Role specification
We provide tools and guidance on identifying the highest requirements for key appointments and ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned before recruitment processes kick off – and then follow on tools to screen shortlisted candidates.
Why is this important?
Vague or incomplete role specifications make it hard for head-hunters to search efficiently for qualified candidates and mean that interviews and other selection methods are likely to be less focused.
Why can it be difficult?
Writing well-structured and sufficiently comprehensive specifications is hard work both because extracting what we know about role requirements onto a blank sheet of paper is taxing but also because different stakeholders tend to hold various sets of priorities.
How do investors and boards achieve success in this area?
Choosing from lists of relevant questions about objectives, necessary experience, functional skills, cross-functional skills, and personal attributes helps key stakeholders on the hiring side to express what they most value – and lets them identify where there may be differences of view.
That improves both efficiency and effectiveness.
How can Catalysis improve outcomes?
We have built on-line tools which cover twelve of the most frequently needed roles, including Chair, CEO, FD, COO, Sales and Marketing, CTO, HRD etc. Those take about 12 minutes to complete and we then guide you through the results and help you synthesise the key conclusions.
Later, when a short list has been created, candidates can complete a similar questionnaire which allows them to be compared and contrasted against the key requirements which allows interviewers to prepare properly for final discussions.
Our track record
We started testing these tools with friends during 2020 and have used them about 25 times since then, so they are now well honed.
