Recruitment Advertising Made Easy

If you've had responsibility for recruitment for any length of time, you already know that it's hit and miss at the best of times.

Did you know that recruitment agencies and recruiting managers (including HR departments) only get recruitment right approximately 50% of the time - even when such modern day tools like psychometric testing are used?

It's true. At least half of all recruitment fails.

Recruitment advertising goes a long way in determining whether the recruitment exercise will be successful or not.

The mistakes are often made at the beginning and when you consider that for a moment, it's easy to see why.

Most job ads are placed by HR departments, yet the HR people rarely have a thorough understanding of what the job is about. It's not their fault, it's just that you can't expect people to have a thorough understanding of all positions available.

This is particularly the case when attempting to recruit into technical and IT positions as well as some senior management roles.

In order to make a recruitment campaign successful, it is vitally important that the role is defined correctly in the first place.

Trying to recruit a direct replacement for somebody leaving is the least problematic, since somebody will have been the job for a length of time, so the hiring manager has a good idea of the person and skills they are looking for.

However, many jobs are created from scratch by a direct business need, or because a company has purchased new IT or productivity systems and needs experienced people who can help with implementation and day to day running.

This is where the problems start, since most companies won't know the exact skills they require.

That's when it's time to call in a professional recruiter with strong business knowledge and the capability to quickly understand what the business requires.

In such a situation, it's hard to know who to call. Often, HR or personnel staff won't understand the requirement and will concentrate purely on technical skills.

A recruiter will often do the same. He or she will take a job specification and recruit against key words, looking at CVs for broad matches.

It's still your job to find the right person.

Here's what we do that's completely different to the way most recruiters work.

• visit you and help you create the job specification from scratch 
• help you define the personal skills required 
• help you understand exactly how the new recruit will be fitting in with your organisation 
• ask questions that you won't have considered 
• write your recruitment advertisement 
• help select the most appropriate media

In short, we'll solve your recruitment advertising problems and it doesn't matter what level of staff you are looking to appoint - from the most junior to the most senior executives, technical or non-technical.

Recruitment is simple when you get it right from the start.

You do want to get it right don't you?

In the current economic climate, it's harder than ever to escape some of the pitfalls, since recruitment agencies will be literally mailing speculative CVs across the market place without any candidate pre-screening whatsoever.

Escape the noise.

Call David Carter on 01564 824554 or mobile 07800 790427

Free, friendly advice and a results oriented recruitment and recruitment advertising service that's second to none.