Company Overview
NOVA SEARCH AND SELECTION
BRIGHTENING YOUR FUTURE
About Nova Search & Selection
Nova Search & Selection is a leading search and selection recruitment company. We have been around since 1999. We provide our clients with the most innovative search and selection methodologies, industry expertise and networking capabilities. Our service provides competitive advantage to clients through executive recruitment and high value human resource consultancy.
Clients retain our search and selection services when they are looking to achieve positive change, growth and competitive advantage. Our clients range in scale from start-ups to private held family firms and Small and Medium Enterprises.
Recruitment of a wide range of candidates into a variety of career positions is our speciality as we develop a close working relationship with our clients utilising a wealth of knowledge and experience and our recruitment skills are second to none.
Our highly developed and sophisticated search capability allows us to quickly identify the best individuals in the marketplace to match a specific set of defined core competencies. Together with our testing and video interviewing platforms, we are set to offer you the very best opportunity to find the very best candidate for your team.
NEVER ORDINARY, ONLY OUTSTANDING
Our Vision, Mission and Values
OUR VISION
Nova Search & Selection wish to continue to be a respected search and selection consultancy. To provide comprehensive, value-added recruitment services to our clients through a dedicated team that work in an enjoyable and friendly working environment.
OUR MISSION
Nova Search & Selection’s mission is to make a significant commercial contribution to our clients’ successes through delivery of imaginative, creative, and effective consultancy solutions.
Recruiting the right person for your team is never easy, but we understand the challenges, and will do our best to meet those challenges. We will help you put the recruitment jigsaw puzzle jointly, making sure that we find the final piece together.
OUR VALUES
- We value our clients and candidates, and this is shown at all times through the personal service we give with integrity and discretion.
- We look to be flexible and creative focusing on each client’s needs and delivering effective tailor-made solutions accordingly.
- We undertake to provide a committed and thorough service, take nothing for granted and be rigorous in our efforts to deliver the highest quality results.
- We are always transparent and will not make false promises.
RECRUITING EXCEPTIONAL TALENT
Our Services to You
- Search & Selection
- Management Search
- Advertising Selection
- Rapid Database Search
- Recruitment Process Consulting
- Market Intelligence/Competitor Analysis
- Salary Surveys
- Response Handling
- Agency Management
- Candidate Testing
- Video Interview Platform
Our ambition for our clients’ success means that we are always proactive and creative in identifying new services and markets.
ALWAYS PRO-ACTIVE
The Recruitment Process
- Detailed client briefing. This is preferable face to face, at your offices, via video interview or on the phone.
- Role and candidate specification discussed and agreed with client.
- Two-pronged approach. Firstly, select advertising media e.g. Total Jobs/Reed.co.uk/CV Library/Indeed/Linked-in, draft and place advertisements, manage response, compile longlist.
- Also, through market intelligence/networking/connections, identify and approach possible candidates, determine suitability/interest. Add to the longlist.
- Set up consultant interviews of the longlist, including initial phone discussion, then video interview/face to face depending on location.
- Complete candidate testing, such as accuracy, literacy. Determine suitability/interest.
- Present short-list to client.
- Set up first/second/third client interviews (attend with client if required), handle discounted candidates.
- Make job offer to best candidate. Assist with any negotiation between client and candidate.
- Offer accepted, take up two references.
- Candidate starts, check them in. Invoice client.
- Check both candidate and client are happy with a follow-up call a few weeks later.
This process can be as long or as short as the client needs. Sometimes candidates are on 1, 3- or 6-months’ notice, or sometimes they are immediately available. We will always discuss the situation with the client and work towards the date they require for the candidate to start in the new role.
“Our Consultants are adaptable and flexible, and approach each recruitment assignment with enthusiasm, imagination and initiative.
They make things happen!”
“Krissy is a breath of fresh air. Her level of service is exemplary. We tasked her with finding for a candidate profile that many had said we would never be able to find. In the end she found us two that we would have happily hired and we've ended up with someone I'm sure will be an invaluable addition to the team. Had it not been for Covid 19 the whole process would have been completed in record time too!”
