible pricing: more cost-effective than advertising your own roles

Key features:

• We can migrate an existing direct workforce to our payroll solution in just 28 days

• Comprehensive background and education checks as standard on all incoming contractors

• Contractors receive seamless on-boarding and enjoy the financial security that comes from contracting through a PLC

• Easy-to-use online systems for screening, timesheets and contract management

• Competitive prices

Why you’ll love it:

• Mitigated risk - contractors are insured under Hydrogen’s group policy

• We ensure contractors are fully compliant and cleared to be on site across Australia

• Reduced on-boarding time: your contractors receive a more positive, consistent experience

• You receive just one monthly, consolidated invoice for your entire directly hired contractor workforce

• We’ll advise on potential cost savings you can make on your contractor workforce

​Key features:

• We conduct a thorough research of your company brand and competitor positioning – hiring strategy aligned to your employer brand

• Dedicated recruiter imbedded into your business whilst also staying fully connected to the Hydrogen Group ecosystem

• Pre-defined SLAs

• Dedicated account management team and regular reviews

• Flexible billing structure

Why you’ll love it:

• Save costs, without compromising on quality

• We’ll be a true brand ambassador and extension of your internal HR/TA team

• Decreased time to hire – we’ll have a deeper understanding of your business

• Gain greater market insight to inform your talent management strategy

• Access to a wider pool of talent

Key features:

• Access to our global community of contractors with cutting edge expertise

• Receive relevant CVs within just 48 hours

• On average, our contractors are onboarded in just nine days and extended seven times, with the average tenure being 22 months

• All contractors are pre-screened and vetted as requested

• An experienced account team for the project duration and a dedicated account manager to provide a single point of contact

• Flexible pricing options to suit your needs: our standard rate card provides a clear and transparent pricing structure

Why you’ll love it:

• Ability to rapidly ramp up and scale down resources as required

• Cost-efficient way to run projects without compromising on quality

• Full support to resource your projects across multiple verticals and geographic locations

• Minimal overall impact to your hiring manager community and current resources

• We can onboard the best talent quickly, speeding up your delivery and return on investment

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​Key features:

• A dedicated team to manage your whole event, from the planning phase through to getting the right talent to attend and organising an appropriate venue

• Events can be as formal or informal as you like, whilst putting a strong brand message into the market

• Post event report including lists of all candidates who registered, attended and engaged with your brand

Why you’ll love it:

• Meet new talent, strengthen relationships and market your services

• A formative and personal way to network with prospective hires

• Gives you an edge on your competitors

Key features:

• We source and secure high calibre talent using innovative, customised search methods

• On-off flexibility to suit your needs

• We can deliver a “full package” from resourcing high-quality candidate to contactor care and compliance

• Ongoing brand awareness campaigns via our headhunting schemes

• Weekly or bi-weekly meetings to discuss progress, candidates, and feedback

Why you’ll love it:

• We can accommodate the differing needs of your business over time

• Long term support and advice on your talent management strategy

• Easier to compare the quality of candidates across the market, so you can make more informed decisions

• Option to request a search for a specific role or to be kept regularly informed of relevant people becoming available in your market

• No commitment to hire unless you really like a candidate

You maintain full visibility, flexibility and control of a delivery strategy that is aligned to your business requirements. This solution is more cost effective compared to bigger consultancies because we have direct access to the talent.

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Key features:

• Managed services: fixed price, based on time and materials

• Outcome based solutions: based on achieving set outcomes, milestones or deliverables

• Performance based services: based on performance of the workforce

• A pool of trusted advisors (subject matter experts) to optimise every part of the project

• Dedicated project delivery team

• On-going administration and compliance management

• Regular progress review meetings

• Project off-boarding & IP transfer

Why you’ll love it:

• Direct access to the talent market meaning no in-direct white labelled resources, saving you critical project budget – average savings of 20% against leading consultancies

• A completely personalised solution for your unique needs

• A scalable solution that's swift to implement, so you can ramp up and down quickly

• Guaranteed knowledge transfers

• On-site dedicated service and programme management led by industry leading specialists

• Direct access to the best talent in the market, built up over 20 years, delivery you with experience talent every time

Key features:

• Rather than interviewing our candidate, they will start work on Monday morning with 1-day notice and trial on the job

• If you like them and want to hire, the contract is drawn up for your desired length

• If the candidate is unsuccessful, they do not return the next day and you are not charged

Why you’ll love it:

