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How we recruited a Director of Operations

About the client

Our client is an importer and exporter of premium livestock and chilled / frozen meat. They pass their livestock through a strict, veterinarian-run program to ensure health and safety.

Location - Saudi Arabia
Industry - livestock import / export
Size - 120 employees

We applied our three-phase service delivery model for this recruitment drive.

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Video job advertisement

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By leveraging this unique and highly effective approach, we aim to connect with the right candidates at the right time.

We share our videos on LinkedIn, and Facebook, posting them 10-20 times based on relevance. Typically, our videos receive over 1,000 views within the first 24 hours.

Job advertisement

We continually refresh, rewrite, and reformat our job advertisements to ensure we receive high-quality applications. Our strategy is proactive, with approximately 20 advertisements posted for each permanent job. These advertisements are shared across:

Job boards - Seek, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Indeed and Jora
Social media - LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
11 Recruitment's website

On average, our advertisements receive over 100 applications and significantly outperform the market benchmark for Seek, shown in this graph.

Director of Operations

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Manage the entire day-to-day sheep farm operations / logistics
Excellent remuneration package - tax FREE

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is seeking an experienced Director of Operations to be responsible for farm management and logistics for sheep from Western Australia to Saudi Arabia. You will relocate to Jeddah to run the farm on-site with complete responsibility for large-scale sheep management.

The farm is 20km2 with plans of expansion into 2020. There will be an estimated 100k - 110k sheep located at the farm. 

You will be provided with flights for you and your family to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to begin directing all farm operations. With a generous tax FREE salary package, you can enjoy the beautiful region of Jeddah whilst experiencing a new and exciting destination to call home.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The duties for this role will include:

Undertaking all farm management to ensure efficiency and welfare of livestock exportation
Overseeing the transportation logistics between stations
Managing a team of approximately 40 farmhands and veterinarians
Maintaining compliance with WH&S policies, and safe work practices
Undertaking regular risk assessments and implementing relevant mitigation actions
Managing the animal husbandry and welfare for the farm

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate will have:

Experience running all day-to-day operations of a sheep farm
Experience in large-scale farm management
The ability to manage, organise, and operate a livestock property
The ability to conduct internal stock movement, monitoring, induction, exiting, sorting, classing, marking and healthcare / welfare supervision
Comprehensive knowledge of safe-keeping sheep
The ability to identify associated risks with the livestock exportation
Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with key decision-makers

Experience with farm logistics, including livestock exportation, would also be an advantage.

Assessment Matrix design

Our custom-designed, in-house software generates an Assessment Matrix, serving as the blueprint for our recruitment process. This process includes screening, interviews, document verification, skills testing, personality profiling, and reference checks.

The Assessment Matrix marks the stage at which each criterion is addressed, with the most critical criteria being checked multiple times throughout the recruitment process.

Selection criteria	Screen	Interview	Docs.	Profiling	Refs.
Education
Animal health / nutrition - advantage	✓		✓
Experience
Large-scale farm management	✓	✓			✓
Livestock management	✓	✓			✓
Classing and marking sheep	✓	✓			✓
Livestock security supervision and management	✓	✓			✓
Sheep health and welfare	✓	✓			✓
Animal disease identification	✓	✓			✓
Farm logistics execution - advantage	✓	✓			✓
Livestock mortality rate reduction	✓	✓			✓
Farm management - 20km2	✓	✓			✓
Staff management - 50	✓	✓			✓
Livestock management - 100k	✓	✓			✓
Other
Relocate to Saudi Arabia	✓	✓
Proficient in / will learn Arabic	✓	✓
Current passport	✓	✓	✓
Technological aptitude to record data in electronic systems	✓		✓
MS Office - advanced	✓	✓
Verify LinkedIn vs CV	✓	✓			✓
Accept expected salary ($250k)	✓	✓			✓
Previous warning of termination?	✓	✓			✓
Will you pass a drug test?	✓	✓			✓
Behaviour
Dominance - 69%		✓		✓
Influence - 45%		✓		✓
Steadiness - 27%		✓		✓
Compliance - 47%		✓		✓
Forms signed
Health / police check			✓
Signed document - tell the truth			✓
Docs verified
Driver’s licence	✓		✓
Citizen AU / NZ or PR	✓		✓

DISC profiling

Just like people, jobs have their own behavioral profiles based on duties, environment, and communication. For every job vacancy, we create a profile that allows us to match an applicant's behavior to the specific role.

We utilise the DISC assessment, which examines the following attributes:

Dominance - accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
Influence - persuading others, openness, dependability
Steadiness - cooperation, sincerity, dependability
Compliance - quality, accuracy, expertise

DISC profile - Director of Operations

Director of Operations

Shortlisted candidates

Candidate A

Director of Operations - 1 - Personal Style

Candidate B

Director of Operations - 2 - Personal Style

Candidate C

Director of Operations - 3 - Personal Style

Behavioural adaptation by candidates to match the job profile:

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Results

We shortlist candidates by sourcing widely and measuring every stage of our recruitment process to meet our key objective.

Our service includes an extended 18-month replacement guarantee, aligning our interests with yours—to recruit high achievers who will excel and stay.