September 25, 2024
A commitment to training its people for sustained success means industry leading retention for PeopleIN’s professional services recruitment business Perigon Group … and big wins for the business and its clients. In 2010, Perigon Group opened the doors of its first office in Sydney with aspirations to redefine professional and executive recruitment. Fast forward to 2024, and the business has achieved enormous growth and become synonymous with success and innovation in the industry. By 2013 Business Review Weekly had named the business list on its list of the ‘Top 100 Fastest Growing Start Ups’. The growth trajectory continued, and so did the accolades, as Perigon Group was recognised on the Australian Financial Review’s ‘Fastest Growing Companies’ list for three consecutive years. And it’s a deliberate and purposeful emphasis on talent development, and the nurturing of new hires, which has aided this trajectory and positioned Perigon Group as a proactive force in the ever-evolving landscape of recruitment. The success of the business can be attributed to its culture and values. The commitment to talent development is evident in the emphasis placed on fostering a supportive environment that rewards high performance and sets clear, achievable goals for consultants. Five years ago, Perigon Group’s leadership designed and implemented its highly successful Talent Development Plan. As a rapidly expanding business it faced the challenge of a highly ambitious workforce with huge potential yet lacking organisational structure to cater for clear promotion pathways aligned to our values. The Talent Development Plan was implemented as a means, to not only map talent, but identify leadership opportunities and succession planning which made sense and was aligned to the personal goals of salespeople. It helps the leadership team with consistent communication regarding the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) essential for success, aligning them with our cultural and behavioural values. The result is a holistic talent plan that directly and positively influenced organisational culture. And it’s clearly working. When people join Perigon Group they tend to stay as shown by remarkably low turnover rates among the lowest in the industry. The average tenure among all employees is more than four years; for the leadership it’s far longer with directors each having spent more than a decade with the business.