Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) –- Catalpa Capital Founder, Chairman & CIO Joseph McAlinden and Execu-Search CEO & Founder Edward Fleischman discuss how they think the jobs report doesn’t reflect the underlying economy and the hiring outlook for 2014. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Showing posts with label recruitment. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) –- Catalpa Capital Founder, Chairman & CIO Joseph McAlinden and Execu-Search CEO & Founder Edward Fleischman discuss how they think the jobs report doesn’t reflect the underlying economy and the hiring outlook for 2014. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Through the eyes
of some employees, training is considered to be a necessary hassle to be added
into their already hectic working life. Although they know that employee
development training will be critical for the success of the business and in
order to keep update with the trends, innovations and further advancement in
their fields of expertise. And it is also no helps that many companies organize
and run their training programs but contribute to less or no changes at all in
their employee improvement. This might be due to the cost and time constraint
in order to revamp or incorporated new content to their outline of the program.
Training and
employee development program normally contribute to higher employee retention
and loyalty and it also helps to give the company a better impression to their
potential employees. With an increasing demands of qualified talent each year
these days, is becoming a highly relevant subject matters to have a relevant,
interesting, training and development program that can cater all the employees
who participate in the program regardless their working level. To reach the
goal, how a training program can remain relevant and interesting to these
employees without putting too much budget for the companies to invest on them?
Experience in
catering & developing different training program for various business in
our 5 different global locations, Enigma CG suggests you six ways on how to jump-start
your training & development program and remain relevant at the same time:-
Invest in Leadership Development
In today’s time,
conscious leadership that is a combination of both business and relationship
skills are much needed. Over the next few decades, many baby boomers will be
expected to retire from their current position so there will be a potential
void for experienced leaders. This increase will later combined with the
ongoing production of millennials that will make some of the current programs
to be obsolete and no longer relevant. Investing in order to fine tune the
current leadership development program or creating a particularly new one, a
business can get ahead with this pending gap and continued to be poised in
becoming the strong, well-developed leader for tomorrow.
Keep training relevant
Employees dread
and despise trainings that are not related to their routine and everyday work
life. So as expected, many will refuse to engage and furthermore decline to
participate. Try to pick your course offering and the participants that will be
participating. Decide and check if it is relevant to their work and job scope.
Will the outline help these workers to overcome their current obstacles in
completing their work with success? Everything should be put into account when
deciding the course that fit your employees to ensure the success in the end of
the program, either it will improve or break your employees. Make sure certain
course materials are still relevant and help the participants now or in the
immediate future to grow.
Bringing in a new trainer
In many
organizations, the same people will be conducting the training over the years.
There is a chance that their course content or materials might be irrelevant to
the person these days. A new trainer can add a new flavor to the current topics
as they can bring in different point of view and perspective besides adding up
new content that can further engage the audience by expanding their knowledge
further.
The new trainer
doesn’t have to be expensive either because there could be an expert trainer
lies within the four walls of your business and it might also be people from inside
the organization. Reaching out to business peers and mentors to gain insights
& expertise as well.
Create options
Make all
training program to be easily accessible to all your employees. Start off by
creating real-time offering, recorded offering and online offering to entice
your employees further. Also you can give options for your employees to attend it
either remotely or in person, considering where they are currently located. Prepare
for other workers that non-traditionally work in shifts schedule. New
technology has enable the program to be manage a lot easier by providing a
platform for it to be accessed anyway either remotely or online and use the
chance to get the full use of these technologies to allow easier and less
expensive course & training to be conducted.
This kind of
capability allows greater flexibility of how a course and training program can
be conducted while enabling the employees to participate in the course and
furthermore increase the attendance rates and in turn the likelihood of the
subject matters can be retained.
Change the scenery
If the training
is normally conducted in an onsite training center or a corporate conference
room, you might want to consider moving to other location. Sometimes a change
in scenery might be good to get these participants to be attentive at their
seminars and training programs because it left all the other distractions back
at their workplace and their mind will be free to accept any knowledge coming
their way. It doesn’t have to be an exotic location but it can be in other
corporate location, training center and even outdoor. It is essential to get
the employees out of the office once in a while and take them into the neutral
scenery so their mind will be freed from all the distractions that may arise in
the office. This will encourage the participants to be more engage and willing
to learn with the program.
