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Strathleven Regeneration Company

Strathleven Regeneration Company was formed following the closure of the J&B Whisky Plant at Gooseholm Road, Dumbarton. The principal objective of the company is to focus on promoting, supporting, or undertaking projects which will create opportunities for economic development
in the Strathleven corridor.

Strathleven Regeneration Company (SRC) represents a partnership of local interests through West Dunbartonshire Council, Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire and the local community. All profits generated by the company are reinvested in further regeneration developments and initiatives in the area.

David McGregor, Company Secretary of Strathleven Regeneration Company, approached YPM to manage the Recruitment and Selection of an Executive Director into the organisation. Having previously engaged HCS’s ‘7 Step Recruitment’ process, he felt YPM offered the best fully managed service to fulfil the Recruitment need.

David comments ‘As a high profile local appointment, the role of Executive Director within SRC required a carefully managed process. We needed the process, the board and potential candidates managed with a high degree of integrity, openness and rigour. Operating as a regeneration company means we have to satisfy the interests of the local community, Council and Scottish Enterprise and as such we had to be 100% confident in the ability of the process to deliver the right results with a candidate who will cope with the pressures and responsibilities laid
upon their shoulders. Using their 7 step recruitment plan, HCS used their expertise to define and manage a process that would stand up to any scrutiny, and be highly effective in attracting and selecting someone with the right set of skills and attributes. HCS defined a clear specification of skills, experience and competencies to recruit against, ensuring we were all crystal clear on the
requirements. They managed the advertising copy, meeting deadlines for publication and handled all of the incoming applications, giving us the utmost confidence that the brand of Strathleven was being carefully considered at all times.

Once HCS had conducted a thorough initial screening of all the applicants, they provided the interviewing panel with a shortlist of highly qualified candidates. HCS also defined a set of competency based questions that would explore the core skills of the candidates and provide us
with comprehensive evidence to make an informed decision. During the interviewing process, HCS managed the scheduling and the panel to make sure each candidate was given equal opportunity to put forward their suitability for the role.

Delivery of such a clear and well managed process made the decision of who was right for the job that much easier. We have retained HCS to work with the newly appointed candidate when they take the post up to make the transition a smooth one, and one which will result in the appointed candidate performing well in a short time frame. We look forward to seeing the results’

HoundDog Technology

HoundDog Technology is a rapidly growing business providing an
easy, affordable system for IT Support and Managed Service companies. Working with over 1,000 support companies globally, HoundDog monitors the support companies’ clients around-the clock and checks their systems to ensure that all are operating at peak effectiveness. When they’re not, HoundDog alerts the IT support
company so they can take steps locally to keep their client up and running.

HoundDog are actively recruiting new employees and are finding that more and more candidates are coming from outside the EU. HoundDog wanted to ensure that they are implementing the correct measures to ensure that all candidates are eligible to work within the UK – they are aware of the financial risk to the business should they fall foul of requirements.

HoundDog contacted HCS for some direction on how to implement a pragmatic process that would be simple for them to execute, whilst ensuring fairness and consistency of all new employees. A process was implemented as part of HoundDog’s pre-screening measures requiring all new employees regardless of their origin to provide evidence on their eligibility to work in the UK, for example a copy of their passport. HoundDog were aware of the importance of the governance and control around this process to verify a candidates identity, residency and eligibility to work in the UK, knowing the risk of getting it wrong would be too costly to their business.

Dee Ward, Director of Finance and Operations said “HCS have provided us with a simple and easy to execute process that gives us the peace of mind that our controls are in place to prevent us from employing Illegal Immigrants. From a practical perspective, we know that if we are employing someone on a work permit, we need to support them in their re-application process well in advance of the permit expiry date! We are aware of the business risk we could face, both financial and operational by not having a process in place. We are always
assured that should we have any queries at all relating to the eligibility of employees HCS will be on hand – we know if we ask the question they CAN provide the answer”.