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Speed and continually moving forward are the keys to successful recruitment
A lot can happen in a short space of time. Make sure you’re conducting second interviews as quickly as possible. Those that spend too much time thinking or allowing other tasks to get in the way of the recruitment process rarely get to interview their first choice candidate a second time.
Make sure that everyone involved at second interview stage is available and realises the importance of carrying out second interviews quickly – if a manager isn’t available to interview for several weeks because they’re just too busy or important – you can be sure that your first choice candidate won’t be available either!
We only send you people that we feel will interview well enough to be genuine contenders for the job. We don’t want to waste your time and we don’t want to waste ours. Unlike some other recruitment consultancies, we don’t see recruitment as a ‘numbers game’.
We don’t play games – we do offer an honest and sincere service.
Providing your requirement includes relatively mainstream technologies, experience or skills and you’re not based in an area with a very low population, we will be interviewing the very best people for you from a fairly substantial list of several hundred.
In short, the CV’s we send you are the best the current market has to offer. Being the very best, the people we select for you to interview are often shown the most interest from other employers looking for people with the same skill set or experience.
Act quickly – be the first
We have sent you the five or six people that we feel will actually impress you. We have already carried out the very first interview stage as part of our partnership with you. The people we send have been carefully chosen on the merits of employment history, communication skills, applicable experience, likely journey time to site, salary expectation and overall personality.
If you only want to interview one of our six we either need a further meeting to discuss your vacancy in greater detail or you’re being unrealistic!
We believe we form a partnership with our customers. Our customers’ best interests are top of our priority list.
To give you the very best chance of employing the most talented, we need to be decisive.
If you are serious about employing the best, you need to take action and contact us to make the earliest possible interview arrangements.
Delaying on reviewing CV’s will only result in the people we have selected finding new jobs at other companies in your area before you even get the chance to interview the people we have selected.
Don’t be fooled by what you read in the press – there is not a skills shortage – there are hundreds of average people waiting to join your company. There is a shortage of extremely good people that have skills and experience in all areas – make sure you’re giving yourself the best chance of employing the talented.
Acting quickly on CV’s and agreeing to interview people is not enough – make sure you can actually start the interview process quickly too.
Agreeing to interview people two weeks after we have introduced them to you will almost certainly ensure that the best have several second interviews arranged or even a new job to start before you even get a chance to meet them.
Comparisons – indecision
‘We need to see a couple more CV’s’ – ‘we need a comparison’. Two of the most frustrating things an Ashdown Group Account Manager is likely to hear! The Account Managers at the Ashdown Group are highly trained and highly skilled - they are backed up by databases containing well over a million CV’s.
There are two ways of looking at a shortage of candidates to interview – be decisive and quickly recognise that we have done well to get a talented person interested and ready to accept your offer – snap up someone who may be one in a thousand or hope and wait for another miracle to happen.
Sometimes, ‘a couple more’ just aren’t out there and that needs to be accepted. ‘Send me what you’ve got’ isn’t the most satisfying way for us to carry out the recruitment process.
Our advice when faced with a comparison problem is to compare the person you’ve interviewed with an existing member of your team - offer quickly if you think someone would be a valuable addition.
How can Ashdown help further?
The Ashdown Group have one of the largest private databases of candidates in the UK and have access to unique jobseekers that are not on job boards or may not be actively looking. Our experience in IT, HR, Marketing and Accountancy recruitment means we are able to send the most suitable and available jobseekers quicker than others. Please call us on 08456 434 456 and we will be able to talk to you about your requirement.
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