Financial Pro Solutions...

 ...adding value to human capital through engaged search, outplacement services,

coaching & EQ mentoring and consulting.

PROVIDING AN ARRAY OF ENGAGED SEARCH AND OTHER EMPLOYER FOCUSED SERVICES
Text Box: Engaged Search Making a career move can be a life-changing event. Hiring the right person starts with finding the right person. Both decisions should be a win-win situation. Let us help you make sure it does. Financial Pro Solutions, is an engaged executive search firm specializing in finding and attracting "off-market" talent serving the financial professions and disciplines nationwide. Whether you are a local, regional or national firm, regardless of your size and the scope of your brand recognition, we can help you attract exactly the talent you are seeking. What makes us different is that our approach is fully collaborative and includes working with HR, hiring managers and key executives to define the exact combination of training, experience, skill sets, work ethic EQ and prior work environments that will make a candidate successful in any given position. We will work with you to facilitate the hiring process. We treat each of our clients’ needs with personal and professional commitment to your goals and we are dedicated to presenting only the strongest candidates, each of whom will have been previously and personally vetted by us. Why an engaged search? There are variables that affect when you should use a retained firm or a contingent search firm to find the perfect candidate for the position, and yes, there is a perfect candidate for every position, often several of them.  These variables are less arguable, however, when using one of our engaged fee and guarantee models. All FinaPros searches are engaged on an exclusive basis. There are four keys elements to an engaged search:  The employer; the candidate; the job itself; and the search firm who brings it all together.  These are represented in the four stairs in our logo.  When you engage Financial Pro Solutions you are essentially getting a free consultant. What are the engaged fee and guarantee models? FinaPros is very upfront about its search fees and services. Fees are based on first year’s annual salary and any guaranteed bonuses; or upon a previously agreed-upon amount in cases in which a hire’s compensation is predominantly performance driven. Expenses are only charged when pre-authorized by you, the employer. Engaged search 25% with full 90 day replacement or 70% money-back guarantee. This is a hybrid search combining the strongest of reasons to use FinaPros©, low cost. This agreement would require a retainer of 30% of the estimated fee. The remaining 70% of the fee is due within ten days of an offer having been accepted. Engaged search 33% with 12 month no-risk performance based guarantee. This agreement requires a retainer of 25% of the estimated fee. The remained of the fee is billed in increments of 1/3 after four months, eight months and one year respectively from the date an offer is accepted and is due only if the hire had not left the firm, or had been let go for cause during each interim period. Additionally, any replacement hire would only cost the remainder of the unpaid portion of the fee, regardless of any increase in compensation over the original hire. Engaged search flat fee $20,000 with full 90 day replacement or 50% money-back guarantee. This agreement requires a retainer of 50% ($10,000). The remaining 50% of the fee is due within ten days of an offer having been accepted. This fee is only available on hires with a maximum base salary of $200,000. Unsolicited candidates 20% when submitted for consideration without any specific job order payable in full following 30 days of continuous employment, or you owe nothing, with 60 days additional replacement guarantee. FinaPros© Talent Scouts 20% payable in full following 30 days of continuous employment, or you owe nothing, with 60 days additional replacement guarantee.

Outplacement

Outplacement may be the last best investment you can make in human capital. It is the effort made by a downsizing company to help its redundant and phased-out employees reorient themselves and transition into the job market.   As tough a decision and action as it is to have to let people go, it’s not only tougher to toss them aside like a closed file, but it’s bad business as well.

 

FinaPros outplacement services benefits the employee

by positioning them to meet the challenges they will have to face in the job market in order to be competitive. 

 

BRANDING:                 Identify key strengths, core skills, significant achievements and the value they can add to their next employer.

ATTITUDE:               Remain positive, enthused and focused about the future.

ALTERNATIVES:      Open doors by helping assess where core skills and experience may have cross-over value.

CREATIVITY:           Finding the available jobs, getting to the decision makers, exploring new possibilities approaching and benefiting from their personal and professional networks and associates.

