international employment consultancy
RECENT PROJECTS
1. What is the level of salary required for
a Sales Manager based in Amsterdam but remotely reporting to Brazil in
the food industry. The office in Amsterdam has 6 staff covering Europe.
We did a quick salary survey, and contacted an advisor is Amsterdam. We decided the base salary was OK, even a little generous but that the bonus plan needed serious revision.
2. Do you know of a good recruitment consultancy specialising in networks/technical/ desktop to desktop staff in UK?
We recommended three such agencies.
3. Can you provide a salary program for our staff in 6 European countries, plus Australia?
This was a major project: we provided a salary program with a unified grade structure but different levels of salary in each country. Plus a breakdown of social charges plus a spreadsheet of legal and market practice, employment regulations, and benefits.
4. Are there any good online recruitment sites in UK?
We advised the answer to this but with some scepticism as we don’t think any of them are particularly good.
5. Can you provide Employee Handbooks for USA, Denmark and Netherlands?
We provided these to a template given to us by the company.
6. What is the lease price of a car suitable for an executive in France type – Citroen Xantia, BMW 3 series, Audi 400 Peugeot 406?
We provided a spreadsheet of the type of cars given to various types of executives in 6 countries in Europe. We supplemented this with information about the level of car allowance given.
7. Do you have details of cost efficient health care providers –medical/dental in South Africa?
We provided the names of two insurance companies who deal in private health insurance in Johannesburg and engaged in correspondence to the point of subscription..
8. We are a company that is in fact a supplier of HR services. We presently operate only in USA and one country in Europe. Could you be the European arm of this service? You would have to respond to queries, set up companies and payrolls and all would have to be coursed through us to imply we are actually providing the service to the client.
We have worked with this company for 2 years now although in fact we aid them in Asia and Mexico more than in Europe.
9. Our Country Managers in Brazil/ Mexico/UK are grumbling about their salaries. Can you do a check on the salary levels ?
We provided a salary review from published sources and from our own database.
10. We are recruiting a Country Manager in Germany and he wants a car allowance instead of a car. Can you tell me the levels applicable to this sort of job ?
We provided this information from our database.
11. We have a small tech office in Paris. Twice the staff have complained in writing about their salary levels which do look extremely low: but our Country manager in France insists that the salaries are benchmarked and correct.
We spent a day there, interviewed all the French workshop staff and issed a report which gave a modest rise in salaries but had other recommendations which met the employees requirements.
12. We want to hire an employee in Hong Kong . Please can you fix him up with the relevant insurances and arrange for an outsourced payroll administration.
This was done using a Hong Kong based broker for the insurance and a local payroll administrator.
13. We want to employ an employee in France. We have sent him a job offer on our UK model. Can you fix up insurance and payroll provision.
We have done this and in fact changed the job offer into a French base one.
14. We employ staff in several European countries. They all pay social charges in Switzerland but are often taxable in the countries where they are based. Can you arrange for payroll deductions to be done in all these countries.
We are in the process of arranging this.
15. We are looking for a payroll company to which to outsource our payroll in Philippines We are presently charged too much (in our opinion) for payroll services from one of the big accountants.
We recommended a payroll provider in Philippines, and have had excellent success.
16. I have a small unquoted company and want to give shares to my senior staff.
We are in the process of developing an employee share plan which will use a Jersey based Trust.
17. We have recently taken over a company and I have to make a fair number of senior staff redundant in Europe. What are their rights, what do other companies do and what are the pitfalls ?
We have developed a document which shows legal and market related severance payments throughout the world.
18. If I give you a list of staff , job titles and salaries can you do a benchmarking exercise ?
We are in telecommunications.We undertook a benchmark study from our own database, and will monitor permanently the salary market for this company.
19. We want a survey among our competitors in the luxury goods industry in 4 countries.
Unfortunately we didn’t get the job! O.R.C got it.
