Refreshingly Different Recruitment

Whether its working with pharmaceutical, CRO and biotech organisations covering Clinical Research,

Regulatory Affairs, Biometrics, Pharmacovigilance, and Medical Affairs; supporting blue-chip

ERP/CRM businesses to source staff skilled in Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, JDE World/One World

and Siebel; or matching high calibre professionals with roles in Database Marketing, Customer Insight,

Web Analytics or Credit Risk Analysis, SEC can assist wherever you are looking to hire or work

throughout the UK and Europe.

Established in 1987, SEC has grown to become an innovative

and award-winning provider of recruitment and talent

acquisition services, concentrating on specific, candidate

scarce markets. From our offices in London and Woking

we now have a team of over 60 highly skilled people, who

are passionate about recruitment. Our consultants are

focused, tenacious and willing to go the extra mile to

ensure we find the right person or new role for you. With

old-fashioned values and an incredibly strong work ethic,

we strive to provide an unmatched level of satisfaction for

all our customers.

SEC are a wholly owned subsidiary of RDL Corporation,

a UK based group of recruitment businesses providing high

quality, specialist recruitment and resourcing services to a

wide range of customers throughout Europe. RDL has

annual sales revenues in excess of £20 million.

QualityWe pride ourselves on our culture of providing an

exceptional level of service in all our customer interactions.

To show our commitment to this, we are members of

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo),

the Institute of Recruiters (IOR) and the Recruitment &

Employment Confederation (REC). You benefit by knowing

we have a recognised stamp of quality assurance, adhere

to a strict code of conduct and offer only the very highest

possible standards of recruitment practice.

In keeping with our focus of continuous improvement,

SEC is ISO 9001 accredited, an internationally recognised

standard for quality management. Maintaining our

accreditation guarantees we have proven processes in

place to ensure we meet and strive to exceed all customer

requirements.

Unique.

Innovative.

Award-winning. Welcome to SEC – a refreshingly different type of recruiter.

Award WinningThe delivery of high quality customer care really is of

paramount importance to us and we are extremely

proud that this has been formally recognised by winning

numerous industry awards and accolades.

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Sectors

We don’t claim to be experts in every

sector… but we can claim excellence in

those that we specialise in. These are:

Technology and Analytics

SEC specialises in recruitment for a variety of skill

sets within the wider Technology and Analytics

marketplace, including:

ERP (SAP)

ERP (JDEdwards)

Infrastructure

Development

Market Research

Customer Insight

Data Mining

Credit Risk

Data Analysis / Data Modelling

Data Warehousing

Pharma

SEC Pharma was developed to focus on the

Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medical Device, CRO and

Healthcare Consultancy industries and we specialise in

recruiting right across the vast spectrum of roles and

skills within the following disciplines:

Clinical Data Management

Clinical Research

Medical Affairs

Quality Assurance

Regulatory Affairs

Statistics & Programming

Pharmacovigilance

Pharma / Clinical IT

Sales & Marketing

CountriesSEC are almost unique within our chosen industries, as

our team consists of European, multi-lingual and highly

experienced consultants who know their markets extremely

well. Each has a focus on a particular skill set and specific

geography, depending on their technical knowledge,

cultural awareness, industry background and language

skills. With this unrivalled combination, SEC pro-actively

match niche professionals with hard-to-fill positions.

By familiarising ourselves with individual candidate skill

sets and personalities, as well as our client’s specific

business requirements and cultures, we guarantee we

can match jobseekers with client roles – ensuring both

organisation and individual can work to their full

potential, wherever they are located. We have successfully

recruited in:

France Germany

Switzerland United Kingdom

Spain Italy

Belgium Holland

Norway Denmark

Sweden Ireland

Czech Republic Portugal

Croatia Luxemburg

Austria Serbia

Poland

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Our Services – The Detail

A Partnership Approach

The majority of day-to-day contact with candidates and

clients is by phone and email, with quarterly client review

meetings being face to face. We are very flexible and work

the way you want us to, however to ensure we can deliver

the best possible service and continue to offer you the

most competitively priced recruitment services, we do ask

for the following from our clients:

A detailed and comprehensive brief on the role and

candidate requirements. Ideally via a conference call

with the relevant line manager and HR.

Specific feedback on CV’s submitted, so that we may

improve our search criteria if required, and provide

candidates with constructive feedback.

Post interview feedback, so that we may better

understand your requirements, improve our search

brief if required and provide candidates with

constructive feedback.

Having proven ourselves as valuable and high quality

suppliers, for you and your colleagues to see us and

work with us as true partners.

Client ServicesOur aim is quite simple – to find you the best people

for your business and make the process of selecting

and hiring them as easy as possible. We can do this

in a variety of ways:

Search our own extensive database of

pre-evaluated professionals.

Manage complete recruitment campaigns –

from agreement of criteria, remuneration and

targeting to campaign creation and personal

approaches to nominated individuals.

