Choosing The Right Scarborough Recruitment Agency

By Eugenia Dickerson


If you have a job vacancy it can be difficult to find suitable candidates. Knowing who is suitable is not always easy. While a CV or an interview can help to an extent this does not necessarily accurately reflect the candidate. Therefore you may want to use the services of a Scarborough recruitment agency to find the best candidate to suit you.

Before you contact an agency you need to consider who it is you are looking to fill your vacancy. There will usually be a certain set of skills and qualifications that the potential recruit will require. You need to be sure that the agency clearly understands what you want and where to find it.

The advantage of using an agency is that this is an additional filtering out process. Instead of going through hundreds of applications yourself someone else can do this for you. In theory what should remain are the few candidates that are best suited to the job that you want them to do. Ideally the agency will not simply keep details and match up those details but also look at the person themselves and judge whether they are appropriate in terms of both skills and personality as well as qualifications.

As well as improving the quality of candidates a recruiter can also ensure the right people are there for your vacancy. You have to be sure that they are aware of what you want and how they respond to it. For example the skills needed to find a single temp worker is different to finding a group of candidates to work the phones in a call centre. With the single worker it is about their personality while when choosing a group you need to think whether collectively they will reach any targets their employer could set them.

Another aspect is their communication skills. If you find it difficult to arrange meetings with them or they do not listen to your feedback then this means they are not taking your needs seriously. If you feel this is the case then it is vital to find a recruiter who understands what you want and adapts to it.

For example with a smaller office there are only like to be two or three jobs. However as the company goes you may want security, a sales team, an IT technician and so forth. Therefore you ought to consider whether you want to focus on specialists or a broader range of candidates.

The recruiter should also have a clear mission statement. They ought to have values of honesty and transparency that should be upheld by their candidates. Equally they ought to be able to demonstrate this in terms of how they handle their business as oppose to this being a statement on their website.

Finally the simplest thing to do when approaching a Scarborough recruitment agency is to ask the people who use them! For example if you are waiting to have a meeting talk to the people who are going there to talk to the recruiters and find out if they are satisfied with the service they have received from the agency and whether they would recommend the recruiter to their friends or anyone else looking for work. It is also worth looking online to see what is available in your local area and narrowing down the options to find the best one to suit your needs.




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