OUR BI-LINE

Capturing of alent through focused corporate intelligence.

THE RIDOUT GROUP

We embody all that is true of an emerging South African success story. Starting out in 2001 as a specialist middle management search business in Cape Town, The Ridout Group's CEO Rob Ridout had a simple vision – to build the most reputable search firm in South Africa. Now after eight years this vision is about to become a reality.

The Ridout Group's foundation has been built on our people, our values and our processes. But most of all our success stories. Our focus is on results. Just as the San people live to hunt so to do the hunters of The Ridout Group thrive on the art and science of proactively capturing talent. Our value proposition is not difficult to miss - we deliver time and time again. The benefit – the client gets their talent. Our key account focus and an ability to deliver on large search projects remains major strength in our talent scarce market.

Our weapons are simple yet effective; over 5000 search assignments completed in our search library and a well established database of head hunted candidates to guide us to our prey. The talent we hunt; Middle, Senior and Executive Talent. With an accumulative fifteen years of search experience within the team who can argue that The Ridout Group remains one of the top search firms in South Africa today.

RIDOUT VERSION OF HUNTERS

Our consultants. Trained initially in the art of research (gathering) for at least a year before venturing into the wilderness to perform the act of hunting. We place emphasis on the fact that our consultants first need to know where to hunt before embarking on the actual capture. Trained in the art of interviewing and getting to understand a clients unique tribal habits (corporate culture), the Hunter will with precision brief the gatherer so as to understand where and what to hunt.

RIDOUT VERSION OF GATHERERS

Our researchers. Understanding both the nature of the prey and the landscape (industry sectors) gatherers are trained in the art of corporate intelligence gathering before starting to locate talent. The art of finding the prey is of great importance, almost as important as the act of hunting itself. The tribe will need to work quickly and efficiently to ensure success. Gatherers will need to be able to use basic gathering tools such as BFA McGregors and our online research tool Recruitment Buddy. With over 5000 search assignments on Recruitment Buddy our gatherers have all the necessary support to ensure a successful hunt.

WE ARE HUNTER GATHERERS

The San people are known as very precise hunters and gathers. With limited resources in a harsh environment the San hunter will need to locate and kill its prey. As head hunters, like the San people, we also need to be precise in our hunting skills. Our brief from the client will determine our precision and like the San we focus on a very small pool of unique skills to ultimately find our number one candidate. The gatherer will need to provide the hunter with vital information to save time and ensure an accurate hunt.

SMALL TEAMS - BIG RESULTS

The San people are known for their ability to survive in small groups. Working together to ensure they survive the harsh conditions of the wilderness they inhabit. Our consultants and researchers also work together in small focused teams ensuring that our clients get the best talent on offer from the market place. Even though we are fewer than thirty nationally, we remain one of the largest and most formidable search firms in South Africa today.

SELLING YOUR BRAND

Our vernacular is unique to our search industry and focuses mainly on interpreting our clients' needs and communicating these talent requirements internally to our teams of hunters and gatherers. We speak about desk research and long lists - all search talk that in practice means we provide our clients with a value for money service. At the end of the day we represent our clients brand in the marketplace to prospects that we approach. We protect our clients confidentiality and respect the fact that we have placed talent with that client. Our “hands-off” policy precludes The Ridout Group from hunting any talent we have placed or entering that territory again.

COMPETITIVE PRICE AND SPEED - SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Operating in a niche market we are focused on providing our clients with realistic consulting fees and timelines. As we focus on hunting talent from the scarce middle management to executive pool our fees have a measure of flexibility. The focus for us is on results and hard work, no quick fixes and immediate solutions. Our average assignment timeline is approximately two weeks for a middle or senior role and four weeks for an executive role. We provide our clients with regular updates on approaches and include all research in our feedback, thereby providing in-depth corporate intelligence.

BRIEF BACKGROUND

2001 – Established as a one man tribe under a Kokerboom in the Cape as a premium middle and senior management search business.
2003 – The tribe grows to five hunters and takes and occupies land with several Kokerbooms in the central business dis- trict in Claremont.
2005 – Now a fully fledged Pty with an empowerment partner the tribe travels north to establish a splinter tribe in Gauteng to become a fully fledged national business. The Tribe in Cape Town is now one of the largest search firms in the Western Cape. 2007 – The Ridout Group now launches its second business Recruitment Buddy which it also uses as its own in-house re search and database tool. The Group also establishes a solid track record with its CSI venture through helping to establish the Sheffield United Football club as one of Alexandra's main football clubs.
2008 - Now with almost thirty tribe members, as well as an AAA rating from Empowerdex, the Tribe starts to take on some major new key clients in Gauteng further establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with. The business also splits into two separate Pty's and establishes a BEE trust for all black staff as well as appointing a Managing Director.

OUR PRODUCTS

Executive and Senior Specialist search - A negotiable retainer fee with a highly competitive placement fee.
Middle Management search – No retainer fee with competitive placement fee.
Project based search assignments - Clients with large hunting requirements will benefit from our project based head hunting approach.
Corporate intelligence work – Flat fee for gathering of names and titles.

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