Proactively search for individuals to

match unusual, specific or demanding

requirement briefs.

Arrange open days to present a large

pool of pre-screened professionals.

Research benefit packages, salaries,

competitors, skills availability, media and

overall market trends.

Offer working interviews for a no risk solution

to immediate skills shortages.

And last, but not least, our truly consultative

and advisory service for candidates encourages

many top professionals to look to us for

ongoing assistance with their careers, keeping

us in regular contact with the people you could

be looking for.

Our services include Permanent, Interim and Contract

Recruitment, Managed Recruitment Campaigns, Managed

Advertising as well as Search and Selection when required.

In addition our consultants fully understand the challenges

facing the industry, emerging technologies and software

as well as an awareness of what some of the future trends

may be, ensuring we are well placed to also assist you with

planning and forecasting.

The benefits of choosing SEC as your recruitment partner:

Gain access to the best candidate attraction and

recruitment processes to suit your business.

Guaranteed proactive sourcing and selection of

the industries best talent.

Increase your ability to secure this talent, ahead

of the competition.

Reduce your time to recruit as well as the direct

and indirect costs of hire.

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Candidate Acquisition

Every recruitment assignment is different and we aim to

look at every one as a unique project in order to best

create the most effective solution for your business.

For contract recruitment we of course rely more on

our existing pool of pre-referenced contractors and

established networks for candidate acquisition as often

these roles are urgent hires. However it is often the case

that the contract roles we work to fill are for niche skills

and we continue to search for fresh talent, via networking

and headhunting type approaches.

For permanent recruitment we always emphasise

proactive candidate acquisition methods and this

intensifies according to the seniority and scarcity of

the talent we are searching for.

Our core methods are summarised below:

Networking / Referrals

Within the high demand, candidate scarce markets that

we specialise in, proactive sourcing is essential to access

the best talent. Through constant ongoing interaction

with our registered professionals we build strong mutually

beneficial relationships that regularly result in identifying

new talent. With this active approach we offer existing

candidates incentives to assist us with our search, much

like the employee referral programmes used by many

blue-chip companies. As part of our networking focus,

SEC is a regular attendee at all of the major European

industry conferences.

Proactive Search (Headhunting)

Closely related to our networking is our pro-active

sourcing for candidate scarce assignments. Our

consultants regularly make discreet approaches to

industry individuals who are not actively looking for

new opportunities. We seek to build a real

understanding of their career aspirations and also

market the opportunities our clients can offer them.

By using the traditional ‘headhunting’ method in our

contingency business, as well as our retained

assignments, we can offer you a service that not

every agency can, or more importantly will, provide.

We confidently place ourselves in direct competition

with retained agencies as we believe we have the

networks and experience to deliver on Director or VP

level positions, often at a significantly lower cost than

traditional headhunting firms.

Database Search

At any given time we have a shortlist of candidates who

have been telephone screened and who are currently

being marketed to existing clients, or who are waiting

to be short-listed for new assignments. This shortlist is

continuously updated so is always current and is our

first focus in sourcing talent. We operate a policy of

ensuring that every one of our active candidates is

contacted at least once per month although generally

contact is more frequent.

By data mining our own bespoke database, targeted

advertising or proactive sourcing we have immediate

access to pools of high calibre professionals, allowing

us to respond quickly to your resourcing requirements.

Advertising

We use a variety of sector specific printed and online

advertising to promote current roles as well as to raise

awareness of SEC’s candidate services, ensuring we

attract regular enquiries from industry professionals.

Our company website has recently been completely

redesigned with significantly improved functionality,

making it a powerful tool for both vacancy marketing

and candidate generation.

Recommendations

By far our favourite method of sourcing candidates is

recommendations where existing candidates, who have

already registered with SEC, refer a friend or colleague

to us. This is a testament to the emphasis we place on

building relationships, with candidates specifically, and

indeed to our business as a whole.

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In addition we ask detailed questions to ascertain a

candidate’s motivations for moving, their long-term

aspirations and their salary expectations. We feel

this produces improved efficiency in the recruitment

process and reduces any negotiation time regarding

salary at offer stage.

Qualification and Reference Checks

We request copies of educational achievements before

we submit candidate details to an organisation, however,

we do not send copies of these unless specifically

requested. Sometimes it is not always possible for

candidates to provide educational certificates in a short

timeframe and in this case we request that copies are

supplied as soon as possible.

We ask every candidate that registers with us for two

work references and we take these at the earliest

opportunity. Unfortunately it is often the case that

candidates do not authorise us to contact their referees

until they have received an offer of employment. For

contractors that have already worked for our clients we

are able to provide both formal and informal references.

Documentation Checks

SEC conducts checks on references, education and

identification for all candidates. This is done following

first interview and at a minimum at the point of offer

acceptance. We do not as standard check police records,

internet or professional association memberships. We do

require all candidates to provide us with a copy of their

passport, national ID card or working visa at the point at

which they accept a position. If we have any concerns

over eligibility for candidates to work in a particular

country we request these documents prior to registering

them on our database or submitting their CV to a client.