Feedback, Feedback & Feedback
From before,
during and after the class, do make sure you ask for feedback from your
employees or participants. Ensure they are satisfied and learn quite a lot
during the training so it will benefit them. Once you received the feedback,
make sure to review it and later act on it if there are any issues that to be
addressed. Acting from the feedback received, employees will most likely
provide an open end and honest feedback that will move forward. It is also
important to ask for feedback from employees that absent from the non-mandatory
session because by knowing the reason behind their absence, employers will know
what is the step to take that can help reduce non-attendees in the future.
By keeping the
current training program up-to-date and relevant will help increase the
utilization of the program further. Instead of having your employees dreading
about the training course, now they will be looking forward to participate as
they can gain more knowledge and insights that can help improve their method of
work and increase their level of productivity. An additional benefit in
training and development program for employees is reduction of turnover and
increase in employee loyalty. Investing in corporate training will ensure their
workforce to be able to serve them better in the new future.
Forget Monster, Craigslist
and Jobstreet.
In this
millennium competitive job market, you have to start doing things differently
if you want to succeed further. Also it is a requirement to start innovating
the way you reach your desired candidates who might already have their job
elsewhere. That’s where many recruitment agencies and companies these days
embracing creative recruiting as an alternative that enable them to get away
from the hassle of going through a stack of poor-fit profiles. By adding an
interactive group interview during the recruitment process in order to actively
seeking potential talents at unusual places. There are right now list of ways
for company to innovatively change the hiring process.
This will make
your business to ultimately stand out in the crowd and enable you to reach your
ideal candidates.
Use self-selection to see who’s really interested.
To help you to
better filter the staffing selection process, you can innovate the way of the
resume submission by trying to add another layer to it and also during the
one-on-one interview process. One best option is to invite all the eligible
applicants to an open group event such as an open house. It is rather easy to
assume all applicants will come for the event but from most open event
organized worldwide there is a solid percentage of less than 50% who come to
the event. Self-selection is the way to see and filter applicants because it is
so easy to apply for anything but only few of them manage to take the first
step ahead to succeed. This stage will help lowered the screening process.
This strategy
will also help to evaluate how these people interact in groups.
Arrange for group interaction
Interaction with
potential candidates in the group will be an excellent way to see their unique
character, level of interest to the subject, their working knowledge and their
communication skills. This will help you to observe if their overall
characteristics will fit well with your organization culture. There are
different ways to conduct an interactive interviews but the fundamental feature
is selecting potential candidates and encourage them to interact in the group
discussion where later you and your current employer can engage with them. One
great example is doing something quite similar to ‘speed dating’ with each of
them.
You might also
take a bit more creative approach to later set up several of other activities
to determine and get the better ideas of the level of knowledge and their
passion for the industry as well as their personality.
Handpick dream candidates and how you wanted them
At most times,
passive candidates who might not actively seeking for a job might be one of
your dream hires. Usually these candidates are already employed and you might
never manage to attract them without letting them aware how much you want them to
join your company and work for you. Reaching out to them in a personal manner
might be the thing they need to see if you are really willing to go beyond your
usual to get their attention. There are actually many ways for you to
creatively approach these employees and maybe by offering incentives to flatter
them a bit. One of the case is by the Red 5 Studio, a video game company where
they randomly select 100 candidates and get to know them personally through
their social profile. Then each of them are sent a personalized iPod that
exclusively equipped with a welcome message by the CEO.
The flattery
usually paid off and more than what they expected actually responded to the
pitch where 3 of them left their previous job to join on board. Many other
potential hires found the company through the words of mouth generated by the
buzz.
Look For Talent in Unlikely Places
How can you
maintain a corporate culture while doing a fast hiring? Follow the step of the
Quicken Loan Company, they look for talents at unexpected places. They regard
as they are not finding the talents within their industry but far stretch their
lookout to the point where they simply hiring people out of the job scope. To
them, it is easier to teach people about finance but not to teach them about
passion, urgency and the willingness to go extra miles.
Attend events that are not job fair
Often job fairs
turn out to be useless as the crowd that usually flocked around are only the
common people searching for quick job. Rather than that as most of our
potential hires might already have their stable or permanent job at the moment,
it’s assumable that they would not be gathering around some job fairs. Start
off by looking at the conventions and events that aren’t traditionally job
search related. One of the highest probability to find potential hires was
through the Meetup where they organized group event of the same particular
interest, might be the perfect spot to look out for your best talents.
For example if
you are looking for a graphic designer or web editor, you can start your search
at the group event focusing on the graphic design seminar or web camp where all
the people from the same background interest and talent gathered to discuss
passionately about the subject. Because then, you will get the feel on how
passionate they are about what they are doing and get the feel of what they
would be like in person.
