Why do employers need to use a recruitment agency?
One of the most frequently asked and burning questions that always gets asked in the recruitment marketplace by a potential hiring employer is “Why do I as an employer need to use a recruitment agency?”
Quite simply! You may not need to use a recruitment agency. However, just like running any professional business you will know that from time to time you might not want to use a lawyer or an accountant?
However, in order for you to get the best advice or results, sometime you just do not have the right people, knowledge or skills around you to help you get the task or job done.
That’s when you are going to have to either make that call or work together with an external professional organisation that you can trust to provide you with the service and the information that you require in order for you to move your business forward. Making that call can indeed be at times a tricky one. Unless, you know someone or indeed if you have been recommended a recruitment agency to call.
Many of the issues that do occur within the recruitment sector are when the employer and the recruitment firm have just not nailed the “assignment brief” and what follows on from there can be a bit like the Good, the Bad or indeed the ugly face of dealing with people.
People are a “very different commodity” and hence when you have decided that you need to use external advice or services it is then just like any other task “You, want to make sure that you have got the right Professional’s on board”.
If you are having to look externally for the first time then just like you would do in your own business it is important to check out and do your homework on any new potential suppliers!
One of the quickest and most helpful sources for any future employers looking at using a recruitment firm would be to start by making a referral call into the “REC”.
The Recruitment and Employment Association” is the leading governing UK voice for its members and by making a simple call into their head office you will very quickly be given a reference guide of audited and operating regional recruitment agencies working within your field of experiences, which means that right away you are being matched up with professionals from day one that can “talk your language” and understand your business.
Once you have identified a Recruitment Agency that might be in your area or close to your location then it is all done to making that initial call.
There are several reasons that a professional recruitment company can instantly help you, including:
Discuss a wide range of broad talent that could be available that you are not aware of in the market.
Help you write the advert and job description.
Manage the initial candidate response through screening and initial interview process.
Above all it is about getting the right agency with the right people and knowledge to understand your business and help provide you with the lost cost effective solution that means the needs of your business.
This advice was supplied by Xpress Recruitment
