2. A specialised recruitment consultancy
focused on mid-senior level
placements in the functional areas of
finance, financial services, human
resources, IT and Sales & Marketing.
Our Means to Your Ends
As consultants, our role extends beyond scanning resumes,
we aren’t a factory that churns out candidates. We know
that sending multitudes of resumes to an employer and
hoping they hire someone doesn't work in the long run. If
you know your human capital is an investment, then we
have the knowledge and the expertise to ensure you profit.
In order to create a sustainable relationship for you and
your candidate, we take the extra steps to understand:
1. Your organisation
2. The culture
3. The hiring manager’s personality and leadership style
Communication is the gateway to understanding your
needs, and communicating with the right people is key.
The relationships we build with key stakeholders within
your organisation will allow us to assess and filter
candidates more efficiently and effectively.
By listening to both sides, candidate and employer, we are
able to understand what is required to fill a position.
Taking that understanding we can define objectives for
both parties, and using these objectives we are able to filter
candidates coming through our sourcing channels and
when both objectives are met, we know we have found
the best fit.
Our Approach
We've known for some time that there is a gap in the recruitment industry,
on one end of the spectrum there are the large, public-listed companies
who have a responsibility to their shareholders and are forced to focus on
the numbers. On the other end are the venture capital funded firms that
have obligations to their investors, and need to focus on delivering quick
returns.
We fill this gap by bringing you the experience and knowledge of the large
companies, without the corporate, shareholder focused objectives. At the
same time, retaining the aspiration of long-term, mutually beneficial
relationships that the smaller venture capital, short-term growth focused
firms aren’t able to sustain.
Some people would describe this gap as a niche, but in practice it’s a
strategic necessity.
A company that is self-funded and self-owned has the professional pride of
focusing on delivering greater value to its clients, not its backers. This
opportunity is what we want to give to you. Instead of our internal
meetings being dominated by discussions on targets and shareholders, we
can spend that time talking about and understanding our clients and
candidates.
By filling this gap, we can fulfill your needs more personally, more
pro-actively, and with greater integrity. Our success isn’t solely dependent
upon delivering a product in the form of a candidate, it’s based on
delivering you long-term relationships - with Ellwood Consulting, and
more importantly, between you and your candidate.
“Hire on attitude.
Not just experience and qualifications.”
Greg Savage
photo@SC Shekar 2014.
3. Our Outcome
At Ellwood Consulting we know that a good hire is
about personality and cultural fit rather than just paper
qualifications. Our consultants understand the qualities
that make great candidates, so that we can make the best
recommendations for you.
Assessing past achievements is necessary, but asking the
right questions, and listening for the right answers, will
find you a candidate that will reward your organisation
in the future.
Most people ask
‘Do they have the right qualifications?’
‘Do they have the experience?’
We know that the right question is
“Will they improve the organisation?”
A great candidate will not only meet paper qualifica-
tions, they will enter your organisation with the
attitude, drive and vision that will help you achieve your
goals and add value. We are firm on our promise of
building long-term relationships through sector
expertise, personal service and an expert approach to
continually deliver the best candidates.
photo@SC Shekar 2014.
“My chief assets drive out the gate every day…
my job is to make sure they come back.”
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight
4. Our Founder
Mark Ellwood created Ellwood Consulting with 18 years of specialised recruitment
experience in hand. As the former Managing Director, Asia of one of the world's
leading public listed recruitment firms, Mark was responsible for the brand's introduc-
tion and growth in Singapore, Malaysia, Greater China, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
With 15 of those years spent developing high performing teams and profitable offices
in Asia, Mark has steered a global talent agency's success and the recruitment needs of
his clients through financial crises, talent shortages and political unrest.
Mark's passion for his clients and his desire to add value to the industry and develop
practices saw him champion the creation and optimisation of proprietary information
that have added value and helped clients in their hiring as well as advice relating to
compensation and benefits, market intelligence and sector industry knowledge.
In Malaysia, Mark identified an opportunity and an exciting challenge in the form of a
nation with increasing demands for high quality professional talent and an environ-
ment in which he could apply his specific talents and expertise. Mark saw Malaysia's
growing regional prominence and the increasing number of MNCs establishing a local
presence and knew the timing was right for him to drive this growth further by
sourcing the right talent.
Ellwood Consulting is delivering high-quality candidates through a refined, personal
process under the stewardship of one of Asia's highest performing recruitment
professionals.
Our Consultants
Our team of consultants have backgrounds rich in not
only recruitment experience, but in the functions they
specialise in. Functional experience means our consultants
understand the specific needs of a role and are better able
to assess a candidate’s capabilities and competency.
In terms of filling a role, our consultants have
wide-reaching networks from which they can source the
best candidates. From their previous roles in specialised
functions, they know what the right person looks like on
paper, and are then able to use their expertise in assessing
the soft side of a candidate to narrow down the search and
find you the right candidate.
Each consultant has been hand-picked and is mentored by
Ellwood Consulting's founder, Mark Ellwood.
“Often the best solution to a management
problem is the right person.”
Edwin Booz
Ellwood Consulting
26-03 Binjai 8
No 2 Lorong Binjai
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
www.ellwoodconsulting.com.my
“Development can help great people be even better
but if I had a dollar to spend, I'd spend 70 cents on getting
the right person in the door.”
Paul Russell