MARKETING:            Review résumés and cover letters to make sure they are up to date, eye-appealing, and will want to leave its readers wanting to know more about the person behind the paper.

SALESMANSHIP:     Interview coaching and preparation for the many interview scenarios they will hopefully face in their search.

NEGOTIATIONS:     Realistic self-valuation and negotiating fair starting compensation packages.

FOLLOW-UP:            Continued assistance to facilitate transitions from the job market back into the.

 

FinaPros outplacement services also benefits you.

While nothing can completely ameliorate the impact of losing one’s job,

knowing that outplacement services are available will improve the morale of both the employees who are slated to be let go

and those who survive the layoff.

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EMOTIONAL:            Make terminating managers’ jobs less stressful.

LITIGATION:           Outplacement reduces the likelihood of law suits, regardless of whether there is a viable action.  This is because people who are let go want to focus on moving forward.

OPEN DOOR:             Outplacement allows displaced employees to leave with a sense of dignity and greater goodwill toward your company.  As you recover from your present circumstances and begin to grow headcount once again you may want to seek out some of your best former talent.  At the very least, you will have to rely on some of those people for your reputation as a competitive employer.  FinaPros will work with each of your employees to make sure that they understand the circumstances of their respective departures from the Company and that the company is doing as much as it can to assist them.

 

How FinaPros outplacement services work.

A member of the FinaPros team will meet with the terminating manager to ensure that he or she is coached in the process of properly conducting the termination and is prepared mentally and emotionally to carry out the assignment. 

We then meet with each employee to facilitate in their respective transitions, to make sure that they are focused both mentally and emotionally, and to help them assess their skills, knowledge and experience as well as their interests, goals and needs.

We provide one-on-one assistance… 

...in developing an action plan and work with them to insure their adherence to it.

             ...to make sure their résumés and cover letters represent themselves honestly and in the best positive light.

             …to help them stay focused and positive by helping them develop their own EQ.  

...providing tips on how to find the available jobs, get to the decision makers, and be creative in their job search.

...attaining the maximize possible benefit from their personal and professional networks.

…with interview preparation, fielding questions, and “selling” themselves during the interview process.

...working with the potential employers when possible and practical to facilitate a hire.

…in valuing themselves realistically and confidently positioning themselves to negotiate a fair starting compensation package.

...preparing them for their first days and weeks on the their new jobs to best situates them for a long term opportunity.

 

For more information on our outplacement services, email us at outplacements@finapros.com, or call Hal Horowitz at 818-347-3462.

 

Consulting

 

Is your HR group connected with your hiring managers?  Are miscommunications, conflicts, egos and office politics getting in the way of hiring the best people and empowering them to do their jobs, make significant contributions, add value, and grow your company?

Have you ever hired a highly skilled candidate only to find out after joining the company and having expended time and money in the hiring process that he or she did not share your company’s core values, philosophies and commitment to excellence? 

How many times has your company extended an offer to a candidate for a job only to have it declined?  Has your company done a post mortem on that offer and the others to see if there is a reason that strong candidates are finding your offer, or perhaps even your firm as less than desirable?

Financial Pro Solutions can strategize with your HR group and hiring managers on how to identify and attract the best people for any given job.  We can work with you to review your existing hiring process to make ensure that you  identify the best person for any given job; you recognize other skills and talents in each candidate in the process so that you don’t miss an opportunity to add strength to your firm; you know where your weak links are in the interview process so that you don’t risk losing a strong candidate; and you obtain buy-in and commitment when a candidate does accept an offer.  To learn more about FinaPros’ consulting program, send an email to info@finapros.com.  A representative will contact you directly and confidentially.

 

Coaching & Mentoring

Get the best from your best, and empower the rest.

Many companies say, “Our greatest asset is our people,” but the true test of that is in the degree to which they provide empowerment and growth potential.  Your employees look to you, your management, your executive teams, and your policies for guidance through this phase of their respective careers – and to help them step up to the next.