STUART MACDONALD, FOUNDER OF MANILIFE
“Kristina Lushey has been a tremendous help in our search for the Head of Sales role. She fully understood the brief and our requirements and acted fast to collate and present suitable candidates. We went through a few CV¹s before we found the best candidate, and throughout the process Krissy has been patient, responsive and helpful!”
JAKE XU & SHANE CARNELL-UX, CO-FOUNDERS OF SHAKEUP COSMETICS
“I have known Kristina for over 20 years, we have used her skills to find a senior member of my management team on a number of occasions. Kristina showed herself to be adaptable and flexible to new sectors (we operate in Food and Retail). She was resourceful in finding a strong short list of candidates, and all we well briefed before I met them. Her style is purposeful and friendly – she takes time to understand the company culture and role dynamics to avoid sending unsuitable candidates to waste my time. Kristina understood this and was honest about suitability. She screened very effectively. I would have no hesitation in recommending Kristina Lushey irrespective of the sector you work in, as she has proven adaptability and professionalism.”
SALLY PRESTON, FOUNDER, THE KIDS FOOD COMPANY LIMITED
“Kristina has helped Konsileo both with telephone interviewing and assessing potential candidates to join our broking team as well as providing HR advice as required over the last 2 years. She has maintained a positive outlook and fully engaged in the aims and goals of the business. She has useful experience of the insurance marketplace and is always willing to go the extra mile. I have no hesitation in recommending Kristina, and am sure that she will be a useful asset to your business as she has been to ours.”
JOHN WARBURTON, FOUNDER OF KONSILEO LTD
“Kristina has been a pleasure to work with the last 2 years. She helped us find candidates from a standing start and to manage the recruitment process, which for us as a small start-up was a great help and made the whole process much more efficient.”
LAURA SMITH, FORMER HEAD OF OPERATIONS, KONSILEO LTD
“In short, Kristina understood our requirements very quickly and delivered as promised in a professional manner. Kristina is efficient, professional, knowledgeable and really good at what she does. We absolutely could not have found this candidate and appointed someone in France without the professional support of Nova Search.”
ANTOINETTE VALSAMAKIS, HEAD OF POLITICAL RISK PRACTICE, EIKOS RISK CAPITAL
“I have worked with Kristina for a number of years and she has delivered for me on a number of key assignments. Kristina knows her market extremely well and an important part of her skill set is getting to know her client and being an attentive listener. As a result, she gains a thorough insight into the type of candidate required which means only credible and appropriate applicants are proposed for interview. It is a pleasure working with Kristina and I am sure your business could benefit from her services as mine has.”
SUE MORLEY, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NEXUS CIFS
Building Client Relationships
We have successfully worked with national and international clients across a wide spectrum of sectors, from placing Risk Managers in France, Austria and the UK within the international insurance market, Insurance Underwriters in the Lloyd’s of London Insurance Market, to placing a Head of Sales for a new Men’s Cosmetics Brand, a .Net Developer for a Credit Insurance Brokers and most recently to a Part-time Financial Controller for a Peanut Butter company.
We even did research and wrote full reports at the request of the client as to the employment law for a UK company hiring a French and Austrian National in their respective countries.
We can say, we have pretty much done it all! We started out as insurance recruitment specialists, then we moved into placing a variety of candidates within the FMCG market place, working very closely indeed with Kiddylicious Limited, that was bought out in 2019 by Lotus Biscuits. Having placed 75% of their staff over the last 10 years, we are happy to continue the connection with Kiddylicious as their main recruiter.
We have most recently become very involved with a variety of different start-up companies, and as Kristina Lushey is a qualified HR Manager, we have also been able to offer the start-up companies HR advice, as part of the working relationship. If there is a recruitment assignment involved, then the start-up company gets the HR advice for free, and including templates for offer letters, Contracts of Employment, or anything else that may be required.
We are proud of our strong client relationships, and as they will testify, we give an exceptional personal service, being available outside of normal working hours, to deal with any recruitment or HR crises as they arise. Our Unique Selling Points would be our accessibility, but also our willingness to turn our hand to whatever our clients need or require.
Nova Search & Selection
Brightening your future
www.novasearch.co.uk
Email: hello@novasearch.co.uk
Tel: 0208-393-7413
Established since 1999