Uman Partners provides long-term support and advice to Data Talent, offering them the best opportunities in the market at trusted and long-standing clients of the firm.
Approach
We share in a structured manner many details about our clients: cultural aspects, (digital and data) transformation journey and related dynamics, HR as well as strategic elements. On top of that and thanks to our unique position in the market, we are able to provide a more holistic vision of the market.
Furthermore, Uman Partners helps our candidates to evaluate their technical skills as well as their leadership (soft) skills required in order to maximize their chances of success for the mid and long term.
All of this allows our candidates to take well-founded and well-structured decisions about their next career move, based on precious input of our Partners.
Process
Our first contact will be a phone conversation
- You describe your expectations in terms of next career step.
- You give us a brief description of your experiences and technical skills.
- We’ll give you a detailed presentation of an opportunity that matches your expectations, and we’ll then arrange a deeper conversation should you be interested.
We provide you with a very detailed document describing the opportunity
- It provides a comprehensive overview of the company (history, products, governance).
- It typically lays out the strategic priorities and how Data and AI is positioned.
- • It explains the Data and AI project, and more broadly its digital transformation project and how it aligns with the company’s overall business strategy, the level of maturity, the roadmap, the eventual use cases, the technologies chosen, the team’s organization chart, etc.
- It provides a clear job description and scope.
- It lists the candidate’s skills expectations and requirements.
- It already provides insights into the recruitment process.
We meet you
- We tackel all possible questions you might have.
- We further detail together your key career steps and achievements as well as key technical aspects.
- Through situational questioning, we document your degree of mastery of the leadership skills required to maximize your success in the position to be filled (Evidence Based Interview).TM).
- We complete our assessment of your motivation and ability to succeed in the position to be filled (medium and long term).
- We prepare you for the first interview stage with our client.
You meet our client
- We provide our customer with a detailed file of your application.
- We provide you with regular client feedback along the process and prepare you for each new interview.
- We debrief you after each interview with our client.
You receive a proposal from our client
- We prepare our client to make you an offer as close as possible to your expectations.
- We work with both parties to create win-wins.
- We continue to support you in the process of resigning from your current position.
Integrating in your new company
- Uman Partners’ engagement continues as you take up your new position. We will continue to act as mediators between you and your new n+1, shareholder or board of directors.
Uman Partners delivers insightful advice to structure data teams, and can help you elaborate on the necessary attributes of your employer brand and data driven initiative to source the best talents in the field.
Uman Partners helps clients make evidence-based decisions and maximise the impact and success of talent integration within organisations.
Process
You tell Uman Partners your need, we’ll help you to specify it
- We help you describe your organization in detail: history, figures, markets, products, growth, competition, shareholders, governance, strategy.
- We help you describe your organization in detail: history, figures, markets, products, growth, competition, shareholders, governance, strategy.
- Uman Partners helps you describe your Data and AI strategy towards the talent market, and even helps adjust it if necessary (to maximize its attractiveness to candidates), benchmark it to position it in the market.
- We describe the context of the recruitment: job creation, replacement, succession plan; title within the company, on the market; stakes for the company; environment of the position (complete organization chart, hierarchical and functional links, identification of the n+1, evaluation of the team, analysis of the team’s short-term future).
- We define together the precise missions of the position to be filled.
- We define realistic and ambitious profiles to fill the role: key experiences, technical skills, behavioral (or leadership) skills defined by our EBI (Evidence-based Interview).
- Uman Partners produces a detailed document to be used as a presentation document and shared with the potential candidates.
We target, identify and approach candidates directly
- By drawing target org charts known to us for their expertise in the required areas in order to identify Talents who are still unknown to us.
- By contacting key leaders in the required field.
We meet with the candidates
- We make sure that most of their initial questions are being clarified and answered.
- They talk about their career, their outstanding achievements, and we detail key technical aspects.
- Through situational questioning, we document their degree of mastery of the leadership skills required to maximize their success in the position to be filled (EBI – Evidence Based Interview).TM.
- We finish by assessing their motivation and ability to succeed in the position to be filled (short, medium, long term).
Uman Partners presents a shortlist of candidates
- We will provide you with a comprehensive report describing the candidate’s professional background, which is complementary to the resume. This report will also include information on the candidate’s motivation, current and desired remuneration, and recommendations for future interviews.
- If required, just before a proposal is made to a candidate, Uman Partners takes references from people whom the candidate has authorized us (in writing) to contact.
- Uman Partners provides very active assistance in organizing interviews between the selected candidates and you, in order to maximize the speed and candidate experience, a key factor in the success of the assignment.
You make an offer to a candidate
- We support the candidate through the process of accepting the offer, advising you on remuneration, and informing you of the factors likely to influence his/her decision.
We follow up on the candidate’s integration
- Uman Partners’ mission continues as the candidate takes up his or her new position. We continue to act as mediators between the new employee and his/her new n+1, shareholder or board of directors.
- We monitor the integration of the candidate recruited in order to validate his/her integration. Our aim is to identify any risk factors that may exist, and to help address them together.