If you are simply looking for a job and need the help of an agency that might find you one, International Recruiters is probably not the ideal firm to seek out. The emerging recruitment agency, situated at 195 F Camp Street, Georgetown, sees its mission differently. The firm’s Managing Director Ewan Shanks prefers to have the entity seen as having a far more meaningful pursuit. “We don’t find jobs for people,” he says. “We find people for jobs. “
That pronouncement sums up, in a handful of words and with unashamed bluntness the perspective that the Guyanese-born remigrant from Canada brings to what he does. It is, simultaneously, and in a society where public and private sector alike bellyache over a shortage of skills, a considerable challenge. That, however, may be less the case with Shanks, whose new local company is simply setting him up to continue in a pursuit that he has been practicing for 25 years.
Inevitably, Shanks must work as much with the firms (and their bosses) seeking the skills, as with the potential employee. He believes that if his own efforts to find the right person for the job are to be successful, he must understand the firm seeking the employee, the true nature of the job and exactly what the firm expects the new employee to accomplish. Accordingly, he talks much more about the
