Recruitment in 2009 certainly took a pasting. With the economy in recession and 2 million plus unemployed hope looked like it had packed its bags and left the UK and expectations were low. However, I can understand now why the Chinese always refer to crisis in the same breath as opportunity, pain makes you re-focus and refine. I certainly went back to basics to discover what my Clients really need and want.
Social Media and Job centre initiatives are thriving so what Clients don't want from recruiters is unfiltered C.V's landing in their inbox as they can get raw candidate information easily themselves. They need and want excellent recruiters who find the hidden or passive candidates who last year were far to cautious to make a move. In simple terms they still need talent and rising talent to enable their organisations to move from mediocre to brilliant. That is the core of Recruitment Professionals' philosophy to seek and find the candidate with the skills, ability and most importantly attitude to make your organisation successful whilst being realistic on fees.
More methods of finding candidates has only made the search and selection process longer not easier and we work hard to stay on top of the all the latest social media marketing, online recruitment activity and online networking to ensure we attract the best candidates. To help uncover this talent I have a new Senior Consultant working with me, Rikki Gall, who has an extremely successful executive and headhunting background. His role is to add even more value to our services by using his skills to uncover talented candidates. We work tirelessly to fill vacancies, we screen candidates thoroughly what we do need and often don't receive from clients is regular feedback as the recruitment process is dynamic and often job briefs get refined over time.
If you are looking for ethical recruiters who pride themselves on the service they deliver not the largest fee they can charge then we are the recruiters for you. Finally, seasoned recruiters like us can uncover real potential that cannot be deduced from a C.V. alone. Grit and determination cannot be confined to a page of A.4 and last week I placed a lovely lady in a contract position who although well qualified had been overlooked because of a career break these are her comments to the client and me;
"I wish there were more people like you and her who are willing to give new opportunities to aspiring people like me to pursue their dreams."
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