James Mc Erlean provides other, supporting services - either alongside a retained assignment or on a stand-alone basis. These include:

We have consultants fully qualified to conduct Personality Profiling, Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning Exercises. Clients often use these at shortlist stage on retained assignments or when they are making a choice between two closely matched candidates. But we also assist clients in assessing existing staff in a variety of contexts, including organisational change and management development.

When a client does not wish to use the full-retained consultancy approach, we can provide Advertising Response Management. This frequently involves placing an advertisement in the press on our client's behalf - often confidentially - then using our specially designed back-office systems to handle the response, including full candidate communication. In many cases, we will also use our consultants' experience to assist clients in assessing the response - for example, sorting them into 'must see', 'might see' and 'inappropriate'.

This might range from informal advice based on our experience of a particular role or sector to an introduction to our specialist contacts, who can provide in-depth information based on an extensive range of surveys.

For information about our range of Internet related services, see Online Services.