Drake Former Military Division

GLOBAL
RECRUITMENT
SOLUTIONS
PEOPLE | PRODUCTIVITY | PERFORMANCE

INCREASING THE RETURN ON YOUR
HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT
An integrated and comprehensive approach to HR vastly
improves the productivity and profitability of any organisation.
When neglected, issues such as turnover, absenteeism, reduced
employee engagement and productivity also have a significant
impact.
In order to truly maximise the potential of your people, they must
be engaged throughout the employee life-cycle, commencing at
the recruitment stage. The Drake suite of Talent Management
Solutions enable our clients to increase the productivity,
performance and profitability of their business.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE
Drake Talent Management Solutions
A range of customised products,
technologies and consultancy services
that cover every aspect of HR and
workforce management, including:
• Onboarding and Orientation
• Behavioural Assessments
• Professional Development
• Workforce and Succession Planning
• Skills Assessments
• Performance Management
• Team Building Workshops
• Engagement Surveys
• HR Consulting
• Learning Management Systems
• Outplacement Services
• Exit Interviews
Managed Services
Drake Managed Services offers a fully bespoke, consultative
solution to managing all or part of a workforce across single
or multi-site operations. We utilise our expertise in workforce
management and analyse workflow dynamics to ensure
maximum productivity and profitability.
Permanent Recruitment
Drake Recruitment Services provides permanent staffing across
all job sectors for both management and non-management
positions. We work with you to understand your corporate
strategy, objectives and workplace environment then analyse
data that identifies the key skills, knowledge and behaviours
required for each role.
Executive Search
Drake Executive provides executive level placements across all
industries. We have expert consultants operating in specialised
verticals providing in-depth knowledge to the recruitment
process.
Industrial Workers
Drake Industrial provides temporary staff with the trade and
technical skills required in sectors such as ports, manufacturing,
engineering, warehousing and distribution.
Nursing and Healthcare
Drake Medox encompasses both permanent and temporary
recruitment in the Health and Medical industries. Roles include
nurses, clinical professionals and healthcare assistants through
to administrative staff.

LET US FIND YOUR NEXT
TOP PERFORMER
Drake International provides permanent staffing across all job
sectors for both management and non-management roles. Our
expert consultants operate in specialised verticals, providing
support and in-depth knowledge to the recruitment process.
Hiring the right talent for your organisation is critical. Research
indicates poor hirings can significantly cost your organisation
through lost productivity, training, and the negative impact to
staff morale.
Why work with Drake?
• We identify top performers through our suite of behavioural
assessments and interviewing techniques, in turn uncovering
high-risk candidates
• We reduce time-to-hire, minimising impact to business
operations
• We reduce the risk of poor hiring decisions
12STEPS
TO
SELECTION
SUCCESS
SOURCING TOP TALENT IS
NOT A MATTER OF GOOD
LUCK. IT’S A MATTER OF
CONSISTENTLY APPLYING
AN EFFECTIVE HIRING
PROCESS
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Drake has access to the best candidates in the
market. With active relationships within
the passive candidate market, we are also
able to draw and attract applicants that
would otherwise not be available to
in-house recruitment teams.
We have developed an effective
12 step hiring process for
ensuring every candidate is
a suitable match.
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Evaluate Your Needs
Create a job specification and evaluate your working environment
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After Placement Service
Provide assistance by
monitoring new employee’s
progress during trial period
Offer Negotiation
Assist with offer presentation and
negotiation
Final Shortlist of Candidates
Presentation of our top performer
candidates and consultation on final
selection
P3 Assessment
Conduct a behavioural assessment of the candidates to
understand their personal strengths, leadership style, decisionmaking
style, energy level, motivational needs and stress levels
Interview
Develop behavioural interview questions to distinguish top performers from
counterfeit candidates
Top Performer Profile
Uncover the skills, knowledge, and behaviours of successful individuals in similar roles within your
organisation
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Reference and Background Checks
Verify employment history and background, including
criminal and credit checks
Assess Skills
Validate the candidate’s background with ability, aptitude, and
occupational skills testing, in addition to desktop applications testing
(if required)
Screen
Pre-qualify candidates to develop a shortlist of top performers
Candidate Sourcing
Source candidates through our internal national and global talent pool, traditional media, social
media and our specialist referral network
Job Profile
Formulate a detailed job description

