At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates, we stay abreast of regulatory and market changes, and of financial services best practices, so we thoroughly understand the products, risks and culture. This means we won't waste your time - either as a hiring manager or a candidate - with resumes or jobs that aren't appropriate for your particular needs.
Our focus is on risk management and strategy recruiting and consulting. Our clients include financial institutions, insurance companies, asset managers, hedge funds and professional service providers.
We place senior executives as well as more junior candidates (3+ years), with skills in strategy, financial engineering, and all areas of risk management and modeling.
We are a woman-owned small business.
Please see recruiter biographies and our code of ethics and standards guidelines below.
At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we adhere strictly to Code of Ethics, adapted from the Code of Ethics of the Association of Executive Search Consultants. We are committed to maintaining the highest degree of ethics in all our dealings, with clients, candidates, contractors, sub-contractors and the general public, as follows:
- Professionalism: We conduct our activities in a manner that reflects favorably on the profession of executive recruiting.
- Integrity: We conduct business activities with integrity and avoid conduct that is deceptive or misleading.
- Competence: We perform all search consulting assignments competently, and with an appropriate degree of knowledge, thoroughness and urgency.
- Objectivity: We exercise objective and impartial judgment in each search consulting assignment, giving due consideration to all relevant facts.
- Accuracy: We strive to be accurate in all communications with clients and candidates and encourage them to exchange relevant and accurate information.
- Conflicts of Interest: We avoid, or resolve through disclosure and waiver, any conflicts of interest.
- Confidentiality: We respect confidential information entrusted to us by clients and candidates.
- Loyalty: Serve our clients loyally and protect client interests when performing assignments.
- Equal Opportunity: We support
equal opportunity in employment and objectively evaluate all qualified
candidates.
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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES
At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we adhere strictly to these Professional Practice Guidelines, adapted from the Professional Practice Guidelines of the Association of Executive Search Consultants.
Client Relations
Candidate Relations
Contractor Relations
Diversity and Inclusion
Client Relations
We partner with our clients consultatively to aid in the selection of institutional leaders. The main cornerstones of our relationships with clients are mutual trust, bilateral responsiveness, and a commitment to transparency and candor by both parties. We always execute a comprehensive written search agreement with our clients.
A. Accepting Client Assignments
Outstanding client service begins with a full understanding of the client organization, its business needs and the position to be filled. At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates, we commit to:
- Accept only assignments we are qualified to undertake based on our knowledge of the client's needs and our ability to perform the specific assignment.
- Identify rigorously and disclose promptly any conflicts of interest and accept such assignments only if all affected parties have expressly agreed to waive any conflict.
- Develop an understanding with the client that, among other things, makes clear the organizational entity that is defined as the client organization, specifies fees and expenses to be charged, and stipulates ongoing assurances or guarantees relating to fulfillment of the assignment.
- Agree with the client concerning any restrictions or other related policies that govern when and how Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates may recruit from the defined client organization in the future.
- Agree with the client on what information about the position in question will be made available to candidates and sources during the search, when this information will be released, and in what form.
B. Performing Client Assignments
At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we serve our clients with integrity and objectivity, making every effort to conduct search consulting activities on the basis of impartial consideration of relevant facts. Specifically, we:
- Conduct a focused search for qualified candidates consistent with a search strategy agreed upon with the client.
- Develop with full client involvement and approval a comprehensive job description for each search engagement and make this available to candidates before they are presented for interview with the client.
- Thoroughly evaluate potential candidates before presenting them for an interview with the client, including in-depth interviews, appropriate preliminary inquiries into references and background, and a careful assessment of the candidates’ strengths and weaknesses against the specification for the proposed position. We advise clients when circumstances require a modified approach.
- Agree with the client as to what reference and background checks need to be conducted on finalist candidates, what elements these checks should cover, how extensive they should be and who will perform them.
- Present information about the candidate to the client honestly and factually and include any reservations concerning the candidate that are pertinent to the position.
- Advise the client promptly and offer alternative courses of action if it becomes apparent that no qualified candidates can be presented, or that the length of the search will differ considerably from that originally specified.
- Withdraw from the assignment if we determine that a client has characterized its organization falsely or misled candidates and is unwilling to rectify the situation.
- Refrain absolutely from the presentation of resumes in the absence of an existing client relationship.
C. Preserving the Confidentiality of Client Information
We use our best efforts to protect confidential information concerning our clients. Specifically, at Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we:
- Use confidential information received from clients only for purposes of conducting the assignment.
- Disclose such confidential information only to those individuals within the firm or to those appropriately qualified/interested candidates who have a need to know the information.
- Do not use such confidential information for personal gain, nor provide inside information to any other parties for their personal gain.
D. Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates has an ethical obligation to avoid conflicts of interest with our clients. Specifically, we:
- Refuse or withdraw from an assignment upon learning of conditions that impair our ability to perform services properly, including actual or potential conflicts of interest unless all affected parties expressly agree to waive the conflict.
