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6/22/2017 Cant sponsoror wont sponsor?

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Cant sponsoror wont sponsor?


Published onJune 22, 2017

Dan McCarthy
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Managing Director, One Search

Isitreallyallthatdifficulttobeabletosponsorforeignnationalstoworkin
theUK?

If only I could adequately express to you my frustration as a recruiter when I have


a brilliant candidate for a role but cannot put them forward because my client is
unable to offer sponsorship.Be it the Canadian woman in Toronto who has done
Infra deals all over the world but wants to get to London to ply her trade at the
heart of the Infra investment world, or the Chinese guy held hostage at one of the
state banks London Branch on an inter-company transfer, if they are the best
candidate for the position it hurts me not to be able to place them in the role.

In my fteen years in recruitment I have overseen a considerable number of


placements which required, and successfully achieved, sponsorship signed off by
the UK Home Ofce.Some have been very senior hires, with a salary well in
excess of the 150k mark beyond which eligibility is basically a formality. But
even the much more junior ones never took that long, and seemed far less
complicated than HR departments wanted me to believe they would be.

Over the last few years, though, I have noted a really marked dip in the number of
banks/ investors/ advisers willing to sponsor candidates.Wedontoffer

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sponsorship,Imafraid has been propelled into the top 3 most popular HR


Business Partner phrases (Ill tell you the other 2 another time) and line managers
have given up trying to ght their corner against the authority of the HR machine
and the bureaucracy (or so they are told) of the UK Government process.

For some time now, I have been threatening to run my own test case. Little old
One Search v the world lets see if it really is that difcult to secure the right to
sponsor foreign nationals. In fact Ive been saying for years I was going to do it
(every time we go into the market for experienced recruitment consultants and
realise not only how competitive it is, but also how one-dimensional) but other
important projects kept getting in the way.Monitoring and responding to every
single Edwin Jonez LinkedIn post is a full-time job in itself, and thats before we
get into the recent outrage when it was discovered that the latest addition to the
McCarthy clans Newfoundland pack had only been receiving half the
recommended dosage of worming cream for a dog of his weight.

It was in April that I met a bright and ambitious young American woman and
nally decided to stop ponticating and start doing. She had a highly impressive
background and although she could have gone in any number of career directions,
she gave me brilliant answers as to why she wanted to be a recruiter (see my
previously published Whats wrong with Recruitment Consultants? for an
explanation of this strange phenomenon).I knew I had to give it a try, or Id always
regret it.

So I called my lawyers (the brilliant SA Law, in case youre wondering) who not
only helped One Search attain our proud 100% record against a few rogue rms
who were under the impression that recruitment was a charity enterprise, but who
also ran humiliating rings around the management company behind the
development on which I reside, bamboozling them with their own Rent Charge

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Deed when they took me to task over the impressive height of my beloved
Leylandii.

Expecting to be overwhelmed by a blizzard of problems and box-ticking, I was


amazed when Liam the Lawyer matter-of-factly told me that this should not be too
much of a problem.In fact, for just over 3k he could run the whole process for
me.This one-off fee would (once approved by the Home Ofce) secure me a quota
of slots (in my case 3, but you can ask for a sensible number in line with the size of
your rm) which, when I want to ll with a suitable candidate, I would just have to
ll in a simple application in each case and pay the c1k admin fee.

It was a no-brainer, and I moved ahead at full steam. I had to ll in a questionnaire


about myself and the company, and provide a bunch of information on our
company and our plans. Id say it took me about two hours in total. A few days
later, Liam the Lawyer was sitting next to me at my desk here at One Search
Towers, ready to hit send on the ofcial application. It has to be sent from your
registered ofce, and the Home Ofce checks the IP-address as part of the process
of conrming your legitimacy as a company. I hit send on 3rd May 2017.

On 4th June 2017 I received the reply.We had been successful. We could go ahead
and sponsor the American woman. And two others (and we are now in the process
of looking for two more talented recruiters from around the globe). As simple as
that.For a total investment of just over 6 K I can now employ 3 super talented
foreigners, keeping my business diverse and giving us a competitive edge in the
very competitive inter-recruitment company transfer market.

So my message to all my clients, and to all of you out there who thought this would
be too difcult, too complicated, a waste of time, my message to all of you line
managers or the Business Partners who run a mile as soon as you hear the S

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word;Its not that difcult. If I can do it if little old One Search Ltd can do it
anyone can do it.

Incaseanyonethoughtthiswassomesortofselfhelpmanualforhapless
HRprofessionalsitwasnt.Itwasablatantplug(Iknownootherway)
fortalentedandexperienced(atleast3years+please)recruiters(Idont
carewhatdisciplineIjustcarethatyouhavelife,soul,banter,andno
peskynag,please,BabyJesus,nopinkyring)whowanttoworkin
LondonforalivelyandambitiousMayfairbasedInfrastructure&Energy
Financerecruitmentspecialist.WeareveryinterestedinInfra/Energy
professionalslookingtomoveintorecruitment.Weoffertopremuneration,
topbanterandsponsorship!

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