Recruitment consultants can drastically improve the quality of their relationships with their contacts in HR if they act as consultants as well recruitment specialists (external website), according to US-based people development and HR specialist Alicia Arenas.
Arenas argues that many HR professionals are expected to act as effective recruiters, yet most will only have received comparatively limited training in how to get recruitment right. Consequently, in Arenas' view, if recruiters take the time to share pointers on how to get recruitment right, HR is more likely to put business their way when vacancies come up.
The potential benefits for HR and for recruiters are significant. Arenas says:
[HR is all too often] seen as a 'drain on the budget' or 'a necessary evil'. When something you [recruitment consultants] do helps us deliver results to our internal client, that is golden.
HR's responsibilities when it comes to recruitment (subscription required) are covered in detail by 2009 benchmarking research from IRS. Responsibility for recruitment and selection most commonly falls to HR managers, at more than two-fifths (44.1%) of UK employers surveyed. A further one in five (20.7%) respondents say that senior HR advisors are tasked with recruitment responsibilities, followed by junior HR advisors (at 15.3% of organisations surveyed).
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Comments (4)
Thanks for the post and for sharing the very useful information related to recruitment consultants, great post.
Posted by Tag44 | December 1, 2009 9:02 AM
Posted on December 1, 2009 09:02
I think providing addition information on an employee for free is a good way to boost trust because it in now quite easy to find extra info by searching on the big social sites like myspace etc.
Posted by Paul @ jobs Nottingham | December 11, 2009 5:12 AM
Posted on December 11, 2009 05:12
Thanks for sharing such type of nice post because in major cases people don't know what exactly HR wants at the time of recruitment & this post is very helpful for answering that question please keep sharing these type of posts.
Posted by Recruitment Training | December 15, 2009 7:35 AM
Posted on December 15, 2009 07:35
Many thanks for your kind comment. And I would be very interested to hear your own experiences (along with those of any other readers of this post) of HR's needs during recruitment activities, and how these are met (or otherwise) by recruitment consultants.
Kind regards
Michael
Posted by Michael Carty
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December 15, 2009 8:00 AM
Posted on December 15, 2009 08:00