Many companies are content to seek out new talent through traditional means, utilizing advertisement across multiple job boards and sifting through endless resumes. While this is all well and good for some, many companies have turned to using recruiters to not only seek out quality talent, but ensure that talent sticks around for the long haul. As such, recruiters can make a significant difference in your hiring strategy.
This Is Their Job
Hiring managers or team leads often lack the enthusiasm recruiters have in finding top talent. Whereas those from within the company would prefer to focus on their primary duties, finding the best man or woman for the job is the primary duty of the recruiter. Not only do they enjoy it, they seek out new ways to improve their skills and abilities, which only helps you in the long run.
Recruiters are Independent
Given their role as outsiders, recruiters are able and willing to ask more direct and specific questions, such as about finances, and personal goals, to help discover the best candidates. Furthermore, candidates speaking with a recruiter tend to be more forthright with information, which can help weed out those unsuitable for specific roles.
Recruiters Find Candidates That You Can’t Generally Find
Simply put, recruiters have the time and resources to find the best talent available, rather than the best of what’s available. The best person for your company is someone working at a competitor, nose down, and definitely not looking for new work. Recruiters will reach out to these individuals and discuss their options with them, which is something most hiring managers simply don’t have time to do.
Recruiters Have a Broader Perspective
They’ve been in the industry long enough to spot red flags that might be overlooked in traditional hiring methods, and have the resources available to dig deeper into a candidate’s qualifications and background.
Recruiters Are Cost Effective
Recruiters are offering a service, and that service costs money. While some companies might balk at the notion of paying someone to do something you can do, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.Turnover is expensive, and hiring the wrong person can not only cost a company money, it can result in lost time, resources, morale, relationships, and opportunity. Recruiters focus on quality over quantity, and in the end, a small fee is mere peanuts when looking at the long term benefits.
Recruiters Have a Process
Finding the best possible candidate for your company is what recruiters do. As a result, they’re comfortable with the process of doing so. From spending the time to meet with the client and understand their needs to helping the client resign from their previous job and begin the next step in their career, recruiters are there every step of the way.
Recruiters Offer Guarantees
Since companies pay recruiters to find them the best possible candidates, the recruiter has an incentive to make everyone happy. FInding the right person for the job leads to repeat business, which in turn keeps both the recruiter and company happy and ensuring a mutually beneficial relationship for years to come. Should a candidate not work out, any recruiter worth his or her salt will offer some form of a guarantee.
