Frequently Asked Questions

No one employing a professional recruiting services consultant expects to receive a cookie cutter response to his or her need. We believe every need is unique and requires an independent response. This is especially true when matching personal motivation and chemistry with the culture of an organization.

Communication with our clients during the search process is very important. It is through team effort that a project is brought to a successful and efficient conclusion. We ask for a primary management contact to communicate with and provide weekly updates supplemented by contact on an as needed basis.

Unfortunately, you may have worked with recruiting firms in the past that failed to produce qualified candidates. We are committed to accepting and conducting only those projects where we believe there is the opportunity to succeed. If we do not have that level of confidence in a project, we will not accept the assignment.

Throughout the search, you will be involved in decisions and updated on a regular basis regarding search progress. This relationship positions you to evaluate and select the candidate that best fits your needs. This close working relationship at every step in the search results in a hiring decision based on open information and facts. We have a high level of confidence in our process, which produces on target people that stay with their companies. As additional comfort, we provide our clients with a replacement guarantee should the unexpected occur.

We guarantee active clients that we will not recruit from their organizations. This requires us to be very selective in choosing the companies we partner with for recruiting services. The benefit to our client is our ability to source candidates from a broad base of top tier organizations. Our clients count on this ability and we provide it.

Absolutely. We get to know your organization’s culture, objectives and markets better than many of your own employees. WorldBridge Partners’ manufacturing talent acquisition team (and our recruiting services) become an extension of your company in the candidate marketplace. Because we know you so well, we are able to fluently tell your story to the best and brightest candidates, answer their questions and lend credibility to our recruiting process and your company in the candidate’s eyes. Since we are strategic in choosing our client relationships and work with a select few companies in each of the industries we serve, the majority of the candidate pool in each industry is available to us.

The abilities and resources of a Senior Practitioner and the project support team will be fully utilized to identify and attract the most desirable talent available. Beyond that, we work with clients to select short listed candidates, schedule initial and final interviews, complete reference checks and degree verifications, negotiate and close on your offer and provide post hire resignation and relocation assistance.

The need for strict confidentiality is understood. Both you and our candidates need to know that we will maintain integrity at every step. We will not breach this trust.

Working with a recruiting organization can have different outcomes based on the relationship established. Red flags exist when a search firm employs salespeople who have nothing to do with the actual search undertaken. The same is true when there is no commitment made to understand, in detail, the strategic and tactical needs behind your desire to hire. Professional consultants spend time and effort to acquire knowledge that allows them to serve a client’s needs in a thorough and efficient manner. A key strength of the WorldBridge Partners process is that every project is managed by a Senior Professional who is fully involved in all aspects of the search. This ensures clients receive a consistent level of service at all times. Our business has been built by binding the relationships established and projects undertaken to the same Senior Practitioner.

There is nothing more frustrating than needing to reach someone and finding that difficult or impossible to accomplish. Our clients are given access to their Senior Professional seven days a week, even during non-business hours, making communication quick and easy. At the same time, there is always a backup Senior Professional who can be reached if someone is traveling and immediate contact is important.

In some cases, yes. If a critical need exists, we are able to customize our recruiting services by committing additional staff to certain parts of the project, thereby compressing time. During the interview phase, timing is dependent upon the schedule and availability of the client’s interviewing managers as well as the candidate. We coordinate with both parties to move the talent acquisition process along as quickly as possible.

When we enter a retained search, the commitment of time and effort of Senior Staff, the Research Team and support personal begins at the inception of a project. As in other professions, clients are receiving the expertise and effort of the company at that point.

The industry standard for retained recruiting firms is to refrain from contacting employees of active clients. For the largest recruiting organizations, this is very restrictive and limiting. For those firms, there are many candidates from top organizations that cannot even be approached because of the client relationship that exists. This is another reason why we are so strategic and selective in choosing our clients/partners. We position our firm to partner with a few great companies, providing wide access to a broad sector of candidates we are able to contact on your behalf.