Finding Office premises for Our clients

In every country in the world, Maksim Consultants assists our Clients’ secure office premises or we supply an office address. Most emerging markets demand our Clients’ have a 12 months office lease agreement, before company registration is approved.

Maksim Consultants helps our Client overcome this challenge in the following ways:

Virtual office services

In every India, Maksim Consultants supplies virtual office services to our Clients. Virtual offices are a cost-effective, professional way to assist our Clients conduct business in every city.

A virtual office address may include:

• a city center business address
• telephone and fax auto forwarding service or
• dedicated telephone line answered by our staff
• mail forwarding services and
• provision of a local fax number or email address

Advantages to our Clients’ of virtual office address include:

• help close sales with local customers
• corporate bank account opening is easier
• free use of our boardroom facilities for Client meetings

Maksim Consultants city dormant virtual office service includes:

• a business address for invoicing purposes only, no mail forwarding
• a business telephone number for invoicing purposes only, no phone message service and
• a business fax number for invoicing purposes only, no fax forwarding service

Shared Office Space

In every City in the India, Maksim Consultants supplies our Clients’ shared office services. A more cost effective alternative to signing a long term lease for a permanent office space.

A shared office may include:

• a desk and computer in our centre city center office
• telephone and fax answering service
• free wifi and utilities

Most developing countries demand our Clients’ supply a physical office lease before company registration approval. Maksim Consultants provides our Clients’ rolling short term leases to satisfy Government requirements.

During the company incorporation process, a Government oficial will conduct an unscheduled surprise inspection of the physical office. it is important our Client has dedicated office space.

Advantages to our Clients’ of shared office premises include:

• avoiding the need to sign long term leases
• low cost physical space to house employees until permanent office space is secured near our Clients’ customers
• savings on furniture, refurbishing expenses and utility costs

When our Client is ready to employ staff on the ground, shared office space may no longer be a practical solution. Our Clients’ then secure their own permanent office space.

Permanent Office Space

In every city of India, Maksim Consultants assists our Clients’ secure office or warehouse space to house permanent staff.

Maksim Consultants services include:

• Documenting our Clients’ visualization of desired premises
• Appointing and supervising local quality realty agents
• Visiting and short listing office premises

Negotiating optimum lease terms for our Client including:

• monthly rental
• lease term
• move in date
• free bonus month
• reclaiming VAT or GST on monthly rental costs
• timely stamping the final lease agreement with the relevant Government office
• Ensuring office utilities are activated on time

HR and Staff Recruitment

How we help our Clients’ recruit quality employees

In every State in the India, Maksim Consultants boasts a lot of experience timely securing quality staff for our Clients’. The key to our success is to:

• maximize the interaction with candidates before signing employment contracts and
• ii) minimizing lead time between receiving the candidates resume to signing the employment contract (usually one week)

Some of our Clients may require professional services in drafting an employment contract and a comprehensive employee handbook.

During our high standard one week interview process, Maksim Consultants evaluates the quantity and quality of candidates’deliverables. We evaluate applicants:

• willingness to complete tasks
• speed of email replies
• business writing skills
• common sense and problem solving skills

Maksim Consultants signature recruitment process follows:

• Optimum candidate profile

  • Maksim Consultants and our Client document the optimum candidate qualities, nationality, qualifications, skills, personality type, etc.

• Recruitment advert

  • Drafting a quality advert with our Client final approval
  • Minimizing advertising costs while reaching the target audience

• Resume filtering

  • Maksim Consultants HR department will receive 100’s of resumes and reduce to 10 suitable candidates. We are only interested in candidates with a history of staying with multiple employers for more than 3 years at a time. Job hoppers to be avoided
  • Our HR Department Director immediately rings each candidate to lock them in and explain the recruitment process over the coming week. During the call we evaluate their oral English skills and their common sense

• Completion of questionnaire

  • Maksim Consultants HR department will create a candidate questionnaire to determine:
    • English writing skills
    • Common sense answers to business questions
    • Candidates ability to research answers
    • Candidate expectation from employer over coming 12 months
    • Candidate strengths and weaknesses and
    • Many more revealing questions
  • Maksim Consultants HR Director rates the speed and quality of candidates replies, signaling the hunger of candidate
  • Usually 5 out of the 10 candidates fail to supply Maksim Consultants a quality completed questionnaire

• Personality profile test

• Relevant business tasks

  • If the candidate is still considered a viable employee for the job, he or she will now be asked to perform one or more relatively challenging tasks relevant to our Client business
  • The tasks are particularly helpful for evaluating candidates common sense, simple solution skills, organization and quality of replies, business savvy

• Phone interviews

  • The remaining candidates will convene a phone interview with the Maksim Consultants HR Director. Deliverables from recruitment process to date will be discussed

• Face to face interviews

  • Usually two quality candidates emerge from the above recruitment process
  • Senior staff from our Client company will complete a face to face interview with these candidates

• Employment contract

  • Maksim Consultants agrees with Client and candidate the optimum employment contract, in compliance with local Government employment laws
  • Both candidates sign the other of employment pending:
    • receipt of quality professional references from past employers and
    • completion of a 1 week trial period

• Professional references

  • To secure independent, honest feedback re the remaining two candidates, Maksim Consultants HR Director will ring the business owner and senior supervisors from past employers

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