Making yourself stand out through non-traditional
media
In this year of
media & technology, you can’t assume by relying on your perfect job
description written on some job sites will make you stand out in the crowd.
With a little magic of technology, you can make it happen through a video or
podcast. Through the use of media, you can successfully convey the message to
your potential hires about your company’s corporate culture and just how fun is
it to work with your team.
Whether it’s a
fun video on YouTube showing how much fun it was to be working in your company
and how awesome the employees in your company would be. Maybe a recorded
podcast discussing about the job description of the particular job might just
do the trick. Hopefully this strategy will help to differentiate you from other
companies and make you stand out.
Actively search profile and social networking sites
Rather than
going through pile of bad fit resumes that you might be getting in the response
to your job post, you might try to seek your potential hires through something
else for example by searching through their social media profiles. This way you
will get to see only the candidates that you see fit and suitable for the job
because you done the search yourselves. These days there are several sites that
enable their users to create profile where they can add their knowledge and
past work experiences together so that recruiters will get a better ideas of
the candidates suitability to the job they will be offering.
This way
recruiters can view their resumes, conversation with others in the network, how
they engage and their contribution to answering the big questions. Through this
method, you are not only screening for the perfect candidates but you’ll also
learn a few things about them pre-interview.
Consider past candidates
Some of your
former rejects might be your potential hires now. There are times in the past
where you passed on some good candidates due to some unexpected reason or
another. Perhaps you might have disagreed with their expected salary package
which is just a bit too high or they are previously aren’t the ideal candidates
for the job in discussion. For whatever reason it was, if you think that the
current job offer would definitely fit with your previous candidates, it won’t
hurt for you to contact them and get in touch with them now just to see if they
are still interested.
Publicize referral incentives
Sometimes referrals
just might do the trick as the source for great hires. All you have to do was
let the people know that you are currently in the look out or even send out an
offer or incentive to send them your way. A financial reward might be ideal if
you would be hiring the referral in the end, but if your referrer is your
employee, non-monetary perks can be good too for example a day off or exclusive
parking spot.
However in order
to publicize outside of the company, some great ways to get the word out is by
including the note in your email signature telling that you are currently
looking, indicating what are you looking for as suggested by many experts.
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Aside from submitting a resume full of typos, there will be a chance you get turned down for a job offer when you accidentally say things that was not acceptable during your interview session. These so-called sayings are the easiest way to get you quickly eliminated from a job offer consideration. Basically it feels like putting your foot into your mouth technically. You might have aced your resume validation check and gave your hiring managers a great impression for the first time just by reading through your impressive resume but what happened when they meet you? Can you impress them the same way as what they saw in your resume previously? Some people may not get this but what do you say during your interview session matters as it is generally like your first audition. Hiring managers interview candidates to check whether you really fit for the job scope and the ability you have in handling the task required. Most of the qualities that they will put into consideration are the ability to think on your feet, creativity, emotional intelligence and your attitude. It’s not only what you say that counts but how do you say it. Furthermore, your tone of voice and body language will be watched closely during the interview to determine if you are the right man for the job. Here’s a few things that EnigmaCG suggests you should have avoided saying during your job interviews, regardless it was your first:-
“I’m really nervous”
Even if you are
nervous because it is your first job interview, you must never show it to your interviewers.
Remember as no company wants to hire people with an absolute lack of confidence
so you must avoid from showing it during your interview session. At this
moment, honesty is not the best policy so you’ll be better fake it until you
definitely make it.
“Let’s talk money”
You should never
discuss about salary at thee early stage of your interview process. Discussing
about salary can raise a red flag to some potentially great employers that you
are in it just for the sake of the paycheck and not for any deeper reason.
Today, more employers are looking for employees that can align to their mission
and their values. All the negotiation process on the salary should be done at
the end of the interview process.
“My weakness is that I care too much/ work so hard”
Another
important thing that you should never say during your work interview is
voluntarily talk about your weaknesses. Unless they ask you a standard question
of “What is your biggest weakness?” then you should never talk about it.
Even if you are
asked this question, just stay away from these answers because everybody will
know it is a masked strength that will be a turn off for every interviewers who
have been around the block all these years and you should focus on telling them
your true strength and spend time thinking of what is your true weaknesses and professionally
admit to them.
“I really need this job”
You should never
show the sign of desperation when you are in the job interview. And you must
never say that you need this job due to your current circumstance. Most
employers may view your desperation as a sign of weakness and again, they want
their employees to have a long term relationship and career goal with them and
which is not merely just a job.
