Recruitment agencies can be a game changer for businesses, providing expertise, support and resources to help streamline your recruitment process and supply the right talent for your company. But how do you know when it’s time to bring in the professionals? Here are the top 7 signs that you need a recruitment agency:
High staff turnover rates can be costly and disruptive to your business. If you feel your business is constantly needing to replace employees who leave – it’s a sign that something is amiss. Here’s where we could help:
- Job Shadows: We will offer to perform your job role, to gain first hand knowledge of the environment and type of candidate you require, so we can seek those who have the right skills and experience but also the right cultural fit too.
- Site Tours: We offer site tours to interested applicants before they accept a position within your company, so they can assess the working environment for themselves and decide if it is right for them.
- Staff Surgeries: We can offer a ‘staff surgery’ onsite to speak with our candidates confidentially, to discuss any issues that are affecting them in or outside of the workplace, to help to reduce staff absences and leavers.
If your positions are remaining unfilled longer than usual, causing operational disruptions, an agency may be able to help you to speed up your hiring process:
- Database of candidates: We have access to the thousands of registered, compliance checked, reference checked and screened job seekers on our system, who are readily available to work, who may be the perfect fit for your business before we need to source candidates online!
- Proactive candidate sourcing: Why not double up and have an extra team on hand to source your next hire? Our marketing team has built a Facebook community of 240,000+ members that we can reach immediately and free of charge! Plus our access to CV searching facilities means we can spend time head hunting talent for you.
The hiring process can be incredibly time-consuming. If you or your HR team are overwhelmed with CV’s, interviews and background checks, it might be time to outsource, we can help to alleviate some of the administrative burden. Recruitment agencies handle these tasks efficiently, allowing you to focus on your core business activities. We can send suitable candidate profiles straight to your inbox so you only need to focus on interviewing the right people for your business.
Did you know, in the UK, on average 80% of CVs do not get shortlisted by recruiters? Meaning they don’t make it past the first screen! (Standout CV, May 2023)
Our services include:
- Writing a job advert
- Advertising vacancy with in house marketing assistance
- Filtering through advert response
- Rejecting unsuitable applicants
- Screening suitable applicants
- Performing compliance checks
- Peforming reference checks
- Conducting initial face to face interviews
- New starter check ins to provide support on the new starters first day
Are you finding it difficult to attract qualified candidates for your open positions? If so, there are a number of ways an agency can help. We have access to CV searching facilities to filter job seekers by their skillset, our inhouse marketing team can create tailored recruitment campaigns, we can use our advertising budget to sponsor your roles online to increase the exposure of your vacancy and we also offer a FREE video marketing service to attract new talent to your roles.
We increased applications from the right calibre of candidate to one of our client’s vacancies by 167%
- We placed 50% more workers into a role at a Barnsley client between Sept 13th – Oct 14th 2022, with video marketing, compared to the previous month of Aug 10th – Sept 12th
- We increased views by 564% to a Rotherham client job advert with video marketing
- We filled 10 bookings + 2 backfills for a Burton client, within 10 days after using video marketing & site tours were being performed every other day
- Applications increased by 500% for a Chesterfield client with video marketing
Specialised Positions:
Certain positions that require highly specialised skills are not always easy to find. When working with an agency we can head hunt talent for you, including passive job seekers, who may not be actively looking but would be open to the right opportunity.
We can also provide you with hiring insights, including salary benchmarking and competitor offers to help to keep you competitive within the market.
- Essential Professional: We have a dedicated department who specialise in recruiting higher skilled candidates for permanent vacancies.
Rapid Company Growth / Scaling Challenges:
If your company is planning to grow or expand, you’ll need to ramp up hiring quickly and efficiently. Recruitment agencies can help you scale your workforce to meet your growth goals without compromising on the quality of hires. We can scale up recruitment during peak seasons and periods of growth, building up a list of available candidates to have on standby ready to fill your vacant roles at short notice. Our 24 hour contact service is available for emergencies outside of our office hours, should you require assistance if extra staff are needed urgently.
We can also supply an extra on each shift to ensure there is no disruption to production if required. We can also work closely with you to have rotas in advance and fill vacancies ahead of time. We can provide regular weekly or bi-weekly meetings with Supervisors & Managers to ensure demands are being met and addressing any issues that are arising.
Desire for Improved Quality of Hires:
If you’re experiencing issues with the quality of your hires, it’s a sign that your recruitment process needs improvement. There are a variety of ways we can help to provide a solution:
- Bespoke screening process: We can tailor the onboarding process to be personalised to you. We can provide skills testing and other tests as part of the onboarding process to make sure the candidate is suitable.
- Face to Face Interviews: We prioritise face-to-face interviews to assess the candidate’s disposition and cultural fit, and provide an in-depth analysis into the candidate’s previous work history.
- Induction Assistance: We can assist in the induction, which are tailored completely to your business, to make sure they are fully prepared for their first day and have had the required health and safety training.
- Temp to Perm Contracts: Take advantage of our temp to perm contracts, to assess your new hire over a probation period to make sure that you are both the right fit for each other before offering a permanent contract.
Recognising these signs can help you decide when it’s time to partner with a recruitment agency. By leveraging our expertise and resources, you can streamline your hiring process, attract top talent and focus on what you do best. If any of these signs resonate with your current situation, it might be the perfect time to explore what a recruitment agency can offer you.
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