Essence Succeed
Are you experiencing financial pressures?
Do you need to ensure that you recruit the best people?
Do you need to grow your own talent?
Essence Consulting understands your industry and has developed Essence Succeed software that's time saving, simple and effective, to assess & manage staff competencies and identify potential new recruits - all at the touch of a button. Please read on for a list of features and benefits or click here to see a few examples.
Our clients are informing us that with less cash to spend, they have to make sure they get the best return on investment in talent management. They cannot afford to recruit the wrong people, fail to develop existing talent or to lose high achievers:
The average recruitment cost of filling a vacancy per employee is £4,000, increasing to £6,125 when organisations are also calculating the associated labour turnover costs, which has to be paid out each time the wrong person is recruited
Essence Succeed is a unique software solution to set and measure staff competencies; an essential aid to the management and recruitment of staff. It is a complete software solution, designed to allow you to set the benchmarks that matter to your organisation...helping to make your job easier!
Essence Succeed is a complete software solution designed to allow you to set the benchmarks that matter to your organisation:
Recruitment - allows you to profile your existing team and recruit the right people to compliment your team's skills set and style of working.
Development - allows you to ensure that your people get the right training and development opportunities to maximise their performance.
Retention - enables you to identify rising stars and develop career pathways to ensure that your organisation grows its own talent
What our clients say about us
'We are using Essence Succeed to ensure that we are developing our people in the right areas. We have found the software is very easy to use and remote access is a particular benefit, as I am able to look at the competency profiles and performance of my staff from any location. We found that is has already paid for itself, as it helped us to recruit the right people the first time around. I am also pleased to say that I can identify the best team to resource projects quickly and easily. The ongoing support provided by Essence Consulting in helping us to get the most from our new system is first class.'
Steve John, Director of Sagari Ltd.
'When we started using Essence Succeed, we were completely new to using competencies. Although we'd liked the idea of using them, we'd been put off after having a look at other competency systems that were IT-based and needed to be integrated with our IT systems. It was important for us to have a system that we could get up and running with quickly and Essence did just this. Now we wish we'd started using the system sooner as it's saved us a significant amount of money in recruitment and development costs and our staff turnover has reduced, so that we're beating our targets on staff retention. We would recommend Essence Succeed to anyone considering using an online competency system.'
Katja Hammond, CEO & Founder of Ideal Venues Ltd.
'As a company that takes staff appraisals very seriously, we used to spend a lot of time preparing and analysing them each quarter and the task became quite laborious, with a lot of paper used in the process. We now have a system that saves us time and money and we couldn't be more pleased with it! One of the great features of the system is that you can email staff with a link to their assessment, which they can complete in their own time and once it's done, you can analyse the results against their peer and manager assessments. All the results are presented in an easy to use format. Although initially taken on with appraisals in mind, we are now using the system in the recruitment process and will shortly start emailing job applicants before they come for interview to ensure that we're only considering the candidates most suitable for the job.'
Alistair Veness, Director of Calico Print Solutions
'Essence Succeed is a valuable tool that enables us to recruit and develop the best people for our organisation. Essence Consulting worked with us to streamline our management processes and to develop the right competencies that suit us. We used it in the first instance to help with a management restructure and are now rolling it out the next tier of staff.'
John Makinson-Sanders, East Lindsey District Council
'This process has raised the ability of officers to effectively manage their performance within the resources available to them as well as identifying mismatched in targets and resources. There is now a wider understanding of the impact individual areas have on the achievement of the corporate goals. The work that was undertaken has resulted not only in a high quality performance management system, but an ownership of the system by managers and staff, coupled with a more focussed approach to achievement.'
Graham Harris, Managing Director of Dartford Borough Council