“My current boss/employer is horrible”
Never try to
criticize your former boss or company ever during your job interview. Be
careful if the interviewers drag you into talking about your previous company
because you shouldn’t badmouth about your earlier company even how bad your
experience with them. It will not be classy and it will often make you sound
bitter, negative and petty. It also indicates that there will be a chance for
you to badmouth and talk negatively about other companies in the future. It
will also be a test to see if you would say something reproachful.
“I need…..”
Don’t ever make
the conversation all about your own need. You should listen and acknowledge the
company’s need and what you can do to help them in achieving it. Besides,
talking about your need will indicates that you will be someone that will
potentially be a high-maintenance and quite challenging to work with. Every
people has their own need so let’s not make your own be too obvious then what
it seems. EnigmaCG encourages candidates to start thinking of what they can do
to help the company they are having interview with on how they can contribute
to the company instead of what the company could give you.
“Do you know when we’ll be finished here?”
Don’t ever show
the sign that you are in a hurry to be somewhere else during your job
interview. A 30-minutes job interview could drag into 90-minutes if all goes
well and if the interview feels that you have to be somewhere else that is more
important it might and definitely be a turn off. EnigmaCG advised candidates to
be respectful to the interviewer by showing them how much you appreciate being
in the interview session. Giving a word of gratitude once in a while won’t hurt
your pride at all. Besides, showing them that you are in a hurry to be at other
place might showing them the sign that you are not appreciative towards the
opportunity they are about to give.
“I love the perks you offer”
Don’t bring up
on anything about how much you love the perks being offered by the company.
This will show signs that you are more interested with the benefits you will be
getting from the company rather than contributing to the employer’s success. At
least don’t try to show how excited you are about the benefits you will be
getting and care more about how you can help the company in achieving their
goal.
“I rather not say…”
Unless the
interviewer asks you a highly inappropriate and illegal questions or something
that makes you uncomfortable, you have every right to answer all the queries
from them. A job interview is never the best time to play with the ‘no comment’
remarks as it will show just how unprepared you are on the job interview and
much worse, they will think that you might have something serious to hide from.
“How much paid time off do I get in the first year?”
You shouldn’t
give them the impression that you determine to take all your available sick
leave and miss as much of your work while still getting paid for it. You can
just leave such question during the follow up interview or during your meeting
with the human resources for further discussion on the benefits.
“S—, d—, f—,
etc.”
Under any circumstance, never use the swear
words or slang terms during your conversation in the interview session just to
come across as ‘authentic’. This will only give people the impression how poor
is your communication skill.
EnigmaCG agrees that swearing will indicate
just how unprepared you are during the interview. Even if your interview is
done after the work hours where everyone else around you are swearing, please
finds a PG-rated words that you can use and use inflections or body language to
make your points.
“I’m getting
divorced/pregnant/going through a tough time.”
EnigmaCG advises against bringing up other
personal related matters or issues. This can be viewed as the major turn off to
any employers just for the whole host of reasons and not because it is about
whether your personal challenges might get in the way of your performance at
work or effecting your daily job activities.
“I don’t have
any questions for you.”
When you were asked if you have questions for
them, don’t say no. This will give them the impression that you aren’t
interested with the job nor the company itself. EnigmaCG encourages candidates
to ask if they have any enquiries on anything regarding their job responsibility
and also the company procedures because it will indicate just how much you have
researched about the company and how prepare you are in accepting your future
responsibility.
As far as all
concern, searching for job can sometimes be dreadful and a bit demoralizing.
EnigmaCG would like you to succeed because it would be good for you, the
company that hire you and for the overall economy. In fact EnigmaCG would
really like you to get the job which you can enjoy doing it, challenges you and
make best use of your overall strength. In the service of that, there are some
actions which we want you to steer away from during your job interview. These
actions as accordance to our expert won’t give you the impression which you
would like to make. While some of the interviewers might have a different
perspective in which attitude they prefer while some of them are very
particular when it comes to the candidates’ behavior that they are
interviewing.
Unfortunately
some of the interviewees get counseled to do some version of these things.
Having experience in recruitment consultancies over the years and having spoken
to many great hiring managers talking about what they like and what they don’t
during the interview given us some ideas on what are the things that you should
have avoided when attending an interview session. If you eagerly want the
interview session to go well, follow these instruction – don’t:-
Freeze Up
No matter how
impressive you are in talents or how excellent and appropriate your resume is
written, it will be a big turn off if you act articulate and silent during the
interviews. As daunting as it get, interview involved everything from your
clear and confidence answer to your body language, all will be put into account
before the further selection process continues. If you couldn't get through the
whole interview without crumbling, people will unlikely to believe that you
will be capable to withstand the stress of the real work. Most important thing
to do beforehand is to practice self-talk as a practice before the actual
interview.
