Corporate Excellence Awards 2020

Bringing Honesty and Quality to Recruitment ‘Bespoke, Tailored, Honest Recruitment.’ It’s a powerful mantra to commit to, and Tessa at Masson Appointments Ltd is an independent recruiter with the quality and integrity to uphold those values. She is an expert at finding the right person for the job, no matter the industry and no matter the needs of the company. Since their inception in 2003, Masson Appointments has made it their goal to understand the needs, environment, team dynamic and company culture of businesses that they work with. They use their understanding of the company structure to find the best, most motivated candidates who will be a true asset to the business. Some recruiters take an indelicate, shotgun approach and seek out as many candidates as possible to present to their client, hoping that one of them will make the grade. Masson Appointments is much more scrupulous. They create a shortlist of just two to four candidates to present per vacancy. As a recruiter, they hold themselves to the highest standards possible. All potential recruits are interviewed by the founder, Tessa Masson, personally. With over 20 years in the industry, she has the skills and experience needed to uncover the qualities in an applicant and perfectly align them to a company’s needs. In fact, Tessa has even successfully recruited a number of highly discreet individuals to work in a Royal household in London, so there is no doubting the calibre that she seeks out. Masson Appointments support clients from a broad spectrum of industries, able to draw on their wide experience to highlight the key characteristics, skills and talent needed to build a happy and thriving team. Many of their clients have been working with Masson Appointments for years, sticking with the recruiter due to their high level of client care and the quality of candidate matches. Of course, there are two sides to every employment story. For a candidate, Tessa is the perfect person to help them find a new role. She takes time to get to know each candidate on a personal and professional level, so that she can help match their skills, values, aspirations and personality to the perfect role and placement. And, as one of the most frustrating aggravations following unsuccessful interviews is lack of feedback or information from the interviewer, Tessa gives feedback to all her candidates. Furthermore, she keeps in contact with newly appointed recruits to make sure that their new roles are living up to expectations. 2020 has been an unprecedented year for the way we live and work. Many companies are, unfortunately, having to review their business models, and this means restructuring and facing the realities of redundancies. Handling redundancies is not a well-practised skill. It’s a difficult path for any manager to navigate. As of 2020, Masson Appointments have begun an outplacement service which alleviates the anxiety and difficulty around employees facing redundancy. Masson Appointments works with employees preparing to leave their position and puts them on good footing to head out on the job hunt and secure a new role as quickly as possible. They help with CV reviews, job applications, interview skills and job market guidance. They also work through exit interviews, help with mediation and act as an unbiased support for both parties. Overall, their efforts can help to boost morale and motivation, and make the stressful process that much smoother. With many years of experience and a responsible and caring outlook, Tessa Masson is a fantastic recruiter that any business would be lucky to have on their side. Contact: Tessa Masson Website: www.massonappointments.co.uk 2020 has been an unprecedented year for the way the live and work. Many companies are, unfortunately, having to review their business models, and this means restructuring and facing the realities of redundancies. Handling redundancies is not a well-practised skill. It’s a difficult path for any manager to navigate. As of 2020, Masson Appointments have begun an outplacement service which alleviates the anxiety and difficulty around taking people’s jobs. Issue 10 2020 7 Sep20418 Capturing Success Artificial Intelligence is one of the most powerful forces in the world today, with the potential of this new technology still yet to be fully untapped. For businesses, the challenge is application. How does AI apply to me? Named as Best AI Solutions Company of the Year, 2020 in Corporate Vision’s Corporate Excellence Awards, we take a closer look at the team from IDenTV to see how they’ve been able to translate the incredible data potential of video into useful analytics for a host of different sectors. There is little more potent at the moment than the possibilities surrounding Artificial Intelligence. Machine learning has opened many opportunities to firms and companies around the world. For the team at IDenTV, they have applied the unique skillset of this technology on the task of identifying elements from video for the benefit of clients. Video contains an enormous amount of data, contextual metadata or otherwise, and the team at IDenTV can “juice” the information and make it easily available. IDenTV specializes in using computer vision and speech-to-text to generate valuable information. This workload, that would previously be handled by people, can now be done in a fraction of the time with no bias involved at all. It makes the video fully searchable, treating the content as though it is a transcript of a conversation. This incredibly powerful tool has a number of different applications and has been used in a number of different ways. What sets the IDenTV offering apart from its competitors is the ability to provide this service in real-time as well as through looking at historic data. This feature means that IDenTV’s platform is not just a vital security component, but has applications in many other fields too. Businesses involved in sports can use the information the team gathers to established how effective branding is, for instance. Sep20189 Issue 11 2020 9 The IDenTV team has grown quickly, and is currently one of the leading companies in this field, with a proven record for delivering large government and private sector projects. Face recognition, object detection and an impressive capacity for video and aerial analysis means that automation can remove the need for an extensive security team. The efficient and lightweight technology, combined with an easy to use platform, characterizes the approach of the IDenTV team in every respect. The aim has always been to make this technology available to as many people as possible. For those companies that can’t afford a data science team, the obvious solution is IDenTV. Its systems are cloud-based, meaning that it is a SaaS platform. Uploading images of required faces takes moments and allows individuals to be quickly identified every time. The technology involved in IDenTV is not run by clients, meaning that even videos from a phone can be used for analytical data. Because the cloud is so deeply embedded in how IDenTV operates, everything has been made incredibly accessible. Because Artificial Intelligence is such a vast field, the work that IDenTV could be applied to an extremely broad field. The team have focused in on video because it’s predicted to be 80% of what users consume, and as such, gathering data and understanding what people are taking from it is very important. IDenTV is on hand to instruct people on how to monetize a video and hit those key performance indicators that make video such a valuable tool. When people turn to IDenTV, they understand the enormous potential that video data in this field can hold. They know that it could transform a company and that unlocking that information could allow them to make great strides. What the team at IDenTV understand is how to unlock that data so that anyone can access it. It’s an amazing skill which is why they have achieved such significant success. Name: Amro Shihadah Web Address: www.identv.com The technology involved in IDenTV is not run by clients, meaning that even videos from a phone can be used for analytical data. Because the cloud is so deeply embedded in how IDenTV operates, everything has been made incredibly accessible. Corporate Excellence Awards 97