Custom workers for demanding clients
WBJ: How long has Accetis been active in Poland, and what kind of services do you provide here?
Franck Tourtois: Accetis International Poland was created in September 2002. Our team of 13 (including four senior consultants) specializes in five sectors of the economy: consumer goods (including media), pharmaceuticals, the large-scale manufacturing industry (with a special focus on automotive and logistics), finance (with a special focus on banking), as well as real estate and construction in Poland.
To our clients and partners we provide HR services with a core activity in: Recruitment, mainly through executive search and direct approach and coaching, through individual-based personal development programs.
Our approach makes us a dedicated business partner for our clients. We provide services which help the companies during every stage of their HR life, supporting them in dealing with issues of strengthening their teams. We help in recruiting new key people or in developing the ones already in place. We support our clients in conducting reorganisations, through the unbiased assessment of the actual situation leading to the accompaniment of individuals in making the most of their experience in and outside of the company.
What methods do you use in advising companies?
Our core competence is our ability to assess in-depth the viability and feasibility of one individual's professional projects and find the way to match these with the companies' goals, strategy and development plans. We use an unique blend of practical interviewing processes (CBI, Competency-Based Interviewing, using the STAR questioning approach) and "light" but powerful psychometric tools chosen among the world's best and adapted to the patterns and archetypes of the countries we work in.
What tools do you use to serve your clients?
We have designed a database which allows us to track every single one of our activities under a project format, which means that we follow the lives of individuals and organizations in real-time. This is a great help to match the professional projects of candidates that we have been following through a long-term relationship and the opportunities that arise in our partners' organisations. It is also a strong support for our clients because it gives an overview of the situation of the market regarding specific positions and needs. In a job market like we have currently in Poland, which is still a bit immature (strongly competitive and still driven by the relative lack of candidates especially in terms of senior managerial positions), it often helps the decision-makers within our client structures to make the right choice when it comes to specifying their needs for recruitment. In the hands of our senior consultants, these methods yield results thoroughly adapted to our clients' and partners' needs.
How are your solutions implemented?
They are phrased in a hands-on way using the common background and vocabulary we share with the companies we work for. In a world where increasingly more HR/recruitment consultancies arise and offer services, our clients have chosen professionalism and sharing of culture to outsource their key HR programs to Accetis.
