It probably goes without saying, the recruitment process can be both time-consuming and costly.
From sifting through CVs to paying for your vacancies to be advertised and more, the time and financial costs of recruitment can add up quite quickly – and that’s before you take into account that your prospective candidates may decide to not even accept your job offer!
To add to the challenge, Brexit and Covid-19 have propelled us into a candidate-led market; i.e., where talented candidates are fewer and far-between, and are the ones being sought by businesses, rather than candidates fighting for roles (as was the case just a few short years ago).
Thankfully, recruitment agencies near Gloucester such as i2i Recruitment are on hand to not only help source and attract these gold-dust candidates for you, but keep the monetary and time costs associated with this down! Read on to find out how…
Recruitment agencies will save you time by:
1. Creating your job adverts
With so many job opportunities out there for candidates now, writing job adverts is no longer simply a case of describing what the role is, or what salary the successful candidate can expect; instead, it needs to be exciting, enticing and persuasive in order to attract the right calibre of candidate.
You’ll even need to think as far down as the job title and not just what is included in the role, but how this will benefit them in order to stand out from your competitors and attract a truly high calibre of candidate.
What’s more, the way businesses treated their employess during the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighed and emphasised the significance of employer branding for candidates seeking roles. This includes thinking about flexible and hybrid/remote working opportunities, work-life balance, and what is a truly essential part of the job role.
Being able to consider and include all the above is a skill that takes some time and practice, so if this is something your current team are missing, it can take a while to get right, or you may find yourself using up more time to keep amending the advert until someone applies.
A recruitment agency, on the other hand, will already have all the know-how required to write an informative and equally enticing job ad for you, and will know exactly where to share this to ensure your ideal candidates come racing to your door!
Which leads us onto the next time-saving benefit…
2. Reviewing CVs and applications
If your job advert is a success, you’ll likely receive dozens – if not, hundreds – of applications. Of course, the more CVs you receive, the longer it will take to review them. This can then also become frustrating if the wrong kind of/unqualified candidates apply for the role.
Recruitment agencies near Gloucester such as i2i Recruitment, however, will know exactly what to look out for and where in the space of a few seconds, filter CVs and applications down for you in a fraction of the time, and forward on only those they know will be suitable for the role you have on offer.
3. Finding the right candidates for you
If, however, you are struggling to attract candidates in the first place (as is the case for numerous businesses in today’s candidate-led climate), your team will likely find themselves spending vast amounts of their precious time trawling through recruitment sites and platforms such as LinkedIn to find the right calibre of talent.
This is also something that recruitment agencies manage on a daily basis – so they’ll know exactly when and where to find just the right candidates for your vacancy.
Here at i2i Recruitment, we also have candidates registering with us on a daily basis who we can recommend, and have recently employed four new recruitment consultants to ensure our search processes are even faster and more efficient!
4. Meeting with candidates beforehand
There’s no greater waste of time in recruitment than a candidate attending an interview who is nothing like they seemed on paper.
At i2i Recruitment, this is why we take the time to meet and screen every candidate face-to-face (or at the very least via video call) to establish exactly who they are as a person, as well as a candidate, and ensure they’re the right kind of individual to work for your business before putting them forward for interview.
5. Scheduling interviews for you
In today’s increasingly busy landscape, scheduling interviews can take up a lot more time than many businesses initially realise.
With back and forth telephone calls and emails, the consulting of diaries and booking rooms for the interview to be held in, these seemingly 10-minute jobs can rack up to a few hours worth of work very quickly.
What’s more, with candidates now having so much choice for work opportunties and other potential interviews, there’s the added pressure of ensuring that your business stands out when you even first invite the candidate in for a meeting!
An experienced recruitment agency will do this on a daily basis, so they’ll know just how to pitch the role and your business to re-ignite candidate interest and help you stand out from the crowd, as well get your perfect interview time, date and place in the calendar with only a few minutes’ consultation with you!
6. Giving feedback to candidates, whether successful or unsuccessful
If you’ve had a lot of interviews, getting back to every candidate – especially if you wish to give them individual feedback – is yet another time-consuming aspect of hiring new staff.
Again, this is something that recruitment agencies will have a lot of experience in, and they’ll happily and easily take up this mantle for you. For the successful candidate, they’ll also be able to relay start dates to take this additional pressure off your team!
Recruitment agencies will also save you costs by:
1. Removing the need to pay for advertising
As well as writing your job adverts for you, your chosen recruitment agency will also save you money by sharing the job posting on their own website and social media accounts.
This therefore negates the need to pay pricey ad fees, memberships and subscriptions elsewhere!
2. Preventing overtime pay for employees who would otherwise be working on your recruitment
The majority of small to medium enterprises do not have a dedicated recruitment division, which means that recruitment tasks generally fall to members of staff whose duties would typically lie elsewhere.
Due to the time-consuming nature of recruitment, this often means that current employees end up working overtime – and that means overtime pay.
By teaming up with a recruitment agency to do all the work for you, however, this won’t be necessary!
3. Prevent the costs associated with hiring the wrong candidate
Because a recruitment agency will have really taken the time to get to know the candidates applying to work at your company, they’ll be able to put forward the best possible individuals for you, rather than those who won’t suit the role.
This then significantly reduces the risk of hiring the wrong candidate, and paying the (literal) price of poor performance, re-hiring, and additional training.
In summary…
Currently, candidate applications are at their lowest rate ever, and we are no longer living in a recruiter-led world. As a result, the competition for high-quality candidates is higher, and the time and costs associated with recruitment have vastly increased.
Here at i2i Recruitment, we have a unique, 20-point approach to recruitment, meaning that we cover all bases of your recruitment – from calling and sourcing passive candidates until we find the perfect one(s) to ensuring that they feel they are truly cared for, and much more.
As a result, our clients don’t waste a single minute of their hiring process, and are presented only with the very best candidates. As an added bonus, we also don’t charge until they get a successful hire.
It’s no wonder, then, that we’ve retained 98% of our clients compared to other recruitment agencies near Gloucester since our inception!
If you’d like to know more about how our expansive and dedicated team can help you save time and money and recruit the best possible employees for your business, simply get in touch with our team today…
