Reasons to Use a Recruitment Agency

Recruiting candidates to fill a new position can be a costly, time-consuming, and a frustrating process, and in a candidate-short market, can often be the cause of a vast amount of wasted resources for the organisation. Choosing the best recruitment agency to help employers find the best talent for the position can be extremely beneficial; not only in finding the best candidate for the position, but finding them in a timely process where the company can negotiate the cost.

Most organisations do not have an in-house recruitment department; meaning it becomes an enormous additional task for a HR manager or hiring manager within the company, whom are likely pre-occupied with many ongoing projects regardless. For organisations like this, the best answer can be hiring a recruitment agency like g2 Recruitment, who are experts in the industries they recruit in, can offer specialist market-insight, and can make the process quick, and easy. Keep reading for our top reasons on why you should use a recruitment agency like g2 Recruitment.

1 Time-Saving

Using job sites such as Indeed and Reed can mean that thousands of candidates can apply for the same role, a large amount of them being unqualified for the position the organisation is actually hiring for. This results in lots of wasted hours sifting through homogenous CVs, to find candidates that may not be seriously looking, or even bother to show up for the interview.

Using a recruitment agency like g2 Recruitment means that they will do all the hard work for the organisation, offering the best 2-4 candidates for the role. All the organisation then needs to do is show up to the interview, which the recruitment agency will schedule for them. The company can benefit from hiring interesting, enthusiastic, and most importantly qualified candidates, and pick the one they feel is the best fit for them.

2 Cost-Effective Method

Hiring for a new position is a costly affair. By using a Recruitment agency like g2 Recruitment, there is a myriad of cost benefits, in both the short and long term.

Short Term

For any position, the business will have to advertise that the position is available. Whether that be through job platforms such as Indeed or Reed, in newspapers, or magazines, all advertising costs money. By hiring a recruitment agency, they will incur any cost of advertising the role, rather than it coming out of the business' pocket.

By using a recruitment agency instead of the hiring manager, the business removes the impact of an added workload on the hiring manager or HR manager, who can continue to perform as normal and fulfil their normal day-to-day tasks.

Using your in-house staff to hire can sometimes result in the wrong candidate being hired for the position. This can result in short-term costs, such as having to re-advertise the role, any ongoing consequences of their bad performance, having to re-train a new candidate, and bringing on a new candidate.

Long Term

If the business continues to use the same recruitment agency, such as g2 Recruitment, then the Recruitment Consultants they work with will have a great concept of the company culture and values and what qualities the candidates themselves need to have. That can make the process less costly, and more time-efficient in the future.

By agreeing to let a recruitment agency hire for multiple positions, there may the negotiation for a better rate. This could be worth considering when thinking about how many positions the business wants to hire for at once.

3 Identifying the Best Talent

The recruitment agency, such as g2 Recruitment, will have ongoing discussions with the employer as well as multiple candidates. They will have expert market knowledge because of this, and be able to spot the best talent from the large pool of candidates.

Candidates that are not currently looking for a new role would most likely not be interested by a job advert created internally by the business. However, by hiring a recruitment agency like g2 Recruitment, they can make contact with these candidates directly, and sell not only the role but the business itself. This means that by hiring a recruitment agency, many more options are opened.

By having expert market-knowledge, the Recruitment Consultant may have industry insight that allows them to explore different areas of the world, or different industries to find the best talent that may not have been thought of by the business. By hiring a recruitment agency, many more candidates become available, meaning the business is more likely to hire the best person for the role.

4 Negotiating Salaries

By using a recruitment agency, the recruitment consultant the business works with will have expert knowledge on what salaries are being accepted by candidates, and what the business should be expecting to pay. This means that they can give instant feedback on what the business' expectations are, and what candidates in the industry will be expecting. This not only prepares the business so that no nasty surprises occur at the end, but means that the company will not be overpaying candidates, or not attracting the best candidates by underpaying.

5 Market Experts

Another benefit of using a recruitment agency is that they are industry experts. They spend their day talking to both clients and candidates, and therefore have the best industry-grade knowledge to provide the business with the best insight on where to hire, how much to pay, what is unrealistic, and what they can get for the salary they are willing to pay for that role. Hiring a recruitment agency means that you are guaranteed not only the best candidate for the role, but best insight on salary negotiation and timelines.

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