• Save hours of time interviewing candidates

• Zero risk – no fee if candidate is unsuccessful

• Improved interview process – practical & live project tasks completed

• Find better fit candidates and improve your staff retention rates

Key features:

• One specialist point of contact at Hydrogen

• Using innovative, customised search methods, we source and secure the market’s best talent

• Searches conducted by a consultant and dedicated research team, to ensure a thorough search and all relevant candidates in the market are spoken to

• Weekly updates on the search

• Flexible rates depending on the role requirements

Why you’ll love it:

• Save time having to manage different agencies and numerous points of contact

• More control over your brand message in the market as candidates don’t get approached multiple times for the same role

• Receive better quality candidates for the role, as we’re not simply in a race to find the best people, which is often detrimental to the thoroughness and quality of a search

• More cost effective than a non-exclusive solution

The challenge:

Our client, an international law firm, was struggling to fill a particularly difficult role – they were not receiving the quality level of applicants they required. Together, we decided they needed to raise their employer brand profile to reach as large an audience as possible. The downside of doing this would be risking unmanageable numbers of responses, so we were engaged to manage the process and screen the applicants before interviews.

Our solution:

We talked at length with the client about the demographic they were looking to attract, which informed the decision as to where we would advertise the role. We also evaluated previous Hydrogen campaign strategies to help decide which direction would be most effective. We then worked with our in-house marketing team to develop a series of glossy, impactful adverts that reflected the client’s brand.

The client was able to take advantage of our preferential rates and we combined the advertising with a proactive headhunt search. All candidates were fully screened by us before interview to make the recruitment process as smooth as possible.

The outcome:

• We filed the role ahead of schedule

• We built a pipeline of potential candidates for the future.

• The client employed this method several times going forward with tricky roles.

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The challenge:

Our client, a Magic Circle firm, was looking for a Senior Associate or Counsel in Projects/Project Finance to replace someone after 10 years’ service who had a well embedded Middle East practice. After getting nowhere with a number of suppliers, Hydrogen was asked to undertake a mapping project to target all lawyers at 4-10 PQE in the Middle East region at the top international firms with Projects/Project Finance or general banking with projects experience.

Our solution:

With a database of over 111,000 lawyers and over 12 years’ experience in the Middle East, our digital research team map over 12,000 candidates each year. Able to provide resourcing at senior consultant, researcher and digital researcher level, we agreed a list of target firms and mapped the entire market within two days, detailing how many relevant lawyers at each level of PQE were in the region. This meant the firm could choose where to headhunt and where they may need to be more flexible.

The outcome:

• The firm was able to target specific individuals they wanted to meet, and we were able to provide them with immediate feedback on candidate interest.

• They realised that the best individual may not be in the UAE, so we also utilised our networks from the UK, Europe and Asia.

• The client secured the right candidate that was identified via our mapping project.

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Our client is a top international law firm and a member of the UK’s Magic Circle of leading law firms. We have worked closely with them for over 17 years and have placed over 100 lawyers across their many global locations.

Due to our long-standing relationship, our team understands their unique employer brand and the types of individuals they look to hire.

The challenge:

We were invited to pitch for a large-scale hiring project in their Banking team. They were looking for candidates with 1 – 3 PQE, with a strong experience in Australia or New Zealand markets. Crucially, we also needed to ensure the candidates would be a good cultural fit for this firm and could work well together as a team.

We put forward an innovative and energetic proposal that gave the client confidence in our ability to deliver and they decided to partner with us.

Our solution:

Our proposal was a five-stage approach running over the course of five weeks. First, we mapped the market to identify 400 relevant candidates. We ran a high-profile branded advertising campaign, then moved into a headhunting phase, contacting every candidate in under three weeks. In week four, we flew to Australia to conduct initial interviews, then finally presented the partners with a shortlist as scheduled.

The outcome:

• We completed the hiring project making 10 successful placements within 8 weeks.

• The client was very pleased with the results, meeting a number of high-calibre candidates throughout this project.

• Despite the tight timescale and challenges with the time difference, a dedicated project team of six specialists made sure it ran smoothly.

"Our experience of working with Hydrogen for our recent Australia and New Zealand recruitment campaign was nothing short of fantastic. They worked tirelessly for us throughout the course of the project and represented us with energy and enthusiasm at all stages. We are delighted with the talent they’ve introduced to our network and the relationships we’ve developed with them as a result of this campaign!"

HR Manager at Magic Circle firm

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