FLEXIBLE STAFFING:
BALANCE YOUR WORKFORCE AND YOUR WORKLOAD
OUR APPROACH
When a request for staff is made, Drake’s
selection and placement service ensures
the best person with the required skills
and attributes is provided.
Personalised Service: Each client has a
dedicated customer service consultant at
Drake. Your consultant will work with you
to place the person most suited to your
needs, monitor their progress and seek
post-assignment feedback from you.
Extensive Search Capability: Drake has
developed an extensive database with
resources across the United Kingdom
from which we can select the right
candidate for your needs, in conjunction
with other forms of advertising.
An Ethical Approach: Drake is a member
of the Recruitment & Employment
Confederation (REC) and we ensure we
comply with their code of ethics at all
times.
Efficient organisations only employ enough permanent staff to
meet their standard operational requirements. They can then
balance their workforce to meet peak workload demands with
temporary staff, saving on overall permanent headcount cost.
The benefits to an organisation using Drake Flexible Staffing
Solutions include:
• 24/7 access during peak demand periods
• Reduced full-time headcount costs to meet operational and
seasonal requirements
• Maintaining productivity by having access to experienced
and qualified staffing when skills shortages occur
• Our staff are always on hand to provide help and support
whenever you need them
• A guarantee that if you are not happy with the person
provided within their first 4 hours of work they will be
replaced free of charge
• The right mix of permanent, temporary, full-time and parttime
staff
Features of Drake Flexible Staffing
The need for flexible staffing can occur with little to no warning,
and our staff are available on-call, with the technological support
to help you to ramp up to meet your staffing requirements
whenever you need it.
Quality Assured Temporary Staff
Drake performs a rigorous process of quality checks for every
new worker to ensure they have the qualifications, skills and
entitlements to work in their nominated job function.
Drake is proud to be ISO 9000 accredited, which demonstrates
our commitment to the quality of our processes. This ensures a
uniform delivery of staff, no matter where our clients are located.
Staff must undertake and pass a number of assessments to
register with Drake, such as:
• Skills and knowledge tests
• Verification of experience
• Health and Safety tests

A MORE COMPLETE,
EFFECTIVE HIRING PROCESS
LEARNING THE TRUTH ONCE IT’S TOO
LATE - NOW, THAT’S THE PROBLEM.
“87% OF JOB FAILURES ARE DUE TO PERSONALITY, NOT ABILITY”
It is important that both the organisation and the
employee know what they want to get out of a
job. Yet, unknown to most managers, attracting
and retaining good staff actually begins during the
recruitment phase.
A key challenge during recruitment is differentiating
candidates who do well in interviews from
candidates who will do well in the actual position.
Often they can be mutually exclusive.
The goal for any recruitment strategy should be
to attract a top performer who will reach a higher
level of productivity in a shorter time-frame and,
ultimately, stay with your company for a long time.
THE PRODUCT
Drake’s Predictive Performance Profiling Solution
(P3) provides employers with objective, sciencebased,
behavioural and personality profiles.
For job candidates, their Drake P3 report lets
employers understand their personal strengths,
leadership style, decision-making style, energy level,
motivational needs and stress levels – insights that
are not usually learned through the application and
interview process.
Uniquely, Drake P3 also forms part of a more
complete hiring regime which helps you to select
and hire the best candidate the first time – the
candidate with real top-performer potential.
THE PROPOSITION
Predicting the behaviour and personality of potential
candidates against the traits of your existing top
performers – before you make a job offer – is exactly
what you want to do.
That’s the proven promise of Drake P3. It takes
the guesswork out of predicting performance,
personality and behavioural compatibility with the
job at hand.
Using Drake P3, you can develop a role profile by
having your company’s top performers complete an
online P3 survey.
The profile will identify specific and common
personality and behaviour traits among your top
performers. Similarly, potential candidates can also
take a P3 survey. Their answers, and other data, can
be matched against that of your top performers to
ensure the best fit.
Simply put, the better the fit, the better the hire
Drake P3 is an invaluable tool which allows you to build a role
profile around the skills, knowledge and behaviour of your top
performers.
P3 will match potential candidates to this role profile and
distinguish them as future key contributors in your organisation.
Other interviewing techniques and assessments can clarify
candidates who perform the job well, but P3 identifies and
distinguishes the key behavioural tendencies necessary for
them to be successful in their jobs and the unique organisation
which they are entering.
DRAKE P3 MEASURES THE 4 KEY PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT
IMPACT A PERSON’S PERFORMANCE IN THE WORKPLACE
DRAKE P3 BENEFITS
• Reduce turnover
and lower employee
acquisition costs
• Increase productivity
• Improve quality of
communication
• Increase the effectiveness
of training initiatives
• Reduce the costs of
training and orientation
• Develop a motivated,
focused team
• Improve retention
strategy
• Maintain a long-term
productive team
environment

