The Key Benefits of Using Recruitment Consultants

THE KEY BENEFITS OF USING RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS Recruitment consultancy is a professional occupation and, like any other, by that very accolade guarantees a level of professionalism and insight that you would be hard pressed to expect from the layman – or even from an in-house specialist who, by default, is isolated from the vagaries of the labour market in a way that a recruitment consultant is not.

Recruitment consultants have an extraordinary talent for finding the right people to fill very specific job roles. The benefits of utilising a recruitment agency can be much greater than, as already mentioned, of trying to find and hire their own personnel, even if those in-house staff responsible come from a similar background. Reputable recruitment consultants maintain an up to date database of people with a large variety of skills and expertise, but they are also experts (usually) at making the most of social network sites and other similar resources to attract the very best candidates available.

Undoubtedly, the greatest benefit of using a recruitment consultant is the fact that they are able to select the most appropriate candidates from the agency’s voluminous database or, on the other hand, if it's a more specialised role you are looking for, they have the systems in place, and intuitive experience needed for this kind of role, to find that individual from their other sources. Never has there been as high a number of jobs seekers in the labour market as there are right now, which sounds an advantage to the employer but can prove a significant hindrance, with a significantly higher number of inappropriate applications than there are appropriate ones. Recruitment consultants can take care of this issue for through a bespoke yet tried and tested filtering system that selects the best potential candidates for your consideration. Applicant filtering is probably the most time consuming and costly part of the hiring process but recruitment consultants take are of that for you through rigorous interviews and skills assessments to provide you with candidates that meet the necessary standards.

It is often the case at the beginning of the recruitment process that the advert goes out, a basic selection process occurs and then days, weeks even months worth of interviews will follow at the end of which the company in question is no nearer selecting one of the candidates than when they started. The company spends a huge amount of time and money on the advertising and on the man hours needed for the interviewing process, and end up with several hundred applicants who are either ill qualified or inexperienced for the role advertised. By using a recruitment consultant it is far easier to filter such inappropriate applicants out of the process as they will will only offer the company candidates who tick all the boxes regarding essential requirements for the position advertised.

The financial savings to a company in using a recruitment consultant are huge, potentially saving months of fruitless hard work and expenditure on the recruitment process. It is not only cost efficient to use a recruitment agency then, but just as productive in the sense of quality of candidates put forward.