FACT… 98% of businesses rely on referrals to gain new business.
Vanilla Recruitment has proudly been members of the BNI Welland chapter for the last 3.5 years. BNI is a professional networking organisation whose primary purpose is to exchange qualified business referrals.
If you are interested in learning more about the organisation, and find out if you would be interested in generating a steady source of referral business, we are holding a breakfast meeting on September 14th 2010.
Pauline Goodman, BNI’s Assistant Director will be sharing BNI’s secrets to success through “word-of-mouth” marketing.
Seating is limited, so please contact Sophie Rice to book your place at srice@vanillarecruitment.co.uk
FACT… 3% of businesses have a strategy for referrals.
Question:
When you are looking at using a recruitment agency, how do you go about selecting the right one that gives you value for money?
Answer:
There are lots of factors to consider when looking for a recruitment agency. Short listing a few agencies that deal with candidates suitable for your industry is usually the initial starting point.
Once you have selected an agency to fill a vacancy within your organisation they should do as much of the hard work for you as possible.
They should inform you on all the details and explain the processes that they will go through to select your ideal candidates. Ideally, they should firstly check to see if the candidates are eligible to work in the UK, secondly interview and test the candidates and thirdly use their expertise and knowledge to select and shortlist three to four suitable candidates all of whom should make excellent employees.
Often companies confuse the term ‘value for money’ with monetary value rather than looking at it as an investment and what the return or result will be. In the recruitment industry value for money is about achieving several competent candidates for the position available, which allows you to grow your business.
The agency should not leave you with a pile of CVs to sift through to arrange first and second interviews, as this is what they are responsible for.
Overall, this will take the stress of looking for a candidate away from you and leave you free to get on with running your business.
Vanilla … the essence of recruitment!
Global technical recruitment company, NES Group, is advising candidates to refrain from giving details of their hobbies and interests in CVs. The company says it just isn’t appropriate to include personal interests when applying for professional roles. “Whilst sharing details of your personal hobbies may seem like it gives ‘colour’ to a CV, it can backfire by prompting employers to make a judgment about you”.
Source: Recruiter magazine 31st March 2010
