Five reasons to use recruitment agencies today

Using a recruitment agency is often seen as a luxurious way to recruit talent. People think to advertise the role directly or use internal staff to do it because “it’s cheaper”.

In business, as in life, everyone is on the scale of money and time. Usually you have loads of one, and less of the other. Using a recruitment agency often makes more sense when you have more money and less time.

Recruiting takes time, and if you have the budget then you can benefit from all what a recruitment agency brings to get qualified candidates:

Eyes on market

The more resources you have on the case looking for your next successful hire the better. A recruitment agency like RECRUITERS has over thirty sets of eyes full time on the candidate market. We are talking to candidates all day to understand who is who, who is open to moving and what they want to do next. Candidate attitude is everything. ?If someone has 10 years’ experience but are sick of doing that job, then it’s all for nothing. There are economies of scale realised through our database of qualified candidates and how candidates are coded that enables our recruiters dig out the right talent for our clients from a skills and motivation perspective, fast.?

Time

This level of focus is time saving for hiring manages because you get to meet informed suitable candidates for your roles and organisation as opposed to the smorgasbord you get from advertising and sometimes from your internal talent teams, which are often located in different countries with less understanding of the Irish market.

In your working day, there are always five-dollar jobs and one-hundred-dollar jobs. When screening too many unsuitable candidates become a five-dollar job, then turn to a good recruiter and benefit from all the other advantages too.

Phone Numbers

There is a lot of talent on LinkedIn. It’s like a sweetshop of talent that could enable your business to grow. If only you could get some of them to engage! The power of a recruitment agency network is that we have phone numbers for people and the phone is still king.

Online messages galore can be ignored or easily missed in a very busy digital world. Email, Text Messages, WhatsApp, LinkedIn – so many mediums for people to check.

Many candidates we get job offers for with our clients get a phone call out of the blue and happen to be both passive and interested in what we have to say. That is the true value of a good recruitment partner - finding candidates that you cannot reach normally.

The stats are that around 15% of the market are looking at Job Adverts and sending out CVs. There is a further 30% that are passive, they are thinking of moving, just not yet active. The trick is how to reach this 30%.

This is where we come in. We can reach them when you cannot.

Influence

Are you great at selling yourself and your company? Most people find these 2 things the hardest things to sell. A third-party recruiter selling your brand and company has a lot of influence.

?There are a lot of super candidates out there that would be a great match for your company and culture, they just have no idea until we point them in your direction.

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We add 1,000 candidates a month to our database of 150,000 registered candidates. Many apply for one job and end up interviewing for a much more suitable one. We are the conduit. Most candidates expect that from us.

They want to know what is out there in the market as opposed to applying to one or two companies themselves directly.

When we do a good job for our clients through selection, we also do a great job for our candidates, and everyone wins.

Overview

What does great look like? Candidate selection is key to our reputation as Ireland’s most trusted recruitment partner. We are looking at multiple factors to make decisions about candidates we approach for the hiring managers we work with. Once we understand your formula for success, we continue to repeat it. Many of our clients say "you know Paul who you placed with us? He is fantastic, please find us another Paul".

This, internally, is one benchmark of success for us.

Final thoughts

So yes, there is a cost to agency hires, but what is the cost of not getting the best candidates for your organisation?