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Pictured: Audax Corporation President Patricia Langmuir Taylor

High-performing companies throughout North America engage Audax Corporation for its refreshingly thorough and proven selection and assessment capability. The search for a dream candidate has to be navigated carefully and no one knows this better than Patricia Langmuir Taylor, Human Resources Consultant and President of this Toronto-based consulting firm.

Armed with a broadly based background in corporate recruitment spanning eighteen years, Langmuir Taylor maintains, "Intelligent hiring is fundamental to a company’s sustainability and prosperity." She adds, "The well publicized saga of John Davy, the Canadian appointed to a CEO role with a Maori television station in New Zealand last year, is a case in point of a hiring process gone profoundly wrong. Davy apparently used a fraudulent résumé to gain the job. His premeditated web of deception caused significant damage and international embarrassment to his employers, both of which could have been avoided entirely with a little due diligence in the hiring process, including thorough reference checking."

Audax Corporation has helped a number of companies avoid this costly and damaging nightmare. A documented Professional Background Due Diligence Review process is an essential aspect of attracting and checking out candidates properly. The firm’s reference checking methodology, complementary to other selection and assessment techniques utilized by smart companies, is an objective, cost-effective and time-efficient means of investigating the professional experience of finalist candidates. Even with a burgeoning market need, Audax Corporation is amongst the very few firms offering Professional Background Due Diligence Review as a stand-alone service, one that easily can be added to an existing hiring process.

Audax Corporation’s capability also extends to its proven ability to conduct successful organizational studies. A powerful means of assessing the state of various organizational issues, these professionally managed studies serve as a litmus test for implementing and steering effective change.

As the war for talent continues to simmer under a North American economic foundation, so unfortunately racked by accounting scandal and other manifestations of corporate fiscal irresponsibility, the ridiculous speed with which hiring decisions frequently are made has been proven to be damaging and expensive both to organizational success and reputation. A hornet’s nest of trouble can be avoided, however, by paying careful attention to the myriad of details associated with the hiring process.

Well practiced in identifying desirable business professionals who meet the preferred hiring criteria and business focus, and in guiding senior management in matters concerning fit and retention, Audax Corporation boasts a treasure trove of reasons why it proudly serves as a quiet arm of some of the most accomplished public and private organizations in the North American business arena.