Recruitment Agencies are often engaged to support organisations in their search for suitable candidates.

The benefits of employing recruitment agencies to manage attraction of candidates include:

• Established industry presence; candidates will identify the recruitment company logo, enhancing initial buy in to the advertisements,
• Established networks and industry knowledge enabling a more efficient and thorough search of the candidate market,
• Established candidate databases, which constitute a search resource that otherwise would not be available to you,
• The specific expertise of recruitment consultants who engage in this stage of the recruitment process as their primary occupation,
• Substantial reductions in the amount of time you need to dedicate to this task,
  Skills and networks of “head-hunters” who know how and where to tap into the labour market and are unbiased in their approach.
• The benefits of using an external recruitment agency need to be analysed in relation to the costs of engaging the services and also in relation to the investment you are making in getting an employee.

Initially the cost is purely financial; however, you should also be alert to other issues that may impact on the viability of engaging external resources, such as:

• Sensitivity in the recruitment process,
• The need for the decision to appear independent,
• Confidentiality issues.