20. We have 4 staff in a semiconductor sales office in UK . Please can you advise the market salary.
We provided this but the client wasn’t too happy with the result ! He would never tell us if the salaries we came up with wee wildly high or extremely low…
We did a quick salary survey, and contacted an advisor is Amsterdam. We decided the base salary was OK, even a little generous but that the bonus plan needed serious revision.
2. Do you know of a good recruitment consultancy specialising in networks/technical/ desktop to desktop staff in UK?
We recommended three such agencies.
3. Can you provide a salary program for our staff in 6 European countries, plus Australia?
This was a major project: we provided a salary program with a unified grade structure but different levels of salary in each country. Plus a breakdown of social charges plus a spreadsheet of legal and market practice, employment regulations, and benefits.
4. Are there any good online recruitment sites in UK?
We advised the answer to this but with some scepticism as we don’t think any of them are particularly good.
5. Can you provide Employee Handbooks for USA, Denmark and Netherlands?
We provided these to a template given to us by the company.
6. What is the lease price of a car suitable for an executive in France type – Citroen Xantia, BMW 3 series, Audi 400 Peugeot 406?
We provided a spreadsheet of the type of cars given to various types of executives in 6 countries in Europe. We supplemented this with information about the level of car allowance given.
7. Do you have details of cost efficient health care providers –medical/dental in South Africa?
We provided the names of two insurance companies who deal in private health insurance in Johannesburg and engaged in correspondence to the point of subscription..
8. We are a company that is in fact a supplier of HR services. We presently operate only in USA and one country in Europe. Could you be the European arm of this service? You would have to respond to queries, set up companies and payrolls and all would have to be coursed through us to imply we are actually providing the service to the client.
We have worked with this company for 2 years now although in fact we aid them in Asia and Mexico more than in Europe.
9. Our Country Managers in Brazil/ Mexico/UK are grumbling about their salaries. Can you do a check on the salary levels ?
We provided a salary review from published sources and from our own database.
10. We are recruiting a Country Manager in Germany and he wants a car allowance instead of a car. Can you tell me the levels applicable to this sort of job ?
We provided this information from our database.
11. We have a small tech office in Paris. Twice the staff have complained in writing about their salary levels which do look extremely low: but our Country manager in France insists that the salaries are benchmarked and correct.
We spent a day there, interviewed all the French workshop staff and issed a report which gave a modest rise in salaries but had other recommendations which met the employees requirements.
12. We want to hire an employee in Hong Kong . Please can you fix him up with the relevant insurances and arrange for an outsourced payroll administration.
This was done using a Hong Kong based broker for the insurance and a local payroll administrator.
13. We want to employ an employee in France. We have sent him a job offer on our UK model. Can you fix up insurance and payroll provision.
We have done this and in fact changed the job offer into a French base one.
14. We employ staff in several European countries. They all pay social charges in Switzerland but are often taxable in the countries where they are based. Can you arrange for payroll deductions to be done in all these countries.
We are in the process of arranging this.
15. We are looking for a payroll company to which to outsource our payroll in Philippines We are presently charged too much (in our opinion) for payroll services from one of the big accountants.
We recommended a payroll provider in Philippines, and have had excellent success.
16. I have a small unquoted company and want to give shares to my senior staff.
We are in the process of developing an employee share plan which will use a Jersey based Trust.
17. We have recently taken over a company and I have to make a fair number of senior staff redundant in Europe. What are their rights, what do other companies do and what are the pitfalls ?
We have developed a document which shows legal and market related severance payments throughout the world.
18. If I give you a list of staff , job titles and salaries can you do a benchmarking exercise ?
We are in telecommunications.We undertook a benchmark study from our own database, and will monitor permanently the salary market for this company.
19. We want a survey among our competitors in the luxury goods industry in 4 countries.
Unfortunately we didn’t get the job! O.R.C got it.
20. We have 4 staff in a semiconductor sales office in UK . Please can you advise the market salary.
We provided this but the client wasn’t too happy with the result ! He would never tell us if the salaries we came up with wee wildly high or extremely low…
