The success of your business ultimately falls upon the employees who work for you. But how do you get the recruitment process right?
The two recruitment options available to you when looking for new people to fill vacant positions are to keep it in-house or outsource the task of finding the perfect candidate to an external recruitment consultancy. While there are benefits to keeping recruitment in-house, including consistency throughout the process, there are also many challenges to choosing this form of recruitment.
As a reputable recruitment agency in Oxford & Abingdon, we would always suggest outsourcing the job to experts such as ourselves as we have a dedicated team who specialise in sourcing the perfect candidates for our clients. However, there are benefits to keeping the recruitment process in-house but it doesn’t come without its challenges.
Here are some important factors that you should consider before making the decision;
- Cost – The main reason for not using a recruitment agency usually boils down to cost. However is it really cheaper to employ someone whose full-time job role is then to employ others? You won’t always be recruiting but you will still have the overhead of paying that member of staff. By opting for an external recruitment agency you will only be paying them when you actually require their services.
- Resources – Specialist agencies have a catalogue of individuals on file looking for work as well as access to a number of online portals that they can utilise meaning they are more likely to find quality candidates in a shorter space of time. Investing in these resources would be costly to a business and one that they are unlikely to opt for meaning that the organisation in question will be relying heavily on potential candidates falling upon their website, seeing the job vacancy and sending in their CV’s. Another short-cut that many companies also adopt is it use their current staff to manage the recruitment process, rather than employ a full-time recruiter. This option is likely to affect their productivity as their time is taken away from the job that they are actually employed to do.
- Expertise – Identifying the best talent is a skill in itself, as is reading a CV and then conducting an interview. You could end up calling someone in for an interview who on paper looks great but in reality is all hot air. A recruitment agency will ensure that you only get to see the cream of the crop so time won’t be wasted on interviews with candidates that really aren’t right for the role.