Dominate
It’s good when
you already done your homework about the company you are going for interview.
It is also not a crime if you look like that you are well prepared for the job
but it surely annoying if you swept over the room as if it was your friend
dorm. This kind of attitude is exhaustive as it leave the interviewer with no
space to interrupt and later will be something that they don’t want to
experience every day. A good interview according to EnigmaCG should be a
dialogue session between the hiring manager and the candidate and not a
monologue that will eventually turn off the interviewer. If you tend to talk a
lot you might take into consideration to coach yourself to be curious about the
interviewer; what she or he might want to hear from you and what they don’t.
Be sloppy
Although some
companies practice casual dress code, others might still sticking with the same
official dress code as other major established companies do. Try to find out
before the interview what the standard dress code at the particular company is.
No matter how casual is the dress code, please don’t try to be sloppy. Having a
good personal hygiene will give the company a first good impression on yourself
during the interview. It is more important whether you are overdressed or
underdressed. If you come for an interview looking like you just rolled out of
your bed, it gives the indication that you have lack of respect for the
interviewer, the job and the company you are going for interview with.
Self-aggrandize
Often people are advised to market themselves
and show confidence during their interview, but it is easy to cross the thin
line from confidence to cocky. Answering questions as of you having no sign of
weaknesses other than your impatience for those who aren’t fabulous as you are
might come across as offensive and furthermore annoying. Balancing your
strength and weakness together and telling them how you manage to get them to
complement each other to achieve your earlier goal is better and come across as
far more mature through their eyes.
Throw anybody
under any bus
Even if your previous company feels like
Date’s Seven Circles of Hell, under any circumstance never try to share it with
your interviewer. Sometimes, people say bad things about their previous job
because they don’t know how it will be perceived as later by the interviewer.
You might actually think like it was a compliment to your current company but
the reality is far different. EnigmaCG believes that saying negative things
about your previous work life might give others the impression that you are
both a complainer and indiscreet, which two qualities that they don’t want
their future employees to have because later you might have the tendency to say
negative things about them too.
Focus more on
perks than on the job
Although many jobseekers are advised to ask
about the benefits they would get from the company they have interview with
rather than blindly taking it up for nothing, timing is necessarily critical.
It is truly annoying if you start discussing about them during your first
interview and it will give you the impression that you are only after the benefits
offered and not for the sake of the job itself. Although these are important
things to know, these should be discussed during the end or second round of
interview that will involve the human resource. This attitude will not inspire
the company to hire you now or later.
Be
opinion-free
It will be a struggling moment for a
candidate to come across as flexible and accommodating and it seems as they
agree with everything the interviewer says and suggests. While many companies
are looking for candidates that aren’t combative and rigid, they also need
employees who know what they are and understand what they are capable of and
what is important for them. Be expressive and speak yourself out as it shows
your true potential and whether you are the right candidate with an outstanding
demeanor among others that have been interviewed so far.
Stretch the
truth
As critical as it seems, in this era of
massive information availability, whatever you say and write either your past
work experience, performance or your education will most likely be checked
beforehand by the interviewer. It is better to be frank and upfront with
anything less than stellar by offering a simple explanation to avoid confusion
and distrust at the end. Believe us as trustworthiness is a priority and a
quite critical quality they would look for before hiring you for their company.
Be clueless
about the hiring company
Under any circumstance, please do an
extensive research on the company beforehand. In the age of digital and
information gateway, information can be available at any time and it will be
difficult to understand if you come for an interview without any knowledge on
the company you are interviewing with. It shows just how you are unprepared for
the interview and it will come across as insulting and incurious. If you don’t
know anything much about the company it will be easy for the interviewer to
assume you wouldn't be of much interest with knowing how to do the job well either.
If you do the opposite thing of what we
discuss here, you will ace the interview and eventually get into the ‘hired
list’ in just a matter of time.
Employment
agencies can inevitably secure you an employment opportunity in no time as they
plays an important part in marketing your talent to potential companies. There
are a lot of possibilities you can consider either you are temporarily securing
a job for a short gap of time or looking for a long term employment. If you are
looking for your dream job, then using these agencies will help you quite a lot
in term of time & money. Whatever work that you desire, staffing agencies
can help assisting you to find what exactly you have been looking for. EnigmaCG
encourages you to use recruitment agency to help fulfill your requirement in
job search as you will receive assistance and support to live up to the
expectation and standard set by organizations these days.
