Recruiting Your Recruiter
May 29th, 2019
Building and shaping a collaborative and successful team is the difference between business success and failure. No matter how sophisticated your technology or how faultless your reputation; without a fruitful workforce you will struggle to accomplish your ultimate goals.
Engaging a recruitment expert to help support your people structure is often viewed as nonessential, expensive and laborious. However, by carefully selecting your recruiter their expertise can provide numerous benefits to your recruitment process.
When choosing a recruitment agency it’s important that you seek a relationship and not just a transaction. A recruitment team should strive to be an extension of your own team and not a transactional body with whom you exchange only to fulfil an immediate vacancy. Your recruiter should offer support and guidance, provide you with insight and help you review your requirements against company culture as well as the singular job spec.
You want your recruiter to embed themselves within your own workplace culture, to ensure that they understand your business values. Gaining an understanding of your business culture and values allows the recruiter to match like-minded individuals to roles where they will feel motivated, united and comfortable. Getting this wrong can lead to team imbalances, misinterpretation of goals and inevitably an under-performing team.
Your recruiter should do the hard work for you, utilising their network of professionals to deliver you the best quality candidates within a reasonable timeframe. When looking for a recruiter ask them for their ‘CV to interview’ success rate, this will help you gauge their ability to provide you with quality candidates. Your recruiter should demonstrate professionalism and credibility in their field, providing you with confidence in the relationship you are building with them. Too often than not customers are passed from pillar to post, and the lack of continuity that derives from this generates the well-known transactional relationship that lacks honesty and trust.
Recruiting your recruiter should be painless if they share in the above. You’re looking for a partner who understands your business, team make-up and future ambitions. They should value your short-term requirements whilst always tying back to your long-term vision. They should be ready to react to any changing requirements and happy to support you when timescales might be tight.
For more information on how Apply recruitment can support your people requirements please get in touch with Rob on rob.riley@applyrecruitment.co.uk
