How to Select the Perfect Recruitment Partner

Dedicated and skilled business support professionals are vital to your business’s growth. They allow your executive team to focus on looking for opportunities to expand your business, and improve your productivity as well as your profitability. There’s no question that finding the perfect candidate for these roles can substantially pay off.

As a Hiring Manager, the high demand for finding professionals with emotional intelligence, great personality traits and a wide range of skills, can often leave you with quite a headache. However, if any of the following sound familiar to you, it might be worth taking the time to talk to a new recruitment partner.

How Can a Recruitment Partner Help?

A great talent partner can provide solutions to all the above pain-points. Specialist recruitment agencies spend each day networking with experienced and qualified candidates to expand their talent pool. Having access to that talent pool will significantly boost the volume of applicants available to you. Candidates can often be more open about their career aspirations and reservations with a third-party Recruiter, which means that those shortlisted will stick around and be more likely to contribute on a long- term basis.

On paper, a great candidate will possess the required practical skills for getting their foot in the door. What makes that candidate a perfect fit however, is whether they have that chemistry with their prospective Manager and their working style. The best professionals on the market are often just as specific with their requirements for a new role, and usually have clear preferences on the working style of the person they support. They too want the right fit. Specialist Recruiters will evaluate a candidate’s combination of skills, experiences, personality fit, preferred working styles and career aspirations so only professionals with that certain je ne sais quoi are put forward.

If you already have a Recruitment Consultant handling your hiring needs and you’re still not receiving relevant candidates to your vacancies, that’s okay if they regularly contact you for feedback, and then act on this. If they don’t, it’s time to find a new recruitment partner.

Generalist vs Specialist Recruitment Agencies

A specialist recruitment agency will engage high-calibre candidates and actively maintain their rapport with top talent. These agencies will keep a close eye on the latest changes and challenges within specialised labour markets, and their client’s industries. This makes these talent partners an excellent port-of-call for businesses who are looking for experienced professionals, or to fill business critical roles.

Non-specialists, or generalist recruitment agencies cover a broad range of industries and job roles. These agencies can often be a great choice for candidates who are interested in working within a variety of jobs, rather than specialising within a particular field. Although this can be great for employers looking to quickly hire large volumes of staff, it’s not the best option if you need specialist professionals, hand-picked to fit your internal culture. As a specialist recruitment agency, we screen and interview business support professionals all day every day, so we know how to select the crème de la crème!

Essential Traits to Look Out For

Once you’ve concluded which type of recruitment partner best suits your needs, here’s an essential list of traits to look out for, so you can decide if an agency is good fit for you.

Summary

As a Hiring Manager, it’s all about the end result; securing that perfect person for the right job. Engaging and developing a strong long-term partnership with the right recruitment agency will make your job significantly easier.

As a Sydney-based recruitment agency that specialises in engaging and placing EAs, PAs and other office support professionals of all levels, our business model is about finding new ways to add value to what you do. We may be a little idealistic but we still believe in boring old words like ‘credibility’, ‘integrity’ and ‘accountability’. If you’d like to learn more on the services we offer, get in touch with our dedicated team today.

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