Securing a job
can be a tough task for people with minimum years of experience as competition
gets tougher from year to year with more students graduated from universities
and colleges and the industry however is looking for the best candidate around.
With these challenges arise, it will leave you with a hard time in securing
even for a job offer. Thus, recruitment agencies are here to help you in
overcoming these challenges by innovatively market you to the potential
companies through so many methods which also includes improvising the resume
and career development counseling. Here are the top reasons why you should be
using the recruitment agencies to secure your employment opportunities.
Access to wide range of job positions
Recruitment
agencies normally have an access to wide range of job positions and because
they have quite an enormous list of contacts with potential clients and
companies, there will be a big possibilities that they can match your profile
with the right employer which still looking for a candidate to fill up an
important position. So, how do you think you can go through all these talented
people out there just by sending up your resume and pray for them to check into
it later? By any case, that normally do not happen as they will go through a
pile of resumes that sometimes may get the employers into an ultimate boredom
due to the way how the resume is written. There will be a slight chance that
they will come across with your profile in the end. With recruitment agencies,
you can skip through all these procedures and jump directly to the front for
the job you want. These recruitment agencies deal with the companies on daily
basis and for many cases, they have the strong connection that will benefit you
later.
Saving your time
Another factor
was saving your time when going through all the insignificant job interviews
the whole day. Have you ever experience the time when you have gone through
interviews for jobs that sometimes have nothing to do with your work
experience? Recruitment agencies match the perfect candidate according to their
talent with the right company so you won’t have to go through all these
exhaustive experience and go directly for the interview with the right company
for the right job you want. Some agencies have certain roles which they will be
pushing off to their clients and it is slightly preferable as it will assist
you in getting the right kind of role in the right company for your long term
success.
Expert in their fields
Recruitment
agencies have access to the wide information and details on their clients and
it helps you to decide on which role from which company that will suit you. In
short, they know their way around better than you and they can offer tips and
advise on how to select a career path properly. As expert in their own field,
they have a great deal of experience in managing the employment process which
will benefit you in long term run. They can offer you vital information and
resources when dealing with potential clients for example, the salary
expectation. Many candidates are unsure what to submit to their employers
during the first stage of their interviews and often undersell themselves.
These agencies will help you to get what you are truly worth.
Perfect for temporary recruitment
There are times
when you will be looking for temporary and immediate work due to any
circumstance. Employment agencies can assist you in finding such opportunities
at the right time. You will be given the role immediately once you fit into all
the required criteria. There are cases when people in need of money for quite a
short term basis and don’t know which role that suit them well to start looking
for it, recruitment agencies come across as a guardian angels for these people
to secure a short term basis role that will later lead to possible long term
employment opportunity.
Great people skills
Reference are
always important practically in any industry. Your past work experiences are
vital to all your upcoming employers and by using the recruitment agencies, it
will eventually limiting the amount of time of your listed referees are
contacted. Recruitment agencies can also offer advice on which referee that you
can share their contact with as some might have quite a negative feedback from
their previous employment. These people often possesses great people skills
which will help to better mediate between you and your employer to show the
bigger picture.
Wealth of knowledge
It is also
essential for candidates to use staffing agencies because with the wealth of
knowledge they have in hand, they will be able to place you in a better
position and environment. A recruitment agency can decide either you are in a
perfect fit for the job in the company or if the workplace culture and
environment is right for you. Often they will offer you advice on which company
is the right place for you and if the job scope is suitable for you to handle.
There are times when there are roles that sounds suitable but right through the
responsibilities are slightly nothing like what the candidates thought off so
the recruitment agencies are trying their best to minimize these problems.
Strict confidentiality rules
Through
recruitment agencies you will be able to maintain strict confidentiality with
your potential new employer without your current employer knowing that you are
actively seeking for a job. Plus, they won’t release your detail to anybody
without your prior authorization. This will give you a piece of mind that no
random calls from unwanted company coming in to bother and to further assist
people who already having their full time job that their current boss won’t
aware that they are currently looking out for opportunities.
Free of charge
And finally it
is the one thing that you should be considering, that it is free of charge.
Being free means you have nothing to worry about having an upfront payment in
any case. All the payment will be done by the employer once you are officially
on board. There you have nothing to fuss about when you choose to go with a
recruitment agencies, all your matters will be well taken care of.
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