Recruiting the right people is the most important thing you’ll do today!
Whatever you hear, read or see about successful businesses and wherever you read it - train, office, toilet.. (only joking) it’s amazing just how often top business leaders refer to the importance of getting recruitment right.
Do you ever watch TV, listen to the radio or read the papers and think
“How come they’re so successful? They’re no smarter than me”
One factor that plays a major part in their success is the fact that these people really do understand the importance of having the right people in the right place.
Most businesses recruit terribly (if you don’t we wholeheartedly apologise and applaud you!) and in speaking to a wide cross section of managers most will remember the huge pressure that they were under to recruit quickly and cheaply (not always great bedfellows) and they recall just how time-consuming recruitment was.
The more honest will readily admit that sometimes they decided to recruit the best person that they saw rather than the most suitable person for the position – arghhh – that’s potentially disastrous for both you and your recruit!
Recruitment is largely an untrained skill. Few organisations train or support their staff in this highly skilled discipline. As a result people recruit the way they were recruited themselves or the way that they’re seen other people recruit. The outcome is they recruit reasonably at best or horribly badly at worst.
Cost is another major gripe with recruitment – recruitment IS expensive in terms of time and money, wherever your recruits come from and how you choose to do it.
However just stop and think for a moment – recruitment isn’t a cost it’s an investment. Research varies on the exact cost of getting recruitment wrong, but according to some it equates to 15 times sometimes annual salary – that’s a lot of money – RECRUITMENT IS A EXPENSIVE THING TO GET WRONG!
This is exactly why it is vital to get recruitment right first time – every time.
You can take different approaches to improving your recruitment process – you can Train and Develop the skills internally or you can partner with a Recruitment Process Management Outsourcer to help find and deliver the right person for each role.
Whichever route you take Cream HR can help you – we have delivered outstanding success using both of the above approaches and sometimes a combination of the two.
Training and developing your existing staff will build greater resilience and longevity in your business and help deliver recruitment excellence over years to come – you (or at least your managers) will develop a range of techniques and methods that work specifically for their needs and your business.
Cream HR offers a range of training and development programmes to help business in this area, which includes the very latest in social networking techniques (we partner with some real experts in this area who recruit day in day out using the very latest methods).
We will help you to developing your own effective frameworks and screening methods and ensure that you assess your long term success by helping to introduce measures that will enable you to look at the costs and/or return on your investment from a different and more balanced perspective.
If your needs are more urgent and you feel that you can’t justify the time to invest in training, then we offer expert Recruitment Process Management services that have delivered exceptional results.
Our starting point is to work very closely with you and ask some sometimes bizarre questions to help us understand what you really are looking for. In conjunction with you and your line managers we will create and implement an approach that fits with your business needs.
Recruitment Outsourcers are pretty much “ten a penny” at the moment and many are recruiters offering a different way of using their service. The real skill in successfully delivering Recruitment projects is not speed of hire or the cost of hire – it is the ability to measure the success of your recruits over a reasonable period of time against their objectives.
Cost per hire and speed of hire statistics are easy to throw about – people love playing with statistics – it’s easy!
Successful Recruitment Process Management is all about delivering against the most difficult criteria and seeing the return on investment that your new recruit gives to your business – that’s a job well done.
Cream HR loves nothing more than successfully delivering ahead of time and on budget against the most challenging of criteria.
If you are considering an Outsourcing Project, before you start it is most important to consider why you want to outsource and what you seek to achieve.
After this you need to select the right Outsourcing partner – they need to be able to flexibly fit around your needs not the other way around.
If you’re looking to partner with a high value, high touch organisation that has successfully delivered for some of the most demanding recruiters in the world – then we should talk.
Whatever recruiting projects we are working on we also ensure that you recruit legally. We live in a strange world and recruitment has become a playground for bogus claimants using the latest discrimination legislation to try to launch a range of claims.
Some of the feedback that we have received is amazing and some of our recruits have quickly been recognised at some of the best hires ever made in some organisations – and before we got involved the companies concerned didn’t think that they would EVER fill the role!!
Some of the business we’ve worked with successfully include:
