Why Partnering with a Recruitment Agency is a Great Investment

Is it worth working with a recruitment agency?

If you’re weighing up the pros and cons of working with a recruitment agency, don’t forget that every hiring moment is an opportunity to transform - and upgrade the capability of your business. Hiring decisions are critical decisions - and they’re worth investing in.

6 reasons you should consider partnering with a recruiter:

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1. Greater reach

Engaging and attracting top talent is a recruiter’s day job - we spend extensive time and effort cultivating long-term relationships, building and nurturing our network.


This network is the starting point for promoting your opportunity and includes both a talent database and their social media networks and reach.


Specialist recruitment businesses also have access to networks, membership organisations and specialist job boards to reach specific audiences.Reaching passive and hidden talent is an important reason to consider working with a recruiter.

2. Save yourself time

When done well, recruitment is a time-intensive process.


A robust, effective recruitment process involves a significant investment of time to identify, evaluate, screen and interview a large number of candidates.


When you’re making an important hiring decision, you want to select from the best possible pool of top quality talent. Do you want to hire the best person in a pool of 100-150 candidates - or the best for a small pool of 5?


Evaluating and interviewing candidates takes time. Most leaders don’t have time to evaluate a large pool of talent and compare large sets of candidate data.


Because this is a recruiter’s ‘day job’, they not only have more time to dedicate to your recruitment process, they’ll be more efficient at this process.

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3. Leverage our expertise

Recruitment is our ‘day job’, we’re the experts.


Trying to squash an effective recruitment process around your ‘day job’, won’t leave you much time to think about making the best hiring decisions, let alone get your actual job done.


Just because you can DIY, doesn’t mean you should. Do you do your own legal work - or engage an expert?


Additionally, do you know where to find the talent you’re looking for?


More often than not, the best talent is not actively seeking their next role, which means they’re not looking on job boards or LinkedIn. Unless your organisation has the expertise and resources internally to tap into passive talent pools (and approach them appropriately), you’ll need a recruitment partner to do this for you