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If you’re looking for ways to control costs, improve recruitment and retention, or shorten the hiring process, working with a staffing firm can yield exponential benefits. But if you’ve never worked with a recruiter before, it can be difficult to determine exactly what your staffing firm needs from you in order to give you their best efforts.

To get the best results from your recruiter relationship, keep these tips in mind:

  1. Communicate openly, effectively, and often. Regular, clear communication is the foundation of every good company-recruiter relationship. Give your staffing firm a clear list of the requirements and expectations for each job role. If an employee did outstanding work in this role in the past, describe this employee to your recruiter. Similarly, if a past employee did badly, tell your recruiter what you learned from that experience about what you don’t
  2. Provide feedback on candidates – good and bad. Whether you love a recommended candidate or hate them, pick up the phone or send an email to let your recruiter know. The more feedback you provide on candidates, the more information your recruiter has to inform future recommendations.
  3. Implement a more responsive hiring process. Candidates working with staffing firms do so because they trust their recruiter to help them find the right job more quickly. As an employer, you become more competitive among these top candidates when your hiring process is responsive and moves smoothly and steadily toward a conclusion, instead of leaving candidates hanging – or worse, accepting offers from competitors. Your recruiter can help you streamline the hiring process.
  4. Include your recruiter when planning ahead. Staffing firms excel at helping you find the right person for this job – but they also specialize in helping their clients create strategic staffing plans to ensure that a strong candidate pool is available for every position and need, without breaking the bank. For help planning company growth or controlling staffing costs, talk to your recruiter.
  5. Work with your recruiter to close the deal. When you decide to extend a job offer to a recruiter-recommended candidate, talk to your recruiter before making the offer. Your staffing firm has access to a wide range of industry data that will help ensure your offering is competitive and attractive to the candidate you want most.

At SMR Group Ltd, our recruiters focus on finding the best sales and marketing talent available and matching candidates with the biotech, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies that create the best job “fit.” Contact us today to learn more about our sales and marketing recruiting services.


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