- Provide to clients our undivided loyalty as an advocate and professional advisor in the process of negotiating with finalist candidates. Only in exceptional circumstances, and only with agreement in advance of all affected parties, may candidates be presented to more than one client simultaneously.
- Inform clients of business or personal relationships with candidates that might affect or appear to affect the member's objectivity in conducting the assignment.
- Do not accept payment for assisting candidates in securing employment.
Candidate Relations
Although our primary relationship is with our clients, at Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we also seek to establish professional relationships with candidates. These relationships are characterized by honesty, objectivity, accuracy and respect for confidentiality. In building such relationships, we:
- Explain the relationships that exist between the parties involved in a search consulting engagement, and in particular the rights and obligations of the candidate in the process.
- Provide candidates with relevant and accurate information about the client organization and the position.
- Encourage candidates to provide accurate information about their qualifications. Upon learning that a candidate has misled a client regarding his or her qualifications, we reject the candidate unless the client, candidate and we agree that the candidacy should continue following disclosure of the facts.
- Present to clients accurate and relevant information about candidates, and otherwise maintain the confidentiality of information provided by prospective and actual candidates.
- Only provide an individual's confidential resume or other confidential data with the individual's prior consent, and in the context of an existing client relationship.
- Advise prospects and candidates of the status and disposition of their candidacies in a timely fashion.
- Explain that only in exceptional circumstances may an individual be presented on more than one search simultaneously, and then only if all involved parties agree.
- Advise candidates that, so long as they remain employed by the client organization, we may not approach them as a candidate for a future search without the express permission of the client.
Contractor Relations
Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates sometimes relies on contractors and subcontractors to assist in the search process. Services may be subcontracted but responsibility for them will always lie with us. We:
- Inform our contractors and subcontractors in writing that they should adhere to our Code of Conduct and these Professional Practice Guidelines.
- Avoid contractors and subcontractors whose practices are inconsistent with our standards of professionalism.
Diversity and Inclusion
Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates is committed to uphold values of diversity and inclusion in order to achieve and sustain excellence, as much for our company as for our clients and candidates. We firmly believe that we can best promote excellence by recruiting a diverse group of candidates and by contributing to a climate of respect that is supportive of their success. This climate for diversity, inclusion and excellence is critical to attaining the best match between our candidates, our clients, and the positions for which we recruit. All of our Associates recognize and fully support these values. Further, we recognize that the responsibility for excellence, diversity and inclusion lies with all of us at EHNA.
REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND CHECKING
At Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates we follow these guidelines for effective reference and background checking, adapted from the Professional Practice Guidelines of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, www.aesc.org.
The taking of reference and background checks is a critical part of the search process. In order to avoid misunderstandings or problems at a later date Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates considers it our responsibility to clarify who will conduct reference and background checks, and to ensure that all parties involved (consultant, client and/or specialist third parties) understand their roles and responsibilities in the process.
The following guidelines are intended to articulate the definitions and processes involved in this phase of a search consulting engagement.
Definitions
Reference Checks
Background Checks
- Reference Check: Comments, oral or written, from current and past employers or colleagues concerning a candidate's strengths and weaknesses vis a vis the proposed position.
- Employment History Check: Verification of dates, positions and responsibilities during a candidate's professional career.
- Educational and Professional Credentials Check: Verification of a candidate's college attendance, awarded degrees and professional certification.
- Criminal Record Check: A check of a candidate's name against appropriate district, regional and/or national criminal records.
- Civil Record Check: A check of a candidate's name against appropriate civil records.
- Background Check: This is a broader term often used to include all checks with the exception of the reference check.
- Media Check: A check, often employing the internet, to see if a candidate has been mentioned in newspapers or other media during the past several years.
Reference checking is a way to expand understanding of candidates' skills and experience through the opinions of those who have worked with them. The intention is to build up a comprehensive picture of a candidate and to validate or challenge conclusions that Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates and the client initially may have reached.
References customarily are conducted by search firms both in the preliminary stages of a search and, more comprehensively, in the final stages of a search as an individual becomes the favored candidate. At this latter stage clients may also choose to conduct references on the candidate. Since, at this point, discretion and confidentiality issues can be particularly delicate, Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates recommends that we carefully orchestrate this collaborative process.
The specific reference checking process to be employed should be discussed and agreed upon between Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates and the client since the circumstances of each search engagement are unique.
Background checks seek to ensure the accuracy of more objective data such as employment chronology and educational credentials. They also seek to ensure that the candidate has no civil or criminal history that would preclude successful fulfillment of the responsibilities of the proposed position.
Many large corporations routinely conduct such background checks on all senior executive appointees, along with other screenings such as medical and drug testing. Some do this in-house while others employ specialist organizations to conduct the checks on their behalf.
Emerson Howell Nagel & Associates seeks to agree explicitly with the client as to who will assume responsibility for such background checks. Regardless of who conducts them we ensure that there is agreement as to the level of checking and degree of thoroughness appropriate to the engagement.