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Temporary Recruitment: Senior Interims

Temporary Recruitment: Senior Interims

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During periods of change and leadership transition, maintaining an air of continuity and strong senior management can be tantamount to organisational success.

To this end, we have seen a recent rise in organisations seeking senior interim placements to help maintain equilibrium during change processes.

Perhaps even more interestingly, we have seen a rise in the number of professional interims, candidates who carve a highly successful career in being the point of call for companies in immediate need for an experienced individual to ‘man the fort’ whilst a permanent solution can be found.

In our experience, engaging with a senior professional interim can be of great benefit to organisations, for several reasons:

The most important being that organisations can tap into a breadth of professional expertise, gained from assignments across of plethora of industries; and such professionals also often have a proven ability in ‘hitting the ground running’, which can minimise the lapse time often felt when a previous incumbent leaves, and the lengthy recruitment and induction process required for a permanent replacement.

Professional interims are often much clearer in their approach and purpose, and thus prioritise what must be achieved within a set and agreed on timeline likewise, professional interims have often gained sufficient experience to have a proven ability in achieving similar goals and objectives.

Organisations often gain access to a much broader skill set, which professional interims are often happy to provide, meaning companies often gain much more than they expected from this interim placement.

To discuss your Executive interim needs, please get in contact.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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