Recruitment agencies: how to choose the right recruitment company?
Recruitment is a service that is often chosen by employers who want to get the best candidates quickly and for whom quality screening and attracting candidates is important. This is why recruitment agencies deliver top results in a short timeframe and save employers a huge amount of time by providing recruitment resources that employers do not normally have. The number of recruitment agencies on the market is not large, but it is difficult to choose when there are no criteria that we can set for recruitment companies.
Recruitment agencies that deal with all levels of recruitment projects and recruitment
Non-specialist recruitment firms are those that recruit both support staff and management staff. Often these companies may also be involved in recruitment projects. Broad specialisation is not necessarily a bad thing in recruitment, but broadly specialised recruitment agencies should be treated with caution. If the assigned recruitment project manager develops a wide variety of recruitment projects, he or she may not be strong in the specific area of recruitment required, e.g. executive search or IT specialist recruitment. Employers with low-skilled recruiters tend to choose recruitment agencies with a wide range of specialisms. In this case, they get a relatively inexpensive recruitment service where the qualifications of the employee are not highly demanding and the recruitment firm does not have to demonstrate superior competences in recruitment.
Specialist recruitment firms that only provide recruitment
If a recruitment agency only carries out recruitment and does not offer any other services, it is already a specialised recruitment firm. Typically, specialised recruitment agencies carry out recruitment projects for high-level professionals and executives. Such recruitment firms are distinguished by their highly qualified recruitment specialists, who often have a strict specialisation, e.g. only working on marketing, sales, IT recruitment. By choosing a specialised recruitment agency, you can expect the highest quality and the best candidates on the market. Such recruitment firms are useful when you are looking for an experienced professional or a top manager and the cost of error is high.
Measuring the experience of a recruitment agency
Once several recruitment agencies have been selected, the final step is to decide which is the most suitable. Normally, if the pricing of all the selected recruitment firms is appropriate, it is worth comparing the competence and experience of the recruitment project manager assigned to the recruitment project. This professional will both supervise the whole recruitment process, represent the employer in front of the candidates and provide candidate evaluations after rejecting unsuitable candidates. This position is the most responsible in the whole recruitment project, so when choosing a recruitment agency, it is important to make sure that the recruiter appointed by the agency is a professional of the highest level.
If the recruitment project manager appointed by the recruitment agency is suitable, then it is also necessary to find out how many similar recruitment projects the recruitment agency itself has carried out in the last year. This question is important in order to find out how quickly the recruitment firm will be able to offer candidates and how fresh its database of suitable candidates is. Normally, by consistently carrying out similar recruitment projects, a recruitment firm can build up a particularly large database of suitable candidates which it can quickly use to offer the best candidates on the market when needed.