Selection Process

When selecting CV’s to match positions, our consultants

use the appropriate sourcing methods to obtain a ‘long-

list’, the definition of which is that CV’s on this reach the

basic requirements for the role. Every candidate on this list

is screened against the essential and desired requirements,

availability, interest level and salary expectations. Emphasis

is placed on ensuring that the candidate matches the brief

and every one selected for submission is considered to be

capable of securing an interview for the role.

For challenging searches where the number of candidates

available is relatively small, we operate a drip-feed

approach to candidate submission, submitting them as

and when they are qualified as suitable and interested,

within the agreed recruitment timelines. We further refine

our selection process using the feedback received from

earlier submissions.

Candidate Screening and Submission

SEC believes that the best way to measure the suitability

of a candidate is an assessment of their core

competencies, in line with both the technical requirements

of a job and the cultural values of our client organisations.

Our competency assessment framework will produce a

shortlist of ‘best fit’ candidates for interview and generally

create a more efficient and effective recruitment process.

We are committed to meeting with all candidates where

reasonably possible during the recruitment process.

However, due to the pan-European geographical spread

of our recruitment campaigns it is not always practical for

them to visit us for a face-to-face interview, therefore we

conduct thorough telephone screening procedures for

all candidates.

Telephone Interview

SEC conducts a comprehensive biographical and

competency telephone screen with every candidate

before registering them on our database or submitting

their details to our clients. As well as those areas

detailed already we have a structured process to interview

for skill set specific competencies and general soft skills.

Technical Competencies

We follow a telephone screening framework for each

skill set, which uses competency based questions to

assess the breadth and depth of experience within

each one. We focus on the key competencies required

in each role, based on information provided by our

clients at the start of the campaign.

Soft Skills Interview

Within our screening framework we also conduct a

soft skills assessment. Based on the responses and

the overall impression we receive we make evaluations

of a candidate’s soft skills, allowing us to then offer a

consultative opinion to our clients.

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CandidatesAt SEC we have a huge appreciation for the importance of

our working relationships with industry professionals. This is

the cornerstone of our success: it is this approach that sets us

apart from our competition. We strongly believe in building

relationships so we can genuinely help you, starting from the

moment you first register with SEC and continuing throughout

your career.

In addition to introducing you to some of the most exciting

and challenging permanent and freelance positions in the UK

and Europe, SEC will also assist you with planning your career

and consult with you on developing your skill set in order to

meet the challenges that our sectors of focus constantly face.

And even if we are not currently recruiting for the right

opportunity, rest assured we will help you find it!

Our service also extends to providing guidance and advice on

making the most of your CV and bespoke preparation once

you have secured an interview.

SEC can offer you:

An entry on our own market-leading database

(subject to interview and evaluation).

Regular cross checks of your details against the

requirements of leading companies.

Access to experienced consultants who truly do

understand your industry.

Dedicated searches to match your skills with any

unusual, specific or demanding requirement briefs.

Invitations to relevant recruitment open days.

Up-to-the-minute advice on salary levels, benefit

packages, skills availability and overall market trends.

Keep up to date with our latest vacancies at

www.secrecruitment.com and register to get email

alerts for new roles as soon as they are advertised.

Industry InnovatorsSEC has championed the development and operation of

apprenticeships within the UK recruitment industry. As a

result of developing our Apprenticeship Programme, more

than 50 recruitment companies have copied the SEC model

and several hundred recruitment companies will be using

apprenticeships during 2012, introducing thousands of new

recruits into our industry.

Innovation forms an intrinsic part of the SEC culture so in

2009 we took the strategic decision to develop the first

Apprenticeship Programme designed specifically for

recruitment. This programme had a dual objective – firstly

source and take on talented new recruits for our business,

and secondly to give something back by providing an

opportunity to talented and hard-working young Londoners

who were struggling to find their first job.

Without this innovation, which has been used in extensive

publicity by the National Apprenticeship Service, the industry

may not as readily have adopted this strategy, which not

only provides cost savings for the recruitment companies,

it provides opportunities for keen young people to join a

vibrant industry.

Stuart Britton, CEO of RDL Corporation, SEC’s parent

company, played a significant role in the development of

SEC’s Apprenticeship Programme and is now a member

of the Apprenticeship Ambassador Network, providing

leadership, advice and support to other recruitment

businesses looking to develop opportunities for young

people in UK recruitment.

As the first company in recruitment

to recognise the opportunity presented

by the Government Apprenticeship

scheme, SEC Recruitment has managed

to combine Corporate Social Responsibility

with a real bottom line benefit to their

organisation. They have led the way in

the development of young talent to

enhance their own business and the

recruitment profession as a whole.

APSCo’s statement on SEC Recruitment winning

the 2011 Innovator of the year Award

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