How do you know you’re paying the right recruitment fees?
It’s a tough one.
Most of the time, you use a third-party supplier because you’ve exhausted your network. And you don’t have a specialist HR/Recruiter for this vacancy.
Plus you just don’t have the time yourself.
8 simple steps before going externally:
👉 Post an advertisement on your LinkedIn
👉 Ask your team to Like/Comment/Share that post (all 3, ideally)
👉 Speak to friends and ex-colleagues
👉 Do a LinkedIn keyword search and target 10 people
👉 Drop their LinkedIn URL in a spreadsheet if you’ve got basic LinkedIn
👉 Connect and send them a message
👉 Follow up until you get an answer either way
👉 Repeat. (50-100 cold, targeted candidates should fill 1 vacancy).
If your team hasn’t done the above steps, and you’re a Decision-Maker in the same market — this could be all you need.
You can do the first 7 steps in a couple of hours with a bit of practice.
Then it gets harder and harder to identify suitable candidates…
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OK, so you’ve decided to use a supplier… What are the two most important factors for you?
➡ Quality
➡ Speed
➡ Price
Most Decision Makers say Quality and Speed.
But then choose their supplier based on Price. 🙄
If you’re too busy to do the above steps, then you should seriously reconsider your decision if it’s based on Price. Why?
Because if you really just want this done for cheap:
Get a grad to repeat this process 8 hours/day for a month.
You might find someone.
But I can’t guarantee you will.
If you’re using a big recruitment agency: this is what they are doing.
You may think you’ve got a great deal because it’s a big name, and they’re comparatively cheap.
But the recruiter is not committed to your vacancy.
The average recruiter here places 1 in 8 roles. They need to place 1 job per month to hit their target…
But that doesn’t have to be your job.
If you want a guarantee this job will be filled: you need commitment.
Look at partners that guarantee a placement within a certain time, or replace employees who leave within a certain amount of time.
They will not only do some basic LinkedIn recruitment as mentioned above, but they will have an extensive network in this area, knowledge of your sector, and will do all they can to get the job done.
We guarantee to fill your tricky placement in 8 weeks.
And we provide a 6-month replacement guarantee.
In fact, most of our placements are significantly quicker than 8 weeks.
But I mean the really tricky ones…
Where you’ve tried working with multiple agencies for the same vacancy over the last 6 months, and are now pretty desperate…
But the difference is:
We wouldn’t say yes to your business if we couldn’t perform.
___
Hey, if you can get someone without going externally — do it.
And you should definitely shop around and negotiate.
But would you rather have a 15% agreement and no candidates, or a 30% agreement with 3 final-stage candidates to choose from?
Thanks for reading.
How do you know you’re paying the right recruitment fees?
It’s a tough one.
Most of the time, you use a third-party supplier because you’ve exhausted your network. And you don’t have a specialist HR/Recruiter for this vacancy.
Plus you just don’t have the time yourself.
8 simple steps before going externally:
👉 Post an advertisement on your LinkedIn
👉 Ask your team to Like/Comment/Share that post (all 3, ideally)
👉 Speak to friends and ex-colleagues
👉 Do a LinkedIn keyword search and target 10 people
👉 Drop their LinkedIn URL in a spreadsheet if you’ve got basic LinkedIn
👉 Connect and send them a message
👉 Follow up until you get an answer either way
👉 Repeat. (50-100 cold, targeted candidates should fill 1 vacancy).
If your team hasn’t done the above steps, and you’re a Decision-Maker in the same market — this could be all you need.
You can do the first 7 steps in a couple of hours with a bit of practice.
Then it gets harder and harder to identify suitable candidates…
___
OK, so you’ve decided to use a supplier… What are the two most important factors for you?
➡ Quality
➡ Speed
➡ Price
Most Decision Makers say Quality and Speed.
But then choose their supplier based on Price. 🙄
If you’re too busy to do the above steps, then you should seriously reconsider your decision if it’s based on Price. Why?
Because if you really just want this done for cheap:
Get a grad to repeat this process 8 hours/day for a month.
You might find someone.
But I can’t guarantee you will.
If you’re using a big recruitment agency: this is what they are doing.
You may think you’ve got a great deal because it’s a big name, and they’re comparatively cheap.
But the recruiter is not committed to your vacancy.
The average recruiter here places 1 in 8 roles. They need to place 1 job per month to hit their target…
But that doesn’t have to be your job.
If you want a guarantee this job will be filled: you need commitment.
Look at partners that guarantee a placement within a certain time, or replace employees who leave within a certain amount of time.
They will not only do some basic LinkedIn recruitment as mentioned above, but they will have an extensive network in this area, knowledge of your sector, and will do all they can to get the job done.
We guarantee to fill your tricky placement in 8 weeks.
And we provide a 6-month replacement guarantee.
In fact, most of our placements are significantly quicker than 8 weeks.
But I mean the really tricky ones…
Where you’ve tried working with multiple agencies for the same vacancy over the last 6 months, and are now pretty desperate…
But the difference is:
We wouldn’t say yes to your business if we couldn’t perform.
___
Hey, if you can get someone without going externally — do it.
And you should definitely shop around and negotiate.
But would you rather have a 15% agreement and no candidates, or a 30% agreement with 3 final-stage candidates to choose from?
Thanks for reading.