Clients

"Working in Partnership to Create Value"

At Essential Selection Partnership (ESP) we strive to work in partnership with our clients as your trusted advisors. Our goal is to add considerable value to your business through securing you the best talent from the global candidate pool. We perform this service in a timely manner, whilst containing your costs and reducing your risk through the entire hiring process.

Some distinguishing characteristics you will find when engaging with ESP include:

Experience

When partnering with ESP you will be dealing directly with highly experienced recruitment professionals. We have over 20 years of combined experience recruiting into financial services and property companies. Through the course of this experience we have placed over 450 positions. This proven experience reduces your risk through the hiring process, and also allows you to tap into our vast knowledge of the “total candidate universe” within your relevant sector.

Specialisation

ESP is a highly specialised search and recruitment firm - we do not try to be all things to all people. We focus on recruiting executive finance and accounting professionals into the financial services and property sectors. This concentrated approach has allowed us to develop deep and sophisticated market knowledge, keep abreast of industry developments and most importantly, it means we are able to stay fully tuned in to the pool of talent within these sectors. It also enables us to thoroughly understand the roles we recruit for, meaning we can target suitable candidates quickly and accurately.

ESP's Research Capability

At ESP our aim is to give you instant access to a highly qualified pool of standout candidates with relevant industry backgrounds. We achieve this by underpinning our consulting business with a world class research offering. Through combining cutting edge technology, market intelligence and sophisticated market mapping and analysis we have created a comprehensive database of talent that is tailored specifically to the Financial Services and Property sectors. This ensures that as our client, you access the best possible candidates in the shortest possible time frame.

Local AND International Candidate Reach

Through our research capability and the duration of time we have spent in the market, ESP has gained an unrivalled knowledge of the local candidate pool within the financial services and property sectors and also the Big 4 professional services firms. However, in today's market we are finding that our clients are now demanding candidates with increasingly specialised skills and experience and that the Sydney market is talent short in many of these areas. When you partner with ESP you will be tapping into our local and global networks which is crucial when recruiting hard to fill or specialised roles. We have a strong focus on offshore candidate sourcing, in particular from the UK, Ireland and Asia through direct networks and strategic alliances.

Superior Selection

By combining our experience, specialisation, research capability and candidate reach we are able to employ superior selection processes and deliver highly targeted shortlists quickly. Typically we will aim to put a maximum of 3 candidates on any shortlist to you and we have a very high success ratio of resumes sent to placement. We do the hard work for you to minimise the time you spend sifting through irrelevant resumes and interviewing unsuitable candidates. This selection process has also resulted in a 0% fallout of placement rate in the last 5 years of our experience.

Transparency

Our aim is to partner with our clients over the long term as your trusted advisors. In addition to consistent delivery, we achieve this through acting in a completely transparent manner at every stage of the process. We pride ourselves on our ethics, honesty and integrity. At ESP our reputation is the very bedrock of our business.

Agility

ESP adopts a highly agile business model. We aim to partner with clients whom we feel share our values and vision. We focus on developing deep relationships with only a selection of client companies in our sectors and this focus allows us to understand these businesses in depth. This selective approach is critical to our business model as it allows us ethical access to a large pool of candidates in non-client companies.