Brands that are increasingly handling their own recruitment are encountering several pain points in today's complex job market. What might have worked, is getting harder and set to become even more challenging.
These challenges can be overcome by engaging a specialist/niche recruiter. And that’s us!
Here’s how we take away pain and work hard to protect our client’s time, costs and brand!
Access to Top Talent
Pain Point: Companies often struggle to reach the most qualified candidates, especially for specialist roles. Competition for top talent is fierce, and in-house teams may lack the networks that recruitment agencies have built over years.
Solution: We have an extensive network (over 60,000 1st line contacts across social media and a huge database of warm contacts) built over 20 years in the business of Marketing and Creative recruitment. We also have the ability to source passive candidates who aren't actively looking but may be open to new opportunities.
Difficulty in Employer Branding
Pain Point: Building and maintaining a strong employer brand is critical in today’s landscape, but many businesses lack the expertise to effectively communicate their value proposition to potential employees.
Solution: We offer FREE consulting on employer branding, helping you to craft and communicate a compelling narrative, to attract top-tier talent.
Limited Expertise in Specialist Roles
Pain Point: In-house teams might lack the deep industry-specific knowledge required to assess candidates for specialist or technical roles, design a realistic role profile and assign a realistic salary.
Solution: We have 11 areas of expertise within the Marketing and Creative spectrum, and each of our consultants are experts on one or more of those areas. They know what strategies work for every unique role and how to reach, engage and manage those candidates effectively.
Bias and Diversity Challenges
Pain Point: Ensuring a diverse and inclusive hiring process can be challenging, and unconscious bias may influence in-house recruitment decisions.
Solution: We are set up to ensure our recruitment processes are unbiased and we can help businesses achieve their diversity and inclusion goals by accessing a broader talent pool.
Keeping Up with Technology
Pain Point: The recruitment landscape is rapidly evolving with new technologies, such as AI-driven applicant tracking systems (ATS), and in-house teams may struggle to keep up or go down this road without appreciating the negative consequences.
Solution: We offer human centred recruitment, with the infrastructure to manage and respond to all applications and interested candidates. Candidates are disengaging from automated technologies and looking for channels they can trust. If you think AI driven systems are the answer to managing your own recruitment, be careful. There is another way - simply outsource your recruitment to humans who are set up to manage projects end to end and give candidates the experience they want and deserve.
High Turnover Rates
Pain Point: Brands may face high turnover if they struggle to find candidates who are a good cultural fit or have long-term potential.
Solution: With a brief that includes a good understanding of culture fit and by meeting hiring managers, we ensure that our clients only meet candidates who fit in terms of skills, experience, motivations, and culture. We also adopt a tried and tested ‘impartial’ qualification interview which goes way further to extract truths about what candidates are looking for and their best fit. This saves a huge amount of time and focusses on retention. We’re so confident in our matching ability that we offer rebates of up to 6 months.
Scaling Recruitment Efforts
Pain Point: As companies grow, they may face challenges in scaling their recruitment processes to meet increased hiring demands, particularly during rapid expansion phases.
Solution: We can handle your spikes in hiring needs. You just need to proactively get to know us so we can help you when you reach capacity.
Candidate Experience Management
Pain Point: Ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process is crucial, but many brands struggle with maintaining communication and providing timely feedback.
Solution: We are experts in managing candidate experiences, from initial contact to final offer, ensuring that candidates feel valued and respected throughout the process. Individuals' circumstances are very changeable throughout the recruitment process, and we stay close and share important information with our clients to ensure the perfect candidate isn’t lost, and that processes flex accordingly
Cost Management
Pain Point: Recruitment can be expensive, and brands may be focused on cutting costs by handling hiring internally. However, this can be surprisingly expensive and lead to further high costs if the process results in poor hires. We are working on a cost calculator which will help businesses forecast the real cost of internal recruitment and a bad hire. Send us a quick email if you’d like us to share it with you, when it’s ready.
Solution: Our services can be more cost-effective in the long run by reducing time-to-hire, improving hire quality, and lowering turnover rates.
Legal and Compliance Issues
Pain Point: Navigating the legal complexities of recruitment, including labour laws, data protection, and equal employment regulations, can be daunting for in-house teams. Notwithstanding the impending changes to workers' rights.
Solution: We partner with recruitment federations and HR experts to get ahead of legal and compliance issues and can find you answers to any questions you have, quickly. Our interim consulting team are also trained and well versed in freelance and contractor compliance laws and guidelines. If you have a question, please ask!
Time-Consuming Process
Pain Point: Managing the entire recruitment process in-house—from writing job descriptions to screening CVs, conducting interviews, and onboarding requires significant time and resources.
Solution: We can streamline the process, leveraging our expertise to save you time and focus on your core business activities.
Our services have been designed to protect our clients time, costs and brand. We are very much about getting recruitment right and building long-term partnerships. If you’d like to meet us, to see how we can help your business please get in touch. We like to talk!
