Every organization go through recruitment process all the time. Being an organization in a particular field, the business owners or business heads are expert in their industry / field. Recruitment in itself is a vast process and requires specific skills to find right talent.
Hiring a recruitment consultant can offer several benefits specially when you need to quickly fill open vacancies in your organization or if your establishment is a small or medium company where you can’t afford to have a dedicated team of recruiters. Lets see what benefits does a recruitment consultants brings to you:
- Pool of Passive Candidates: Many candidates are not actively seeing new job opportunities. But, recruitment consultants have the skills, connections and updated database which help them to reach out to those passive candidates.
- Expertise and Industry Knowledge: Since a recruitment consultant is working for various organizations of same industry, the are more aware of industry based talent requirements, realistic & unrealistic expectations from job seekers.
- Administrative & Other Cost Savings: Recruitment consultant will handle various tasks at different levels of recruitment process including, posting job advertisement, filter-out relevant resumes, interacting with candidates, answering their queries, calendar setting up for interview etc etc. Infact, a recruitment consultant will even help to prepare job description (JD) and give suggestions as per current market trend & demands.
- Shorter Time-to-Hire & Better Negotiations: A recruitment consultant can speed-up the whole process with their existing database of job seekers and connections, follow-ups. Even, they can help to negotiate better to secure top talent with their negotiation skills with compelling offers and helping to meet win-win solution for concerns both from company and candidate.
- Long-Term Relationship: This obviously helps any organization in a long-run. If you have a trusted and faithful long-term relationship, a recruitment consultant can bring a relevant top talent to your door even if you haven’t asked for. A recruitment consultant can work as your extended team members who know their job and don’t need any supervision.
Overall, a recruitment consultant brings lot of value addition to your company even if its a small entrepreneur establishment. What makes them apart is the fact that they are very connected to job seekers, understands market & candidate’s required (since they are working with different customers for same profiles), knows some industry hiring standards etc.
We at Cocentrus, as a recruitment consultant have been working since 2014 to help organizations fill-up their open vacancies with relevant talents as quickly as possible. Over the years, we have built many long-term relations with our customers to work as a hand-distance-aways recruitment team.