Is Your Business Recruiting? Why Using Flat Fee Recruitment Could Save You Money

Like all other aspects of the business world, recruitment is evolving. Today if your business is still using traditional recruiting services and paying them a percentage of salary for the positions they fill, then you are behind the times.

Believe it or not, most traditional recruiters will employ the internet to secure the best qualified candidates for your position. Those candidates are already out there using the internet themselves to seek employment. So it doesn't matter what position you are attempting to fill, there are eager candidates already available.

If all a traditional company is doing is searching the internet, collecting resumes, and screening qualified applicants, then why are you still paying them exorbitant rates for the ones you hire? There is no advertising required, no travel, no job fairs, and yet these costs are still built in to their fee schedules.

Doesn't it make more sense to use a flat rate business recruitment agency that will do what the traditional agencies are doing but at a lower, one time rate? Single fee recruitment services charge just one flat fee for each person you hire. They do not take a percentage of the salary over the first year or two. Flat fee recruiting is available and is appropriate for all levels of recruitment. There are flat fee engineering recruitment services, flat fee IT recruitment services, and of course, flat fee clerical recruitment services. Some recruitment services can do it all while some are specialized in particular areas such as engineering

Naturally, there are some questions you as an employer would want to ask of any recruitment agency, traditional or flat fee. A good agency must include candidate filtering, multiple job board postings, and manual response management as part of its services. This is true of traditional agencies and flat fee agencies. Just because you are paying a lower rate should not mean and does not mean that you are getting an inferior recruiting service. It only means that you are spending your recruiting money more wisely.

Sitting down with your recruitment services representative and explaining exactly the type person you are searching for is critical. By doing that, the flat fee service can design on-line applications that hone in on exactly what you want in an employee. The traditional generic or standard work application is replaced with a computerized form that will generate only those best qualified for the position. The subtle use of kill questions in the process assures this.

Using this process the flat fee recruitment agency will be able to give you a list of qualified candidates ranked in order of preference by the qualifications you set forth in the initial meetings. Everything will be done totally transparently. You can see the resumes of everyone who applies and know why they are ranked high or low in desirability based on your own criteria. This is all done via computer so the time interval from search to hire is dramatically shortened.

Bottom line is this, using flat fee recruitment agencies will save you money, will save you time, is cutting edge recruitment, and you will get better qualified candidates for your positions.

If you are finding for a recruitment consultant Singapore job, you will need to obtain the CEI basic course to be qualified to operate as a license recruitment consultant in Singapore.