Recruitment Cycle Of Failure
Internal recruitment campaigns to outsourced to traditional recruitment agents but still no results? We call this the recruitment cycle of failure. We sat down with recruitment expert Stephanie Joseph to dig a little bit deeper into how businesses can get caught out.
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On the one hand, traditional recruitment agents.
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On the other hand, you’ve got
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the internal recruitment or doing it yourself.
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I often hear the team talk to recruitment clients
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about being stuck in the cycle of failure.
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What do they mean by that?
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So what we often see happen that the client tries
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to internally recruit.
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It fails because for all the reasons I’ve just discussed, they are time poor,
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the dont get back to people quick enough the ad isn’t thought about properly.
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There’s some errors that they’re making
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that they probably didn’t realize there’re making.
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And what we find then happens.
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They try a traditional recruiter
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who charges them 10 to 20% of the first year salary as a placement fee.
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That person is guaranteed for placement for the first three months.
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They decide they’re not suitable within the three months.
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So they get another replacement from the recruiter,
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same recruiter who selects these people.
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And the same thing happens again.
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And they’re on this constant stream of replacement replacement replacements
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within the first three months of employment.
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Eventually, they cut their losses and forego the 10 to 20%
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placement fee that is paid to the recruiter.
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They go back to the internal recruitment process
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and the cycle essentially starts over again.
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If this is you, maybe you should consider using a recruiter
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who’s taking a different approach.
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And this is why the On Demand HR model is different.
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We wanted to offer another alternative in the market
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and typically why a client will come to us for recruitment.
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The definition of insanity is trying
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the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
