EXPERIENCE A REWARDING RECRUITMENT JOURNEY

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1 COMPANY PROFILE EXPERIENCE A REWARDING RECRUITMENT JOURNEY Leonie Ellis Placements is a niche specialist search and placement agency focused on Legal and Compliance for permanent/contract recruitment in South Africa and international markets. Our vision is to build our unique brand by connecting the right professionals with the right employers of choice and facilitating a smooth and rewarding recruitment journey for candidates and clients alike. Our core philosophy centres on making a difference by connecting the right candidates to the right roles to attain growth, achievement and reward for both the candidate and the client. Leonie Ellis Placements has been facilitating these incredible career journeys since July We ensure that the professionals we guide to our select clients shores know why they are in the market and have a clear vision for their future careers. In addition, we truly listen to the client and candidate s vision of what they want to achieve ensuring that the match fulfills each party s goals. This is what stimulates long-term prosperity for all. In order to do the above successfully we partner with our candidates and clients; ensuring the journey is smooth sailing. WHY LEONIE ELLIS PLACEMENTS? Quality Candidates: we forward relevant CV s ONLY. With extensive recruitment experience, Leonie Ellis has focused entirely on Legal and Compliance roles since 2002 resulting in the development of deep networks and knowledge of where to find required skill sets. Excellent knowledge of the industries we serve including: Financial Services, Law Firms, FMCG, Telecommunications Property/Construction and Parastatals. Highly selective with candidates and clients we choose to partner with. Tracking of South African professionals locally and abroad. Experience in international markets and understanding global best practice within English speaking countries. Reliable feedback (we will not promise results if we believe it is not possible to deliver). Offer career guidance to professionals and employers.

2 OUR PLEDGE TO CLIENTS AND CANDIDATES Candidates: Clients: We will assist candidates to find a role that complements their career vision with an employer of choice. We will present candidates that are qualified, have demonstrated a high level of skills declared and who are an excellent cultural fit for your environment. OUR HISTORY 2007 Leonie Ellis launched Leonie Ellis Placements with a focus on international markets. During this time gained an understanding of legal and banking markets in UAE, Australia, Dubai and the United Kingdom. Leonie Ellis Placements was selected as preferred supplier to Standard Chartered in Dubai (local banks), a large Telecoms Company in Bahrain (UAE) and varied international legal firms Experienced a 100% increase in market share within international markets Member of APSO. Leonie Ellis Placements refocused attention to the South African market, in addition to international markets. Launched regular legal networking sessions which are growing in reputation as being highly informative to the market. Working with international legal management consultants in facilitating a legal symposium held for 40 heads of legal to understand how to increase their teams profile within their organization. This is held at the end of October 2010 (see Invited to join the Board of Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa Invited to be on the panel of judges for the Africa Legal Week Awards Attended The Global Leaders in Law, mini-mba for General Counsel at Somerville College in Oxford. Piloted The Legal Bootcamp at Stellenbosch University a joint venture with the Corporate Lawyers Association. Invited to be on the panel of judges for the 2014 Africa Legal Week Awards. Co-hosted Networking events with Global Leaders in Law for General Counsel in Cape Town and Johannesburg. SPECIALISATION Role Specialisation Legal - Commercial and Banking Law - Commercial Litigation - Forensic Investigation - Commercial Labour - Insurance Law (short and long term) - IT Law Industry Specialisation - Law Firms - Financial/Insurance/Banking - Telecommunication - Construction - Property - FMCG I believe strongly in making it happen! Leonie Ellis 2

3 - Multi Nationals - Listed Companies - Parastatals Compliance - Banking, Insurance, IT, FMCG, and Telecommunications - Including AML and Terrorist Finance SERVICES Permanent/Contract Recruitment (South Africa) We assist our clients with permanent and contract search and placement. Our talent sourcing methods and recruitment methodology is proven, producing continued results for our clientele. Many of our clients have, in addition, requested that we pro-actively discuss available candidates with them immediately upon them entering the job seeker market. This ensures that our clients have access to best of breed candidates before other employers, enabling them to populate their business with the best of the best. We have built a reputation within the market amongst South Africans working abroad due to our regular interaction with them and we are the first port of call to many South African legal and compliance professionals returning home. Please note that we do not manage a payroll structure, therefore the contractor will need to be placed on the client s payroll. OUR DATABASE Our database comprises of approximately over professionals within the legal, and compliance areas, predominantly located in Gauteng, of which 75% are Employment Equity. Please note that Leonie Ellis, the Director and Specialist Consultant of Leonie Ellis Placements, has interacted with each and every candidate that populates the database. It is imperative that the quality of the database is not compromised and therefore only suitably qualified and focused professionals are added. OUR EXPERIENCE Experience within Specialisation Legal & Compliance Since 2002 Management Experience Leonie Ellis is the Director and Specialist Consultant managing client and candidate relationships. She is personally responsible for managing all search and placement assignments from inception to completion. Leonie has attained a Marketing Management Diploma through IMM, as well as completing training within hospitality. She has many recruitment experience of which the latter years was focused within specialist banking, finance and accounting teams. In 2002 she founded the legal recruitment desk at a prominent financial/professional recruitment firm branching into compliance placements during that time. Leonie started her career in the hospitality industry, had a short stint working in a leading management consultant practice and then gained 7 years experience within the property market transacting both in South I believe strongly in making it happen! Leonie Ellis 3

