About you & your needs
Primarily, SRI-Connect seeks to understand the needs of all participants in the sustainable investment value chain and either deploy our own (technological and networking) resources to help them to meet these needs or to direct them towards others that can provide appropriate support.
SRI-CONNECT is one of the largest global networks for sustainable investment and corporate governance. Investors and analysts that engage with each other and with listed companies via the site build a reputation in the global community for a sophisticated investment-orientated approach to SRI & corporate governance.
In brief…
SRI-CONNECT helps headhunters deliver value to their clients by:
- Stimulating demand for professional executive search in SRI & CG
- Enabling headhunters build profile in the SRI & CG community
- Identifying managers, budget holders and decision-makers that may need to recruit
- Supplying tools that make it easier for headhunters to find suitable candidates
- Helping headhunters to understand the SRI industry
Headhunters upgrade to subscribe here in order to improve:
- their profile in the global SRI & CG industry
- their accesss to the industry, its individuals and their ideas
See: Subscribe to boost industry profile and access & specific benefits for headhunters
In detail…
What headhunters need to deliver...
Headhunters need to understand the emerging markets for SRI & corporate governance, to understand their clients' resourcing needs and to identify candidates that can fulfil these needs.
How SRI-CONNECT helps...
We describe below how SRI-CONNECT helps headhunters to meet these objectives and deliver value to their clients:
Stimulating market demand for headhunters
Recruitment in SRI has traditionally been undertaken on an informal ‘whom you know, whom your contacts know’ basis. This has worked in the past but will not work for the larger, more professional industry that SRI has become.
In future, the SRI industry will need to conduct its search for key executives in a more professional and structured manner. Doing so will, we believe mutually benefit employers, employees and the wider industry.
SRI-CONNECT has (see below) and will continue to advocate for this – thereby creating the context within which headhunters can grow their business. (We will not, however, do this unconditionally. Headhunters will need to demonstrate that they can deliver the added value that we believe the industry needs.)
Here are some examples of our past commentary on this subject:
- Skills & careers in SRI: 36 questions to discuss
- Skills & careers in SRI: 8 basic precepts
- Where does SRI sit: In the Front Office? Back Office? Middle Office?
- SRI recruitment: Cracking the chicken and scrambling the egg
- SRI : Not developing talent sustainably
Developing profile for headhunters
Upon registration with SRI-CONNECT, you will be added to this list of (individual) headhunters engaged in SRI / CG. Your firm should also appear on this list of headhunters and their capabilities. These listings are regularly promoted to the SRI-CONNECT community.
You should also take control of your firm’s profile and edit it via here to advertise your capabilities in this area.
Identifying managers needing search services
Most of the global SRI industry including almost all of the industry’s leaders are registered users of SRI-CONNECT. Through active participation in the community and engagement with these leaders, headhunters can stay in contact with the budget-holders in SRI & CG research and support them when these managers need to build capacity.
(Note: you cannot use SRI-CONNECT to ‘sell’ services directly – but you can ‘connect’ and engage via the blogposts that you write and discussions that pursue.)
Supplying candidates
SRI-CONNECT provides the following tools to help headhunters efficiently identify the most suitable candidates from the widest global pool:
- The Directory
- The IRRI Survey
- A jobs board.
Directory
The SRI-CONNECT Directory is a listing of <?php $db =& JFactory::getDBO();$sql_query = "";$sql_query = "SELECT Count(u.id) AS Total";$sql_query .= " FROM #__users AS u LEFT JOIN #__comprofiler AS c ON u.id = c.user_id";$sql_query .= " WHERE u.block=0 AND u.gid IN (18,19,20,21,22,23) AND c.cb_sricorg=0 AND c.approved=1 AND c.confirmed=1 AND c.cb_active = 1;";$db->setQuery($sql_query);$result = number_format($db->loadResult());echo $result;?> individuals within the global SRI & CG industry and is searchable by geography, role, specialisms and interests.
It is an essential tool for headhunters who want to include the whole scope of potential candidates in their search and also be able to refine this breadth quickly based on the desirable characteristics of candidates.
