Where a position is particularly senior or niche, or budget uncertainties over commitment to a delivery schedule arise, the assignment may take up to 12 weeks and require substantially more time and research costs.
On these occasions, ProClinical requires a retained fee -25% of the total recruitment fee — before starting work. This payment puts a bigger onus of responsibility on ProClinical to deliver, but also helps us to share a proportion of the risk with the client.
For the client, the benefit of paying this up-front fee:
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It retains (or prioritises) the services of the recruitment team to focus exclusively on the assignment in hand.
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It helps to justify a greater investment of resources towards filling the position, such as advertising or the appointment of a dedicated research team.
An example of a retained project might be:
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to appoint a Director;
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to install a whole new team / department; or
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to fill a role where contingency recruitment has failed and more attention is required.
After the initial 25% retained fee, a further 25% is chargeable upon agreement of 3-5 candidates for interview. The final 50% is only due upon successful placement of the candidate.
We guarantee a longer rebate period of 24 weeks, rather than 12 weeks. This means that if the successful candidate leaves his / her position for any reason (other than redundancy) within the first 6 months of employment, we will run the entire recruitment process again for free. For us, a Search Project is an exclusive and high-priority project performed in partnership with a client.
For more information about search projects, call us on 0800 988 4437 or
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