 

FinaPros© is an EQmentor Certified Mentor and is proud to be an EQmentor Partner.

Emotional Intelligence is the foundational competency every leader needs to grow.  It is the ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  Now, together with our EQmentor partners and affiliates, FinaPros© is able to provide a full and highly innovative unique online learning environment which combines the wisdom of mentoring with the power of collaboration to provide personal and professional support and development when it is most needed, at an employees’ individual point of need.

 

The key elements of this program that makes it a continued success:

Extended learning period: Proven adult learning models over an extended periods of time.

Emotionally safe environment:  Anonymity and full confidentiality, allowing mentees to be open and truthful, without fear of embarrassment or retribution.  It is “the perfect learning experience.”

Point of need learning:  Assist with problems, issues and conflicts at the most critical time, when they occur.

Consideration of individual learning style:  One-on-one mentoring based on experiential knowledge designed by and for adults.

Experienced and knowledgeable mentors:  Seasoned professionals who have been successful in their own  careers and who pride themselves on their work ethic, and their ability to help others learn, grow and develop in their careers. 

Objective learning:  Because of the confidentiality and anonymity of EQmentor, a strong bond exists between mentors and mentees which create objective learning experiences.

Additional resources: Access to a massive repository of articles, case studies, surveys, white papers, chats, discussions and videos and other learning tools which is available 24/7, at any time, from any place. 

Quantitative results:  As a result of the economic crises of 2008-2009, two major themes emerged in the human capital space: (1) How can we do more with less and (2) we have to find less expensive, yet better ways to develop our talent so they can make better decisions.   To accurately determine the return on investment (ROI) of any training and development initiative, results need to be measured continuously through the use of various quantitative and qualitative metrics.

 

Quantitative Measures

Pre & Post EQ Assessments

Measurable goal-setting with mentor

Client/mentee job performance metrics

Activity Reports: Bi-monthly reports of activity and usage

Successful transfer of knowledge and innovative ideas from EQ Village to organization

Effectiveness of 3-5 action items to address the company challenge

 

Qualitative Measures

Satisfaction surveys during subscription period

End-of-subscription survey report

Mentor’s evaluation and feedback

             The benefits of EQmentor:

 

Full utilization of newly-learned emotional competencies to enhance projects at work, making a clear connection between emotional intelligence and business results.

Mentees are able to increase their individual EQ by improving the components of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, motivation, and social interaction using mentors and an ever growing toolkit of online aids, personal surveys, articles, white papers, chats and discussions.

The highest quality mentoring for your employees without having to create your own internal mentoring program.

The ability to identify your future leaders and be better equipped to close the leadership gap through more effective succession planning and increasing leadership effectiveness.

TIME for your company’s leaders to focus on your core business rather than coaching associates, therefore improving both efficiencies and productivity.

The EQ Village also enables your organization to expand its reach beyond your “four walls” and participate in a high quality, professional and cross-industry collaborative environment.

EQmentor enables your employees to have direct input into their individual learning needs, learning what they need to learn and when they need to learn it.”

Through EQmentor, you will realize other benefits, including: better recruitment and retention of skilled staff, reduced turnover costs, reduced training costs, improved communications, improved delivery of service, increased productivity and performance, and enhanced development of human capital.

 Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom – when you need it!

To learn more about learning from EQmentor, email or call us to arrange a direct and confidential introduction for your firm.
Text Box: Outplacement Text Box: OUR MISSION is to further our clients' success by identifying individuals of uncommon ability to whom they might not otherwise have access, and who will, in turn, make a valued contribution to their goals.

With over 40 years of combined experience in finance and recruiting, FinaPros© has a full slate of employer focused solutions to help you define, built and retain the best possible financial team.  In accounting, budgeting & finance, treasury, banking, cash management, sales, operations or at the top of your leadership, as a specialist in financial recruiting we will work with you under a variety of programs designed to meet your specific needs.