Recruitment – a chore?

Recruitment for many is a necessary chore, but it doesn’t have to be. Recruitment is needed for growth and to combat attrition however, it is often a process that is executed poorly internally and, indeed, by some agencies. Recruitment is a core management skill that is often not taught well, or at all. Do you remember your first time as an interviewer? It was probably as terrifying for you as it was for the interviewee!

It’s time consuming; imagine you are recruiting an Accounts Assistance position on Seek; you could expect up to 280 applications - a review of these applications would take about 70 hours, allowing 15mins per CV and notification to the unsuccessful. You get to a shortlist of 10 candidates; you ring them to arrange an interview and discover 5 have already found an alternative role as you took 3 weeks to review all the applications! You offer the other 5 candidates a face-to-face interview, not realising that 3 of them have been unimpressed by your candidate management to date and now the role sounds a little dull. 10 hours later you have interviewed the 5 candidates; you ring to offer your preferred candidate only to discover she has already accepted another role paying $10k more than you were able to offer. Surely there must be an easier way? Well there is Employee Matters …

We will write and place your ads to attract the best candidates and deter the unsuitable ones with the use of a screening questionnaire. We will respond to every candidate, acknowledging their application and protecting your brand. We will review the applications and questionnaires and formally advise the unsuccessful candidates. We will phone-screen the initial cull to assess skills, motivation and salary expectations to avoid you wasting your time at interview. Following this, we will provide you with the top candidates for interview. We can even complete your ‘right to work’, reference and background checks. We have years of recruitment experience and charge an hourly rate depending on your preference.  Let us work as your trusted internal recruiter, with no vested interest in getting a placement fee of 15% or more of the total compensation.

It should be expected that for most Managers the average time to recruit would be up to 50 hours, if done well.  With our skill sets and recruitment systems it would take an average of 25-35 hours for us and 4 hours of your time to interview the preferred candidates. Let us take away your pain, provide you with better screened candidate and help you hire the right people to build your business.

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Natasha Hawker owns Employee Matters Pty Ltd; an HR Consultancy that assists small to medium businesses with their HR functions to make them more efficient and profitable. Their offering includes HR Management, Recruitment, Training, Coaching, and Exit Management – find them at www.employeematters.com.au