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Earlier this week thanks to Diane Morris at Chenavari, as our host venue, Zofia Sharman - All About Relationship, our wellbeing ambassador held another one of our HR Wellbeing Breakfasts – the sector this time was Hedge Funds. The group discussion was extremely positive with the sentiment massively pro the need to support staff with effective wellbeing plans. Particular common ground lay around the ever increasing importance of mental health, menopause education, boardroom dynamic and how that can impact wellbeing levels, and even investor involvement. Big thanks to all those HRs who attended. For anyone keen to be involved in our future Client Wellbeing Series please get in touch with Zofia, she would love to hear from you – zofia.sharman@hanoversearch.com
Today is World Mental Health Day and this years theme is Suicide Prevention. Why do we need a day to raise awareness and focus on Mental Health? As there are still too many people who suffer in silence, are scared to talk openly for fear of judgement or lack of understanding over such a complex issue. Here at Hanover, mental health is extremely important to us and we ensure we put our employees mental health and wellbeing at the forefront of what we do and is central to our values as a business. If you feel alone today or just a little down, please do reach out to a friend or family member and talk. The Mental Health Foundation message today is one of hope, hope is like oxygen for our mental health, is the vital ingredient in supporting people to hold on, below is a link to a blog from their Chief Executive, Mark Rowland. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMYlR
NEW HIRE – We are delighted to announce the hire of Gareth Rees who has recently joined our London office. Gareth is a Managing Partner at Hanover Search Group and has joined to lead a team of experienced recruiters focused on Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, Audit & Compliance (Infrastructure). He is responsible for retained search and C-level mandates. Gareth has over 17 years’ experience placing senior Infrastructure leaders across Banking, Asset and Wealth Management and Insurance industries delivering requirements for COO, CRO, CIO, CTO, CFO, Chief Information (& Cyber) Security Officer, Chief Data Officer, Head of Data & Analytics, Head of Infrastructure and Digital Transformation leaders. Gareth will be delivering mandates from our London office across Europe and Asia. Stephen Phipps, European CEO comments ‘Acquiring an individual of Gareth’s calibre demonstrates to the market our continued commitment to being our clients’ Global Provider of Talent Solutions. He will add a massive amount of value to our organisation and help extend our significant recent success’.
HSG CHARITY EVENT – On Thursday, members of our London office are taking part in the City v Wharf 5k Run Challenge at Victoria Park. We will be running to help raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society. Alzheimer’s Society is the only UK charity that campaigns for change, funds research to find a cure and supports people living with dementia today. Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. Someone develops it every three minutes and there’s currently no cure. HSG are proud to be involved in this event and supporting such a deserving charity! We would really appreciate your help and support in raising money for this great charity. Any amount no matter the size will make a difference. Please click this link for further details - http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMcim
HSG Business Update - Yesterday we held a business update for the London office with our global offices joining via video conference. Our Group CEO, James Emmett gave a great presentation focusing on our plans for 2019 with special recognition and promotions for some of our employees! Our marketing team also gave an insightful look into what's in store for HSG over the coming months... lots of exciting change coming soon. Watch this space!
HSG’S WELL-BEING PROGRAMME - On Friday we enjoyed the third instalment of our Well-being Programme hosted by Zofia Sharman - All About Relationship. The topic was on Sleep and this being a “Golden Time” that many of us can dismiss. We looked into Movement where we considered the importance of what we do in our day and how we are being with ourselves i.e. if we’re feeling connected or not and if it affects how we go to sleep and its quality and also how we wake up too; sleep being a cycle within a 24 hour day. We loved doing the gentle exercises Gill Randall, Physiotherapist showed us that we can try throughout our work day at our desks to help bring ourselves back into connection. Our favourite was the unravelling of the spine! We were gifted an amazing scented eye pillow that you can even heat up in the microwave to rest on your eyes. Our special thanks to Sara Williams and Gill Randell.
NEW OFFICE – our London team are in a new office today. We are in the same building so no change of address but a much larger space to accommodate our growing business! The space was designed and built bespoke for our needs and our European CEO, Stephen Phipps surprised the office with some treats this morning to celebrate the move! Hope you all have a great Monday!
Data Science in the New Economy – will have a transformative effect on eroding the existing silos in Financial Services, a proactive approach to the finding and retaining these key individuals will have a profound impact on the sector in the coming years. Our associate James Sweeney discusses the key points for industry leaders. Continue reading here...
NEW HIRE – We are delighted to announce the hire of Stuart Paterson who has recently joined our London office. Stuart is a Managing Partner at Hanover Search Group and leads the Private Equity and Venture Capital Search practice. He brings with him a great deal of experience within recruitment and has been very successful placing people at all levels up to and including Partner / C – Suite. During his career, he has built an impressive network and is very relationship driven. Stuart has been successful in delivering mandates with specific diversity and inclusion criteria and champions the positive effects that it can have on a search process and the culture within his clients. Stephen Phipps, European CEO comments ‘We are very excited to have Stuart join Hanover Search Group. He brings a significant personal brand in the Private Equity arena and demonstrates our commitment to becoming the market leader in this sector. He immediately joins the European leadership team and will work with us to execute our strategy of being our clients’ global provider of talent solutions.’
Recruiter: “I’m so sorry, the client didn’t select you for the next round of interviews, this was because of X” Candidate: “ok, their loss, not mine, I don’t agree at all with the reason though” As Recruiters delivering feedback is a fundamental part of our role, but how many of us give the whole contents? Or do we tend to sugar coat it, downplay it, gloss over it, provide a generic reason to not offend the person, or even not give feedback at all… Click here to enjoy the insightful crisp read on mental healthiness from our Wellbeing Ambassador, Zofia Sharman - All About Relationship...
