Specialist contract recruitment can be tricky. When you have a particular job in mind with its own unique skill set, chances are you’ll have to look further and wider than usual in identifying a suitable talent pool. For many recruiting functions, high-street recruitment agencies can be useful in helping provided flexible labour at relatively short notice. But for more specialised positions, it’s often best that you steer clear of regular recruitment agencies if you want to find the right talent for your role.
Recruitment agencies specialise in providing general labour. If you’re running a factory, or a haulage company, or if you’re looking to fill an admin role, this can be an easy way of finding the people you need quickly, without the hassle and risk of a regular recruitment process. But if you are looking for someone with niche skills and experience, you are unlikely to find them on a recruitment agency’s books.
Recruitment agencies work on volume, filling numerous short-term and long-term vacancies on a seemingly endless cycle. They need to have a bank of employees and a bank of suitable jobs they can match them with. When you start to drill down into the types of employees, and indeed the types of jobs, that recruitment agencies match, you will usually find a disconnect between what they have to offer, and what your business needs in terms of personnel.
Similarly, the lack of niche expertise agency-side can prove a problem, even where an agency ostensibly has the right types of talent on their books. If the agency staff themselves don’t understand your industry and the nuances of the role you are looking to fill, your chances to securing the right person are even lower.
With specialist contract recruitment, it helps to have a specialist recruitment partner on board, helping you source the right person for the role. Through combining industry knowledge and expertise, and a higher-level direct approach to securing the right talent, companies like Wenham Carter Consulting can take the agony out of finding qualified candidates and providing the right personnel for your specialist contract.
Hiring new staff is tough at the best of times. Studies shows that the average interview process provides only a 2% edge on making the right call versus not having the interview at all, and without HR expertise on hand to help in the process, it can be easy to come unstuck.
Steer clear of high-street recruitment agencies when it comes to filling a specialised job – for specialised results, you need a specialised hiring partner, like Wenham Carter Consulting, to help source the most qualified and suitable candidates for your position.
