Recruitment Career – I almost gave up!

Imagine the scenario, you are running an international recruitment agency, you have worked really really hard, sifting through 100′s and 100′s of CV’s finding the right candidates to send to your clients.

You get some new clients based on the skills and calibre of your candidates, interviews agreed The summer holiday is looking good with these fees. People are unpredictable and will always work in a way thats best for them, dont take it personally when they decide the job is not for them after all..

Interview day goes well, 5 candidates are made offers, brilliant, that’s at least 18k in the bank for the summer… First day times agreed.

Just before they are due to start the first candidate decides not to come, they just met a new partner and did not want to emigrate after all. The holiday can wait until next year. Candidate 2 decides they will take the job, but through a different agency, strange how they never mentioned this before. The 3rd one was not successful in their application for residency, and the others were not truthful..The cupboard will be bare, of the 2 starters, 1 is fired for inappropriate conduct.

2 months later your cheque arrives for your surviving candidate, no sooner than you open the envelope you receive a phone call from the client informing you the candidate has left, he was home sick, and the terms state 90 day guarantee with 100% refund. No fee for me.

Dont quit now, you have already learned the hardest lessons and now you have good recruitment software it will be easier.

With my new found knowledge and efficiency I realise that this happens, especially in permanent recruitment however it can be prevented with the right interventions at the appropriate times. If you are still here and want to continue get some appropriate recruitment solutions sorted.

A good software for recruitment system and experience is vital to avoid the common pitfalls and would have enabled me to work smarter?

Ask about their background Have they ever live abroad before. Ask how being
apart from family would affect them.

Work Permit – They couldn’t get one

Inappropriate behaviour – local awareness lessons may have helped here. smoking at your desk space is a no no.

Other agency – how many agents did they call?

Its not just a bums on seats game, you got to build a rapport and relationship, putting more into it ensures you behave as a professional and benefit from repeat business and a good calibre of candidate.

Laura Smith

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