Why Use A Recruiter?

    Here are 7 reasons why using a high quality, third party, recruitment consultant is still likely to be the most cost-effective option for a client seeking to hire the best employees, regardless of the economic climate.

    Long gone are the days where high-calibre candidates are flooding online ads with applications. Actually it is the opposite! Statistics show that employees will hold-fast to their roles due to the need for security. A high quality recruiter uses many tools and techniques to access and woo top candidates. Most clients just rely on online ads to generate candidates for jobs, which will not usually uncover the best future employees for your Agency. We are constantly in the market searching!

    Almost all clients attempting their own direct recruitment have higher daily priorities than hiring. Recruitment consultants have no higher priorities than responding quickly to a client request for quality permanent and/or temporary staff. As a high quality recruiter, the team at sharonbennie are able to provide suitable candidates to a client, faster than you can do it yourselves, and usually interviewed, qualified and reference checked.

    Our database and filing system, with deep history, allows us to compare the resume submitted by a candidate to one they may have submitted in the past. Considering that between 20% and 40% of resumes have significant inaccuracies (depending upon which survey you believe), our chances of detecting a fabrication or omission in a candidate's resume is generally going to be better. We are also constantly updating our database from clients information on employees who have departed on less than favourable terms and can ensure these candidates don’t wind up in your chairs.

    We offer a combination of testing to assesses candidate's skills, competencies and motivations.

    When the client is recruiting directly, they have no independent advocate going in to bat for them with the candidate (remembering that quality candidates will almost always have other choices). A high quality recruitment consultant knows how to most effectively present job opportunities to their candidates.

    Because our passion and focus is real estate, and we have worked in the industry ourselves, the team at sharonbennie knows our market niche intimately. This allows us to provide expert advice to our clients about candidate availability, sourcing methods, salaries & benefits benchmarking, hiring timeframes and key ‘push & pull' factors for quality candidates.

    We’ve calculated that by using a recruiter, you could save up to 24 work hours, or 3 full days!

    Time without sharonbennie Recruiting Tasks Time with sharonbennie
    60 minutes Identify requirement and compiling job description 30 mins to brief us
    30 minutes Prepare and place adv's sharonbennie does this for you
    30 minutes Select and contact media
    15 minutes Proof ad, amend and return
    approx. 50 calls @ 3 mins Handle initial telephone enquiries
    approx. 20 CVs @ 10 mins Review CVs, read and sort
    10 x 5 minutes Select the 10 most suitable applicants to telescreen
    10 x 10 minutes Telescreen to identify a final 5
    15 x 5 minutes Write to unsuccessful applicants
    5 x 10 minutes Call and co-ordinate times to meet with successful applicants for interview
    5 x 5 minutes Call to confirm attendance
    5 x 60 minutes Plan and conduct initial interviews
    5 x 45 minutes Conduct Testing
    5 x 30 minutes Undertake reference checks
    3 x 45 minutes 2nd interviews with a short list of 3 candidates 3 x 45 minutes
    3 x 10 minutes Make decision of appointment 30 minutes
    30 minutes Verbal offer to successful candidate and confirm in writing  
    30 minutes Write to unsuccessful candidates  
    28 hours 5 minutes   3 hours 25 minutes