author: OLIVIA BURNETT
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You’ve just received a call from a recruiter who is offering their services to your company. They're making bold claims about past placements and throwing around words like exclusivity and premium candidates. Questions start running through your mind about whether going through a recruiter when a job becomes vacant is actually worth it. Are recruiters overrated? Is it worth the investment when you could just do it yourself? Do the benefits really outweigh the costs?
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We’re going to bring some clarity to the value of hiring a recruiter and explain why it's important to work to your strengths and outsource wisely.
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Finding Proactive Time is a Mission
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It’s widely known in the business world that time is one of your most valuable assets. Your time is often divided up between proactive time (driving activities through your own energy) and reactive time (reacting to external forces or people; demands for attention from employees, stakeholders, customers, etc). Finding time in your day to be proactive is often a difficult task and when a position in your team opens up that needs to be filled, even more so.
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The recruitment process is an extremely proactive undertaking. It requires delving into copious amounts of resumes, interviews, reference checking, and more interviews.
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The job of a recruiter is to do almost all this work for you, find out your specific desires and requirements and then provide you with the top candidates for you to pick from, rather than an endless pile of eager job seekers who don’t have the qualifications that match the job in the first place.
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Expertise and Niche
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Recruiters work exclusively in their niche on your behalf before you have even realised that you needed them to. Recruitment is where they live and work day in and day out. Whether candidates are active, passive or hidden, recruiters have engaged databases that are constantly being replenished and refined for the exact roles you will be looking to hire for. They are up-to-date with the market, unbiased in regards to workplace politics and are targeted to specific areas within your business which ensures the knowledge of role requirements and an ability to find the best people in the market for your company.
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Speed
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With staff conditions, salaries and other concerns besides the hiring process, locating the best talent can be a lengthy process. If you need to fill a position quickly, working with a recruiter is highly valuable. With candidates at the ready specific to the roles you are looking for, recruiters can have temp and contract roles filled in just a few days.
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If you think about the hiring process as the process of catching fish, a professional fisherman is always going to catch more fish than a hobby fisherman who gets out once a month. Recruiters are in the marketplace every day talking with clients and candidates, tracking movement in different industries and understanding the desired career paths of various candidates. They know the “best places to fish” and the right times to do it if you will. This will always mean a deeper engagement and wider catch of candidates than any online ad or applicant databases.
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Low-Risk
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The beauty of a recruiter is that they do the legwork for you, provide you with the top candidates, and only require payment when you have filled the position with their option. You will not pay for what you do not get. As previously mentioned, the money and time this saves in searching for candidates, wading through resumes and rounds of unsuccessful interviews is significant and ensures you have the best possible employees. That is a process worth investing in. To read more about how to retain your star employees, click here.
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If you are an Accounting/Finance Professional interested in exploring new opportunities in the Brisbane market we’d love to hear from you on (07) 3135 9780. I also encourage you to join our private LinkedIn network Accounting & Finance Professionals in Brisbane (click here). As you probably are aware we do move quite quickly on the roles we recruit for so it pays to stay ahead of the competition. Our group is an exclusive community I am building up for Finance Professionals in Brisbane who want to share job search opportunities, industry news, blogs and other content. You’ll also have an opportunity to network with each other. You might even come across some people you have worked with in the past!
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