Peter Barber has a significant network of contacts in the Australian market and with a particular focus on Melbourne. These contacts may have dealt with Peter initially as a candidate or as a client and over the course of a professional’s careers they will likely wear both hats at least once.
Our ability to tap into the relevant candidate community for a role springs from Peter’s experience in the market. If Peter doesn’t know a candidate directly, it is likely that he will know someone who does. This is the benefit of experience and being widely regarded as a trusted advisor.
We supplement our existing network with the use of social media and advertising online or in print. In our experience, a well-drafted and placed advertisement will bring to the fore passive candidates who may be known to us and have changed their skill-set or experience in some way since our last contact. Further, it will attract candidates with whom we may not yet have dealt including those returning from overseas or moving from interstate.
We are also highly adept at mapping the market for particular skills, experience and personal approach. This research is undertaken formally for assignments and informally as a matter of course in the way we run our business.
For Candidates
Our vision is to be a pivotal, trusted advisor for our clients and our candidates for the long-term. In engaging our firm, you are affording us the privilege of helping you grow your career. We take that task very seriously. Our strength is that we know our market very well and what we don’t know we can typically find out but also that we understand from experience that in the course of a career, candidates become clients and clients become candidates.
Barber People has been established with a number of guiding principles in mind. These include our values of trust, empathy, excellence and enjoyment and extend to the fact that Peter Barber is in this field of work for the long-term.
We enjoy working with talented people to help shape careers; not just to place someone in a job for now. We like giving advice about job-types, career strategy, corporate cultures and the whole gamut associated with knowing about our topic and we don’t expect every phone call to make us money. What we do hope is that we add some value to the candidate at each contact with them.