IRRI survey
The annual IRRI Survey (2017 results here) enables headhunters to understand emerging trends and needs in the market and to identify the best analysts and salespeople in the industry … as rated by their peers and customers.
Jobs board
SRI-CONNECT maintains a widely used Jobs Board with new positions advertised to a list of <?php echo $result; ?> interested individuals every week. To advertise a position that you are recruiting for simply post the details in Market Buzz here or enter the details of any job you wish to advertise here.
Understanding the industry
SRI-CONNECT provides a ‘window on the world of SRI in practice’ and therefore enables headhunters to understand the latest trends and needs within SRI and corporate governance – which is, of course, essential both to winning and executing mandates successfully.
SRI-CONNECT is one of the largest global networks for sustainable investment and corporate governance. Investors and analysts that engage with each other and with listed companies via the site build a reputation in the global community for a sophisticated investment-orientated approach to SRI & corporate governance.
In brief …
SRI-CONNECT helps SIFs deliver value to their members by:
- Enhancing the visibility of SIFs, their teams and their work within the global SRI & CG community
- Providing tools for them to complement and strengthen their ‘live and local’ networking activity with an online presence
- Enabling them to track the research and opinion that is shaping SRI and corporate governance around the world … and thence to identify emerging areas of focus and need
- Delivering an easy way for SIFs to extend their profile internationally such that they become recognised globally as the ‘go to’ organisations for expertise on their home market
In detail …
What SIFs need to deliver...
SIFs typically aim to be experts on their local market, to raise the profile of sustainable and responsible investment within it, to lobby for regulatory and fiscal frameworks that support SRI and to deliver information and networking services to their members.
How SRI-CONNECT helps
We describe below how SRI-CONNECT helps SIFs to meet these objectives and deliver value to their members:
Raise the profile of your SIF and activity – locally and globally
Posting to SRI-CONNECT’s Market Buzz enables SIFs to advertise their reports and events to the industry with the dual effect of:
- Acting as a second channel of communications to your members and to potential members within your region and
- Highlighting your activity to the global SRI/CG community outside your home market – thereby cementing your reputation as the ‘go to’ contact for expertise on your chosen market
Further, if SIFs want to demonstrate the energy of their domestic market, they can also encourage their institutional investor members to post to Market Buzz.
Add ‘online & global’ networking to ‘live and local’ activity
Online networking is a perfect complement to ‘live and local’ networking – as it keeps contact current and discussions alive between ‘in person’ meetings and events. ‘Connecting’ to key contacts within their membership and joining discussions about market trends are an easy way for SIFs to stay visible with and relevant to their members.
To make it easier for SIFs to build their networks, we have built Market Cluster pages for each market to gather key contacts, critical research and discussion points. The relevant SIF executives are highlighted at the top of each ‘Market Cluster’ page.
Track industry research and opinion
To track industry research and opinion, SIF executives can:
- Update their profiles to ensure that the most relevant research and opinion pieces are selected for your weekly research highlights email and use the buzz search facility to select topics to explore
- Read the (somewhat old but still highly relevant) discussion documents on SRI Dynamics. Also, search the buzz for subjects in their areas of SRI interest.
- Join some of these discussion groups
- Watch the SRI Diary (for major events), Events page (for events currently being advertised) and Market Buzz and the weekly email for other events of relevance to them
Extend your profile internationally
As well as posting details of published research and of events, SIFs can further inform and influence the global SRI community by writing material specifically for SRI-CONNECT. Recognising that SIFs are often time and resource-constrained, we developed the concepts of ‘bullet briefs’ to enable SIFs to share their existing expertise with the global SRI & CG community. (What is a ‘bullet brief)
First steps...
In addition to the first steps for everyone outlined here, SIF executives should specifically:
- Make sure that all members of your team have registered here with SRI-CONNECT.
- Ask one of your team to update your SIF’s profile … including with a logo
- Join the relevant ‘strategy & networking’ group for your market
- Connect with some peer SIF execs globally and with some of the leading opinion formers in your market and globally
- Update the SRI Diary 2017 with any events that you may be hosting. (Send details to
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