Why use a job recruiter?
The right job recruiter can pair you up with candidates that are a great fit for your company. In addition, since a job recruiter’s reputation depends on how well they serve you, it’s more often than not a successful partnership that can put you further ahead in building a successful team than if you had used traditional means like job postings.
The true cost of a bad hire – it’s more than you think. So, no matter what industry you operate in, it shouldn’t hurt to have a recruiter or two in your network should you ever require their services. There are so many benefits to using a job recruiter, and we’ll discuss some of these below.
Time-saving
If you’ve ever had to spend hours drafting and posting job openings across a variety of websites and social networks, entering and re-entering the same information over and over again, you’ll love working with a recruiter. That’s because a recruiter’s sole job is to attract the right candidate to fill whatever vacancy they’re assigned to fulfill. Recruiters are especially helpful in situations where you have obligations that prevent you from giving your full attention to hiring. So, whether your expertise doesn’t lie in human resources, business is busy, or you simply have too many responsibilities, using a recruiter’s help is worthwhile.
Access to a pre-built network
It takes good marketing, search engine optimization, and a proactive approach to make sure your job posting reaches the most suitable candidates. Putting all of your efforts into a singular approach could leave you unable to find the right person. Besides, not all business owners have proficiency in all the relevant networking systems. On the other hand, recruiters maintain a broad and constantly growing network of professionals with whom they share new posts and job openings. Recruiters know who to reach out to and how to find the right candidates; all you have to do is give them the necessary details to share with candidates.
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Your success is their success
Recruiters get paid by filling positions, so the most motivated recruiters will work as hard as possible to fill the job positions assigned to them as soon and as accurately as possible because it’s how they make their living. This makes recruiters a wise investment, as it’s often much more expensive to constantly re-hire and re-train new employees than investing in a recruiter. Recruiters have their own motivations, too. And, more importantly, your success is a recruiter’s success. If they repeatedly place the right people in the right positions, they benefit from a good market positioning and gain more business.
Confidentiality
Depending on the nature of your industry, you may place yourself at a competitive disadvantage by disclosing vacancies, compensation, or other internal information about your company. Recruiters can protect you by redacting or withholding this information and only giving potential hires essential information about the position. It also protects your company from getting too many calls, emails, and other correspondence from job seekers who may not be qualified for the position. This is especially true of higher-paying or executive positions in large firms, where the job title is linked to a highly sought-after accomplishment or status.
Hire outside your area
Some industries experience labour shortages in highly specialized fields, and it’s up to hired recruiters to help staff these positions with suitable candidates. Suppose you’re finding it hard to hire a suitable candidate for a specific position in your area. In that case, recruiters present a unique opportunity to search for and hire candidates from different geographical areas. Recruiters have an outstanding knowledge of the different types of businesses. So, they can see beyond the job description to find employees capable of positively impacting your business, regardless of where they live.
Cost-efficiency
If you have a human resources department, it usually makes sense to rely on it to fill employment vacancies. Still, the truth is that the HR department usually already has too many responsibilities to manage of hiring effectively. Think of how many employees need to be involved to properly recruit, interview, look into references, hire and onboard someone. Your other option is to offload all this work onto one person in Human Resources, but doing that can disrupt the whole department. It can also prevent them from focusing on potentially more critical internal matters. So, using a recruiter to do some recruitment work for you not only presents a tremendous cost-saving, but it also prevents your Human Resources department from getting overloaded with extra work.
Tailored solutions
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to working with a recruiter, which is one of the greatest benefits of working with them. Some companies are young, trendy, and fast-paced, while others lean more towards tradition. Recruiters make it their job to know this and apply this knowledge to finding you the right candidates. Moreover, if you post vacancies on job boards and social networks where the general audience can’t be segmented or targeted, you run the risk of having your job posting lost among the rest. A law firm looking for an attorney, for example, has a better chance of finding the right fit by using a recruiter that specializes in this industry than it does by posting the vacancy on a job board among postings for technicians, educators, labourers, and other unrelated roles.
Personal approach
Candidates feel a sense of importance and value when a recruiter singles them out. Put yourself in a job seeker’s shoes: perhaps they’ve been applying to every opening they can find without any luck; maybe they’re competing with hundreds of other qualified applicants. It’s easy for them to lose hope in the process when nothing they do seems to be working. When recruiters directly reach out to these candidates and make a cordial first introduction, they instill a sense of being wanted by your company, which can only benefit you in the long run if you end up hiring them.