WHAT QUALITIES DO FORMER MILITARY
PERSONNEL OFFER YOUR BUSINESS?
LOYALTY
Military personnel bring with them an
intrinsic understanding of how loyalty adds
to team proficiency and builds trust in a work
environment.
For business leaders looking to make a
thoughtful long-term investment in an
employee, military personnel can often
outperform other candidates as proven team
players.
RELIABILITY
The cost of employee turnover can be a
considerable factor for any business.
Through military service, training, and lifestyle,
Former Military Personnel will typically have
an ingrained commitment and work ethic that
would add value to any oganisation.
PRODUCTIVITY FOCUS
Military Personnel have been trained to
work toward efficiency, ask for guidance
when needed and exercise self-discipline in
professional settings.
If you’re actively building a corporate culture of
increased productivity and strong motivation,
military candidates should be considered, not
only for their hard skills, but also for the soft
skills they bring with them to civilian business
settings.
DIVERSE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Military personnel understand that good
communication needs to be flexible to be
able to connect with a diverse audience.
Trained in effective writing and professional
communications, military personnel know that
being successful in today’s world means being
able to communicate accurately and efficiently
with people from all walks of life.
Add a Unique Skill Set to Your Workforce
Employers today are becoming increasingly aware of the unique
attributes and skills that Former Military Personnel can bring to
any organisation.
Not only do they possess a range of highly sought-after vocational
skills, service leavers also have a commendable mindset and
attitude that is valuable to any business.
Your Recruitment Team
Our Former Military division has the unique blend of industry
leading, experienced recruitment professionals and former
military personnel with a wealth of military and commercial
experience. As a result, our team understand the different job
roles and skill sets that exist in the military and where they align
within the civilian workplace.
We understand the complexities of both arenas and are able
to match the best candidate with the best client, by speaking
and understanding both ‘languages’ we can aid both clients and
candidates alike.
Our Candidates
Our talent pool comprises not only service personnel making
the transition from military to civilian life, but also those that
have left the military previously and gained valuable experience
in a myriad of sectors in the commercial arena.
Many of our former military candidates still have access
to funding provided by the MOD to gain civilian training,
qualifications and credentials in a multitude of subjects for up
to five years after they have left the military - a valuable asset to
any potential employer in an ever demanding financial climate.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS AND
CANDIDATES SAY ABOUT US
I would encourage any military personnel in their last 6
months of service to visit Drake International. Why?
The company have an extensive network providing a high
volume of opportunities, they are professional, genuine and
with a healthy mix of ex RM and civilian expertise, they are
best placed to help you find employment.
Simon Lockley, Amazon
Former Royal Marine
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The Drake International Group of Companies are global specialists in the field of human
resources, performance improvement, consultative management, permanent and
temporary staffing and technology solutions. Established in Canada in 1951, Drake has
multiple enterprises in 12 Countries around the world and also deliver testing and HR
services under other brands in another 106 Countries.
OFFICE LOCATIONS
UNITED KINGDOM
INTERNATIONAL
DEVON & CORNWALL
PURFLEET
AUSTRALIA
PHILIPPINES
EAST MIDLANDS
STAMFORD BRIDGE
CANADA
SINGAPORE
HARROW
SWANSEA
HONG KONG
SOUTH AFRICA
LONDON NANNY
WEMBLEY
NEW ZEALAND
UNITED STATES
PICKERING
YORK
UK NATIONAL SPECIALIST DIVISIONS
FORMER MILITARY PERSONNEL
PEOPLE | PRODUCTIVITY | PERFORMANCE
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