4 Africa and abroad. After returning to South Africa, she wanted to use her talent of matching people and properties to matching people with the next level of their careers, hence recruitment was an obvious choice. Her career path has given her insight and understanding into what is important when making a career move and how to maximise on each experience. Throughout her career Leonie has been involved in intuitively finding the perfect fit for her clients, whether this is in the property, hospitality or recruitment fields. Her honed talent selection, negotiation and matching skills have enabled Leonie to etch her mark as one of the leading recruitment entrepreneurs within her area of specialisation; with an array of reputable clientele and a database of remarkable best in class talent. Leonie is passionate about seeing individuals grow and cares for each candidate s ability to fulfill their career dream, in addition to making a valuable difference to each of her clients. She is a committed and dedicated professional who is able to deliver through an accurate understanding of the industries she serves and the candidates she represents. MEMBERSHIPS Leonie Ellis Placements is a member of the following associations: Corporate Lawyers Association: Board Member Compliance Institute of South Africa: Member APSO : Member Leonie Ellis Placements attends the following conferences in order to network and monitor industry trends: - Women in Finance - The Gibs Forum hosted by Gibs Business School - Legal Week Awards - Varied International Legal conferences - Leadership Course in Oxford, UK ADD VALUE BENEFITS Networking Functions Leonie Ellis Placements hosts regular networking sessions for the legal community, covering a wide array of topics. The information covered in these networking sessions, ranging from soft skills to technical, is fed back to clients and candidates, adding true value to the industries we serve. TECHNOLOGY We utilise an online recruitment management system, trecruit, which allows us to complete defined database searches, track applicants and clients, generate customised reports, post jobs directly to our website and other job boards as well as indexing of jobs on Google and other job portals, generating CVs, tracking client news; all of which can be updated from anywhere in the world. The online database is hosted on a large mainframe server where regular backups are completed to protect data. FEE STRUCTURE Service Permanent Placements Contract Placements Fee Structure (excl VAT) 15% annual cost to company Pro-rata I believe strongly in making it happen! Leonie Ellis 4

5 Our terms and conditions document is available on client request, which includes information regarding our guarantee offered. METHODOLOGY Interview with the client Upon receiving a job specification we meet with the client personally. It is preferable to meet with HR, as well as the line manager, to ensure an accurate understanding of the role, the environment and leadership. It is at this phase that we not only gain knowledge of the role and individual required, but we also assess the client and the fit for the professionals we represent. Database Search Our first port of call is to conduct a defined database search. In addition, please note that we do have external databases available to us. Should we not be able to find the perfect match on our database we will move to Phase two. Attraction Strategies Although we do utilise recruitment advertising, we have found through past experience that networking results in often more reliable results. Through a networking approach we avoid the employer having to compete with a host of other employers for the same job seeker. Instead we focus on presenting a candidate that has considered his/her options and wants to move for the right reasons and the right opportunity. We do also utilise targeted online and print media if required. Screening and Shortlisting We conduct a one hour interview as a minimum with all professionals. In the interview we assess what percentage of information within the CV the candidate is actually doing. We get to know their technical skills, their personality, their vision and what stresses them. Through the interview we will assess how committed they are and whether their vision is clear. We will discuss why this respective position will get them to where they want to be. What it is about their current position that is creating the push to move forward? By asking the right questions we can ascertain whether the candidate may accept a counteroffer, whether they may carry their dissatisfaction forward to the new employer or if they are truly serious about their career move. We focus on placing professionals who are decidedly focused. We will also closely monitor cultural fit, thereby ensuring that shortlisted candidates presented match our promise of sending ONLY relevant candidates. Verification Checks and References Reference checks are completed on all professionals we present to clients. Within the reference check we probe technical strengths and weaknesses, as well areas of development. We conduct all the necessary verification checks accordingly. Interview with client We arrange interviews between the client and the candidate. In instances where challenges have been experienced in the past by the client we are able to sit in on an interview to establish reasons for these challenges and what is important to the client. Feedback is provided to the client and the candidate accordingly after any interview. Negotiations We are able to facilitate negotiations if required by the client, alternatively the client may handle this part of the process should they prefer. Resignation process of the candidate We assist the candidate through their resignation process, talking them through how to resign professionally and discussing the implications of receiving a counter offer and how this may impact on their overall vision for their career. We ensure that the candidate is walked through this difficult period to guarantee a successful outcome. I believe strongly in making it happen! Leonie Ellis 5

6 Following up We start off by wishing the candidate well and informing them of what will be happening on their first day. On their commencement date we follow-up with both the client and the candidate. In addition, we make contact one week thereafter and again one month later to ensure that both parties are content and that any concerns are communicated and resolved. SOURCING TALENT We utilise the following methods in sourcing talent: - Internal and external database of top calibre professionals - Extensive networking and market intelligence - Print and online targeted media - Word of mouth referrals BEE STRATEGY Ownership/Management Leonie Ellis Placements is a 100% female owned and managed micro enterprise with an automatic Level 4 BEE Rating. Procurement We support similarly female owned organisations, as well as BEE organisations as far as possible with a focus on quality service delivery. Social Commitment We host networking functions that benefits members of the legal community to the value of R6500 per month. Skills Training and Development Piloted Legal Bootcamp for LLB students; this bridges the gap between theory of law and the practice of law. IN CONCLUSION By partnering with us we will ensure that your teams attain growth, achievement and reward by employing candidates that match the vision and culture of the team and organisation. I believe strongly in making it happen! Leonie Ellis 6