How to find staff for your job vacancies: Recruitment Leaders

Recruitment Leaders: How to find staff for your job vacancies

How do you search for suitable candidates to fill your permanent or short term job vacancies?

There are two obvious choices:
Try to find candidates yourself or let an employment agency do the hard work for you. If you decide to take on the whole recruitment process yourself, you will find that it can take up a large portion of your time and a lot of money.
I am not suggesting that using a recruitment agency will be cheaper than doing it yourself, but when you take into account the time and the money involved, the value of using a recruitment agency becomes clear.

There are various stages to finding staff for your job vacancies; each one takes time and effort, time that could be spent better doing other things.
Here are some of the steps you will need to take just to get suitable candidates to the interview stage:

The first step involves thinking where and how to advertise your vacancy. There are various options for this from local press to specialist internet sites. If, for example, your vacancy is in Maidenhead, you may want your advert to reach candidates in Slough, Marlow, High Wycombe and possibly Reading.
The price of advertising in Bucks and Berks is often underestimated and can cost thousands of pounds.

Once you have decided where to advertise, you will have to decide on the content of the advert. You will be restricted by the size of the advertising space, which varies between publications.
You want your advert to look professional and eye catching and you will need to include all the relevant information.
Designing an effective advert is a fine art and the process can take a long time, even if you use a quality design tool.

Then you sit back and wait for the candidates to contact you.
For most vacancies, you will receive a good response, especially in the Thames Valley area. I can guarantee, however, that around 50% of the job seekers that contact you will have none of the experience or qualifications you advertised for.
Unfortunately, you still have to read the CV's or speak to the candidates to find this out. This is just one of those things, but it adds a considerable amount of time to forming a shortlist of candidates.
You will then need to contact each of those you wish to interview and arrange a date and time to see them.

Once the interviews have taken place, you will want to inform the lucky candidate though you will also have to inform the unlucky ones and ideally those that never made the interview stages.

In total, this whole process will take around 12 hours. That is 12 hours of your time, not to mention all the money you may have spent advertising.

Next time you have a job vacancy in Bucks or Berks, let Recruitment Leaders do all the hard work.

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