Do You Need A Professional Recruiter?

What's The Difference Between A Recruiter And A Recruitment Agency?

If you're a UK employer, you will already have experienced recruitment agency services and will probably have reached  the conclusion that many are simply nothing more than a "necessary evil".

The endless telephone sales calls to your managers and HR departments, the constant mass mailing of unsolicited CV's, the inevitable fee disputes with competing agencies - and that's just for starters.

In amongst all of this noise and confusion, somebody, somewhere provides a recruitment service and you end up paying a fee.

But are you getting value for money?

My name is David Carter and I spent 20+ years in the UK recruitment industry covering senior level and IT appointments.

Ten of those 20 years were spent running my own IT recruitment agency, dealing with many of the UK's leading employers.

Some time ago, I decided that I didn't really like the way most recruitment agencies operate and spent some time considering what employers actually wanted and how they could get better value for the services provided.

My answer was to offer a professional recruitment service as opposed to an agency service.

What this means is a level of service that is geared exclusively to the needs of the client.

It's a service that allows employers to pick and choose what elements of the recruitment process they would like assistance with and of course, this affects the price they pay.

It's quite simply the most flexible recruitment service you've ever experienced.

There's no candidate database, no job board advertising, no telesales calls - in fact none of the things that most employers complain most about.

Let's examine the preceding statement a little more closely;

No Candidate Database

If you think about it, a recruitment agency database contains details of candidates from previous advertising. These were the unsuccessful candidates.

Is that you want? The best of the rest?

Even if a database search identified a potentially suitable candidate, how long ago was the person looking for a job? 6 months, a year, 2 years? Longer?

At best, these candidates are only vaguely interested in pursuing a job application with you.

For this reason, I don't maintain any kind of candidate database.

Candidates have to want the job - and to determine the level of interest, they need to specifically apply for it.

No Job Board Advertising

Job boards, specialist job advertising web sites have come along way since they were introduced in the late 1990's.

There's a lot more automation and now candidates can register with a job board and have their CV sent automatically to any and all vacancies that match certain key words, phrases, job titles, geographical locations or salary requirements.

It seems like a good idea, until you realise that when you register details of your vacancies with recruitment agencies, they will all receive the same applications from the same people.

That's when the race starts to get the CV in front of you, possibly resulting in disputes over agency fees.

But that aside, ask yourself if the most highly skilled, most suitable and employable candidate is likely to be registering with these job sites.

Or, are the best candidates already employed elsewhere and happy in their employment?

Who would you rather employ? Someone who indiscriminately (and often without their knowledge) applies for every job using automation, or somebody that sees your particular vacancy and physically has to read it and recognise it for the opportunity it is?

I know who I'd prefer to see on my short list.

No Telesales Calls

Imagine your life free of telesales calls from recruitment agencies. You know the ones.

Somebody you've probably never spoken to before calls you out of the blue, acts like (s)he's your best friend and casually asks whether you have vacancies they can help with today.

Everyone has a job to do, but you'll surely remember that feeling when the fifth or sixth recruitment agency calls comes in that day and you're not even half way through your to-do list.

That's why my service comes with an absolute guarantee - I'll never cold-call you.

This is a professional recruitment service and it's completely passive. My clients come to me after visiting this web site, or because somebody recommended me.

This is a professional recruitment service you can use when you want, without having to worry about multiple follow-up calls next month.

Business is about making choices. So is recruitment.

You can start making the right choices by calling me, David Carter on 01564 824554 or 07800 790427 and I'll show you a better, more cost effective and efficient way of recruiting executive, managerial and IT staff.