As an employer in today's highly competitive and candidate-driven market, hiring and retaining ideal candidates can seem impossible. If you are struggling to find the right candidates, have you considered that using the right recruitment agency could be the solution to all of your hiring needs?
Discovering top talent and improving retention comes from using the right recruitment agency. However, finding a genuine recruitment agency that has the required skills for your position isn't always easy. So how do you find the right recruitment agency for your company? Read our 5 simple steps to choosing the right recruitment agency below...
1. Understand Your Company Requirements
First, you need to clearly define your company requirements. How many employees do you need help hiring? What type of position are you looking to fill? What type of employee are you looking for and what skills do they need?
I suggest providing a document detailing your company’s expectations and needs. The more information you provide; the better we can market your company to our top-candidates and the quicker you have a quality hire placed that aligns with your requirements.
2. Choose the Right Type of Recruitment Agency
An agency that specialises in your industry will have recruitment experts with larger networks of potential hires specific to your needs. You will also benefit from the recruiter's knowledge in the hiring market and their understanding for your field.
But how do you know if they truly are experts in your field? Don't just take their word for it. Learn about their candidate pool and test their knowledge.
121 Recruitment have been successfully recruiting for our clients within the construction industry for a many years, which means our vast networks and extensive candidate pool's will meet all your construction recruitment needs.
3. What are their Hiring Strategies?
It is absolutely essential to ask a recruitment agency about their recruitment and hiring strategy before making your decision. The best agencies will have steps to verify that candidate's are up to standard and honest when it comes to their skills & experience. Asking to review these steps and strategies can give you an insight into how well the agency will work for you.
Our Hiring Strategy and proactive, signature approach continues to prove successful and our vigilant team stay ahead of the curve by looking out for ways to improve. Find out more about our process by checking out our website.
4. Reputation Matters!
The best decision is an informed decision, and the partnership with a recruitment agency should not be taken lightly. Therefor, you should always do your research and go beyond checking their website;
Ask for references or Case studies
Checkout testimonials and reviews on their socials (e.g - Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.) Consider getting in touch with people to see what they thought of the agency.
Checkout employee's online. Are they happy? Are employee's staying?
We are pleased to share that over the past 2 months, 121 Recruitment have had a 100% success rate in placing our candidates into white and blue collar positions. We strive to give the best possible service we can and spend time vetting and interviewing all candidates of all levels within the construction and M&E industry.
Every interviewee for a perm vacancy has been offered the position and every blue collar vacancy we have received we have successfully placed.
5. Customer Service
Having good customer service is such an important factor in building successful and continuous partnerships. You should look for an agency that always puts your needs first and responds quickly.
Before partnering with an agency, why don't you test their response time? Call the office or send a message to see how long their response time is and what type of response you get.
121 Recruitment pride ourselves on our customer service. Our goal is to transform the perception of recruitment agencies. We strive to exceed the expectations of each candidate and client by applying our signature 1-2-1 approach. Contact us today to see how we can exceed your expectations.
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