The availability and scale of technology is revolutionizing virtually every industry, including talent recruitment and executive search operations. For recruitment purposes, having intuitive technology to drive the search and selection process of the right candidate, while allowing clients to have greater insight into the process, ensures which firms will deliver better results. Lincoln Strategic is one of those firms optimizing the power of intuitive and scalable technology to lead with data-powered insights in their partnerships with clients. Lincoln Strategic operates in the mining and materials sector to locate high-level and specialist talent that will help their clients reach their future goals.

“Finding people to fulfil these complex roles and searching your memory for them is not the big secret anymore. Having accurate and historical data that you can use to not only find the client but reach out to them and successfully recruit them is a gamechanger in the industry nowadays,” says Erik Buckland, Partner at Lincoln Strategic.

Utilizing data-driven insights to help clients in their end-to-end search process is one aspect that differentiates Lincoln Strategic, but Buckland’s team is also looking towards a more resilient future focusing on diversity in recruitment. The mining industry, historically speaking, has not diversified to its full potential. Lincoln Strategic seeks to change this by sourcing candidates with an inclusionary perspective in mind. “We have some very, very capable female leaders in our industry, but it’s not as prevalent as we would like it to be,” says Buckland. Progressiveness is also aimed to meet the fast-moving changes that the mining industry faces overall, and this includes mandates for more safety, more enhanced technology offerings so mines can open quicker and focus on other materials, like lithium, and better conditions standards overall. To lead this charge, as Eric explains, the lag time between experience and the lack of talent needs to be closed.

“Companies in the mining industry need to meet the future of the industry, and in those ways you have to differentiate yourself. What is your value difference? I often first ask clients to explain why someone should quit their job to work for them, and then we can start building out a framework for recruitment,” explains Buckland.

The next steps in the recruitment process leverage everything from the expertise at Lincoln Strategic to the new technology driving real-time insights into the process as a whole. Further, Lincoln Strategic acts as trusted advisors and partners to their clients, helping the decision be guided along from outreach all the way to hiring.

In this way, Lincoln Strategic drives a collaborative partnership. Unlike other search firms where the recruitment process tends to get washed up in a black hole, Lincoln’s clients have full say and visibility. True collaboration also includes Lincoln Strategic’s trusted advice, on account of their expertise and knowledge of the mining industry writ large.  Buckland mentions how him and his team are prepared to offer their qualified opinion when a client is selecting a candidate. Sometimes, clients can really benefit from an external perspective on who is the best hire to take their business to the next level. It can happen that companies have always hired a certain profile of person or haven’t previously cast their net wide enough to consider all the talent options available to them. We don’t just help with providing a robust recruiting process, we’re there to provide the counsel that’s needed to make the most transformative hires,” Buckland says.

Buckland mentions an important point central to Lincoln Strategic’s ethos. Recruitment firms need to be a trusted advisor to their clients, and Lincoln Strategic’s goal is to help usher mining companies into their future outlook by finding candidates that will align with that. Further, Buckland explains how he and his team are leveraging AI technology to explore references, verify information, and be instantly alerted to issues of fraud. “It’s our duty to our clients to be aware of all of that,” Buckland says. All in all, Lincoln Strategic seeks to deliver a meaningful recruitment experience to clients. Their focus on the mining industry delivers a passionate and honest relationship with clients and a broader network overall.