16 25 Years of De Lacy Executive recruitment De Lacy Executive’s Harry Porter Shortlisted for REC Award Here is what Harry had to say on being shortlisted for the award: Harry epitomises everything we strive for at De Lacy Executive with his commitment to delivering the premium candidate experience that people have come to expect from us. Our internal motto is that we always ‘treat people like people’, and never fall into the trap that many other recruitment businesses so often do of providing a purely transactional service where candidates are only valuable as long as they are generating fees. This is the ‘De Lacy difference’ that has enabled us have sustained success over our 25 year history and become the leader in our field. We were proud to announce earlier this year that Harry Porter, one of our Key Account Consultants was shortlisted for the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s ‘Candidate Experience of the Year’ award. Harry joined us as a Recruitment Consultant in 2023, coming from a marketing background he had no previous experience in recruitment and is testament to our comprehensive Recruiter Development Programme and supportive management team. Since arriving at De Lacy Executive, Harry has gone from strength to strength, successfully filling roles across several agricultural subsectors and earning praise from clients and candidates alike for his commitment to running an efficient recruitment process. Harry Porter I’m grateful to be shortlisted for this award and to be recognised by the industry body for the effort I put in to creating a strong candidate experience. For me delivering a high quality candidate experience is all about communication – a lot goes into a recruitment process, there’s so many moving parts from headhunting, to shortlisting, interviews and ultimately offer stage. My priority in all of this is to make sure I’m across all the details, I check in regularly with people at each stage so that nobody is left in the dark. A non-negotiable for me is making sure I respond to every application I receive because for me that’s the minimum standard everyone deserves. The nature of recruitment unfortunately is that the majority of the people you put forward will not be successful in their application because there is usually only one job available, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make every effort to keep them informed and provide constructive feedback. Where I’ve found the most fulfilment in my job is when I’ve been able to go back to someone who was previously unsuccessful in one of my processes and help them land a role which is even better suited for them.
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