How a Engineering Recruitment Agency will work with you to find that prefect candidate
All recruitment agencies will tell you that they will find “that perfect candidate” for you, however only a few will go through a full search campaign. Job Boards and CV databases have made accessing candidates easier and many recruitment consultants are happy to rely on these two methods, meaning that by using these “lazy” recruitment consultants you as the employee could be missing out on the real superstars at are out there, what we at SER Limited refer to as passive candidates, those who are interested in hearing about new career opportunities but not at that stage to activity be applying for roles. It’s the skill for a good recruiter to build strong relationships with these “passive candidates” and present to them suitable opportunities as and when they appear.
At SER Limited our recruitment search process is one that covers every base. Of course, we use the Job Boards and CV databases, we would be mad not to, but that’s just a starting point as we search for that outstanding unicorn of a candidate.
Our recruitment search process includes:
Spending a significate amount of time with you understanding the job and the type of person that you are looking to employ.
Working with you to produce and outstanding Job Advert that sells the opportunity, then posting this advert across the UK job boards.
Searching CV databases for candidates that on paper appear suitable. This can be anything from 10 to 150 potential targets depending on the role, salary and location. Then it’s a case of calling, texting and email each and everyone to establish any interest. This process alone can take days of calling and chasing.
We then speak to our contacts within the industry, do remember that we are specialist engineering recruiters and each consultant only operates within their chosen sector. Therefore, they build up outstanding connections over time. There approach these people looking for referrals and recommendations.
Its then a case of using social media to highlight potential candidates who are doing a similar role within a competitor, and making contact with them, in order to proactively “sell and promote” your opportunity. Of course, this is done without disclosing company names.
If we are still looking thin on the ground for candidates, we will then target companies that we know will have similar people within the company and look to headhunt and gain further referrals when possible.
Once this process has been completed, any potentially suitable candidates will be reference checked and present to you for feedback.
Permanent recruitment can be a long-winded process, this is why we look to work with companies on an exclusive basis.
SER Limited are specialist recruiters to the engineering sectors – call us on 01254 781300 if you feel we can add value to your recruitment process.
