The Professional Search - Investing In A Critical Mission
Because no club can be effectively maintained without talented, dedicated management, the executive search process is one of the most important investments your club will make.
Each member of our consulting team is uniquely qualified to lead your clubs executive search to a successful conclusion. Our team includes club professionals and club leaders with many years of devoted service to the private club industry and keen insights into the innermost workings of todays ever-changing and challenging club environment.
Perhaps as importantly, each member of our team is practiced in the art of matching candidates to the personality, culture and expectations of private clubs and their members. There is no doubt about it, your club is unique.
Club Search Consultants, Inc. (CSC) will help you find that unique and talented individual who best fulfills your clubs needs and objectives.
Search Methodology
Your Club Search consultant will adapt our market-proven methods to the specific needs and plans of your Search Committee. CSCs standard procedures include:
n Determination of your clubs objectives and requirements.
n Examination of the clubs membership composition, personality history and organizational structure.
n Personal inspection of your clubs physical facilities and grounds.
n Preparation of detailed manager profile and candidate specifications for consideration by the Search Committee.
n Review of our extensive prospect file and personal network of nearly 5,000 professional club managers to determine the most suitable candidates.
n Confidential, extensive reference checks through our established network system.
n Testing and evaluation of the best-suited candidates to determine psychological compatibility with your clubs needs.
n Identification of the superior candidates and verification of their credentials.
n Preparation of interview guidelines for the Search Committee to use during their on-site candidate evaluations.
n On-site guidance during the candidate interview process.
n Coordination of the interview schedule for the Search Committee and candidates, including travel and lodging arrangements.
n Assisting with the contract negotiations.
Service With Excellence
CSCs services are governed by our commitment to providing Service With Excellence. This guiding theme is comprised of a range of principles, including:
Professionalism. CSC has an excellent reputation in the industry. Our business comes predominantly from referrals resulting from our successful search methodology and the professional manner in which we conduct our efforts.
Maintenance of Appropriate Confidentiality. All privileged information received from a current or prospective club client remains confidential. Our inside-the-industry sources are confidential as well.
A High Level of Ethical Behavior. For instance, CSC will not solicit any manager for potential employment while that individual is still employed by a club at which we have placed that manager.
A Thorough Approach. Our objective is to conduct a successful search that will result in a happy, long term marriage between our club client and the candidate it selects. By definition, this entails a thorough, painstaking effort on CSCs part that includes in-depth verification of a candidates references, background, and education prior to presentation for employment consideration.
Your club can leverage CSCs unique attributes to assure that your search will meet or exceed your objectives. We have a wealth of industry knowledge, contacts and experience. Moreover, CSCs principals, with their past experiences as a club manager, club president and search committee chairman, are well positioned to understand your needs and requirements.
CSC Stands By A Unique G.M. Search Guarantee
If, within two (2) years of employment, your club terminates the employment of any general manager placed through CSC for which CSC has been paid a fee, we will conduct another executive search for your club at no additional charge beyond reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses. Our guarantee is unparalleled in the club GM industry.
An Alternative: Search Committee Guidance Service
A club desiring to conduct its own search while at the same time desiring to leverage some of the benefits of a professional evaluation and the guidance of an experienced executive search firm should consider the CSC Guidance Service. This service is designed to help conserve the time of search, leverage our professional experience in the assessment of candidates, reduce search costs, help avoid legal pitfalls, and expedite the hiring process.
Working closely with your Search Committee, we will develop position descriptions and candidate specification profiles. We will utilize our extensive personal network and confidential reference verification system to screen all candidates identified by your club.
We conduct personal interviews with the best-suited candidates and make educated recommendations to the Search Committee.
Additionally, we will prepare an interview guide for the committee as well as provide biographies of the candidates.
This service does not involve assistance with contract negotiations.
Unlike the full executive search, employment will not be guaranteed, as we are working only with those candidates chosen by the club. A flat fee of $9,000, plus out-of-pocket expenses, is payable under the same payment terms as are applicable with our complete executive search.
Interim General Managers
The selection of a new club manager is one of the most important decisions your club will make, influencing your operations well into the future. Your immediate needs for on-site management, however, should not be ignored. CSC is pleased to assist our clients that require interim management during the period of time that an executive search by CSC is ongoing.
Paid directly by the club, an interim manager is an independent contractor, without employment status. This CSC service is provided to our client clubs without charge. The service is designed to assure you of continuous, reliable management for the duration of the search. CSC, with its extensive industry contacts, is uniquely positioned to offer this service to its clients.
Head Golf Course Superintendent and Golf Professional Search Services
While successful management of a country club starts with the General Manager as the team leader one cannot underestimate the importance of having a strong management team in all areas of operations. CSC recognizes this and has expanded our service focus to the recruitment and placement of both Head Golf Course Superintendents and Golf Professionals, using our same thorough and proven search methodology.
To ensure that our clients get the best possible service, CSC has enlisted the support of specialists in each of these areas who have extensive experience in their respective fields, including the keen ability to evaluate, recruit, train and retain staff.
Our consultant specialists possess firsthand field knowledge, experience and excellent professional reputations in their fields of recruitment focus.
Our specialists have been carefully trained in the recruitment process the CSC way providing service with excellence! Working closely with CSCs principals, they will help your club identify, hire and retain quality leaders.
Management Consultation
Every aspect of your clubs administration, operations and planning are well within our expertise. CSCs principals have each been intimately involved in club operations and policy development and execution. To this end, CSC is uniquely positioned to provide additional services designed to enhance your club policies, operations and environment.
Consultative Services, on a negotiated fee basis, include, but are not limited to the following areas of expertise:
Strategic Planning
n Evaluating current plan and auditing policy
n Identifying new policy options and plan refinements
Leadership Development & Conducting Director Orientation Seminars
n Defining the leadership roles and responsibilities of directors
n Evaluating the organizational structure and defining the lines of communication.
Operational
n Establishing membership recruitment and retention programs
n Developing cost containment strategies
n Enhancing menu concepts and design
n Improving organizational staffing, scheduling and training
n Creating employee manuals
n Enabling club directors, management and staff to better define goals and measuring results toward objectives
