Harrier Resourcing People is an independent people resourcing company that helps other companies find and retain talent. It provides strategic sourcing solutions and high quality candidates. Its services include recruitment outsourcing, an HR talent pool of qualified professionals, and HR consulting services to improve recruitment and retention strategies. The company is led by Managing Director Bruce McCowan and an experienced team with backgrounds in HR, recruiting, and consulting.

1. Harrier Resourcing People
Providing capability to source, manage
and retain yours
T: +61 8 6365 4330
www.HarrierRP.com

2. INTRODUCTION
Harrier is a people resourcing company. We do two things:
Help companies find solutions to their resourcing demands
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Source talent that helps companies find, manage and retain their own
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resources
We believe that doing this right and linking it seamlessly with all other people/HR
initiatives are key value creators.
We are independent, provide strategic HR sourcing solutions and deliver high quality
candidates by using tight efficiency measures that deliver valuable outcomes for our
clients. We:
Provide strategic sourcing solutions
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Work in true partnership with clients
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Match our skills to our clients’ needs
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Free up HR Departments to focus on core strategies
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Maintain an exceptional HR talent pool
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Deliver the highest quality candidates
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Provide the right people at the right time
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Succeed in tight labour markets
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Deliver measurable, tangible results
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SERVICES
RESOURCING SERVICES
Recruitment Outsourcing
We partner with HR departments to plan for and deliver quality candidates.
Typical recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) companies focus only on the cost of
recruitment and are closely aligned with a recruitment agency.
At Harrier, we believe that recruitment outsourcing should:
Be independent from recruitment agencies
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Deliver quality candidates that belong to the client
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Increase recruitment responsiveness
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Provide a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers
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Improve retention
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Improve relative recruitment efficiency
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Reduce recruitment costs
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3. Our recruitment services include:
Recruitment Centres delivered under different models including, in-sourced,
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blended and outsourced
Project Recruitment
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Graduate Recruitment
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Vacation Programmes
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HR Talent Pool
Our HR Talent Pool is a truly specialist recruitment service that provides people and
organisations with exceptional HR talent. Our crew of HR professionals means
Harrier is uniquely placed to manage your HR talent requirements.
HR recruitment is different from any other form of recruitment and the challenges in
our current business environment have never been greater. Issues such as retention,
talent management and engagement make it critical to have the right people in place
to meet these challenges head on.
It is vital that organisations have access to HR professionals who are pragmatic,
versatile, work collaboratively and possess strong commercial foresight.
Harrier’s HR Talent Pool division understands that recruiting specialist HR
professionals requires an in-depth and current knowledge of the candidate market as
well as contemporary HR skills. Our Talent Pool crew members are degree-qualified
HR professionals with experience obtained within leading national and multinational
organisations.
Our Talent Pool services include:
Human Resources
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In-house Recruiters
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Contract HR and Recruitment Professionals
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HR Consulting
Harrier offers a full range of overview and assessment consulting tools to improve
supply and sourcing strategies, retention and recruitment systems. Our approach is
to work alongside in-house recruitment functions to assist them to deliver better
outcomes to the business. Services include:
Sourcing, evaluating and implementation of recruitment systems
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Reporting and metrics
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Employee value proposition
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Benchmarking existing performance
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Implementation of recruitment metrics
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Review of sourcing channels
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Employment branding
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Recruitment process re-engineering
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Recruitment and selection training
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4. KEY PERSONNEL
Our experienced crew of HR professionals understands recruitment in the context of
an organisation’s underlying strategic goals and its future workforce requirements.
The broad international, world-class know-how of our crew members gives our
clients access to a complete suite of solutions – from one-off tactical projects to
enterprise-wide recruitment strategies. Irrespective of the solution, we apply a
rigorous strategic approach to ensure genuine value is delivered.
BRUCE MCCOWAN
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Bruce is the founding Director of Harrier Resourcing People and has an extensive
background in human resources and consulting. He has held senior executive
appointments with HBOS Australia, BankWest and Gerard Daniels.
As head of Human Resources for HBOS Australia he reported directly to the CEO and
was a member of the Executive Committee. He was responsible for all aspects of the
HR function including OSH, employee relations, strategic sourcing, remuneration,
HR consulting and organisational development.
Prior to establishing Harrier, Bruce held the positions of managing director of people
resourcing strategies at Gerard Daniels.
He holds graduate and post graduate qualifications in Education and is a Fellow of
the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
SCOTT CRAWLEY
OPERATIONS MANAGER
OUTSOURCING DIVISION
Scott Crawley is a founding Harrier shareholder with over eight years of recruitment,
workforce planning, operational management and consulting experience.
Previously, Scott was an integral member of the People Resourcing Strategies group
of Gerard Daniels. During this time he project managed the delivery of a number of
graduate, vacation and international campaigns as well as implementing a number of
scalable IT recruitment solutions.
Prior to that, Scott spent five years in London in senior operational roles within the
IT sector. He worked as an engineer within the Rio Tinto Group for nearly four years
and was part of an operational business improvement team that increased port
capacity by 35 per cent.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons).

5. MATT HEWITSON
LEAD TALENT MANAGER
HR TALENT POOL
Matt joined Harrier having held senior consultant and business manager positions
with an international recruitment firm in Perth and London. He comes from a
generalist HR background and is an experienced HR recruiter.
Matt has established Harrier’s HR Talent Pool which specialises in the recruitment of
HR professionals and in-house recruiters. With an emphasis on candidate care and
relationship management, combined with his specialist market knowledge, Matt has
an outstanding track record of recruiting HR and recruitment professionals in WA
and overseas.
He spent two years in the UK and led numerous recruitment campaigns for HR
professionals spanning the UK and Europe. Across Europe, he concentrated on senior
level HR recruitment, assisting in the establishment of three HR shared service
centres for English and American companies.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Psychology degree.
PHILIPPE DE SAINT JORRE
MANAGING CONSULTANT
Phil has an extensive human resources and consulting background and has held
senior roles with the Defence Department, Deloitte, Clough, Newcrest, BHP Billiton
and Gerard Daniels.
He has worked at the strategic and operational levels in HR and general management
across several industries including mining, oil and gas, engineering and construction
and defence. Specific assignments he has worked on have involved strategic
sourcing, HR consulting, international HR management and organisation
development.
Phil’s work has also taken him to various international locations in North and South-
East Asia and North America which included positions as the HR manager on a major
gas field development in Pakistan and global resourcing manager for BHP Billiton
Petroleum in the USA.
Phil holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration.