Zero Risk Recruitment (Virtually)

Posted on March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 by Jim Foster

Retained Search with (Virtually) Zero Risk Recruitment Hiring Managers would love to have Zero Risk Recruitment, especially when hiring the critical people they need most. Most hiring managers that I speak to in Cyber Security & ICT market tell me they would always use Retained Search over other recruitment methods if they knew it would deliver. They see that, when it’s done properly, it usually provides consistent and predictable results. Retained Search usually delivers top perfor...

Your Recruitment Partner

Posted on July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 by Admin123

Managing the Recruitment Process - Your Recruitment Partner The final 3 instalments of this series discuss the recruitment process. This first instalment considers the subject of selecting Your Recruitment Partner. Whether you will use a contingency recruitment process, where a fee is only paid to the recruiter who is successful in getting their candidate placed.. Or a retained process, where a search consultant is engaged by a company to search the market on their behalf. In both cases...

Building a Project Management Team

Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 by Admin123

The Problem: We had been working for one particular client, a UK business providing Global Managed Network Services to large International Corporation, for a few months. Working with them on a number of opportunities, in Sales, Presales and Operations. Now they needed a solution for their Project Management Team. Project Management is a key and critical area of their service. Getting the right resource to manage and implement the projects in time had proved problematic. They simply could not...

Antal-JFA Two levels of Search Solution

Posted on June 19, 2018October 1, 2018 by Admin123

Antal-JFA provides two levels of Search Solution - Retained & Contingency Search The recruitment market is difficult to navigate, with many companies using internal recruitment teams or outsourcing their recruitment. Almost all companies we have spoken to, tell us that they have a great deal of difficulty filling specialised jobs. This is especially so in the technical recruitment market where there is a severe Skills Shortage. In 2017 in the USA alone there was estimated to be 40,000 unf...

Recruitment Process – The End Game

Posted on May 14, 2018September 26, 2018 by Admin123

So you have identified the person you want to hire and have made an offer. This is now the point when it can all too often go horribly wrong if mismanaged. And its the part of the recruitment process where most companies and recruitment agencies spend far too little effort. The result of this is all too often that the candidate backs out of the deal. (over 50% of recruitment process that reach the offer stage still don't result in a successful hire) The Decision, Brokering the Offer & Resig...

APS Talent Solutions

Posted on November 10, 2017July 9, 2018 by Jim Foster

Leave your technical & senior recruitment to the specialists. There are numerous Blogs and Articles out there about the true cost of recruitment, I have written a couple myself. Its true to say that if you ask most hiring managers and HR Recruiting partners, they will totally underestimate these costs. APS Talent Solutions will help you control these costs. The first and sometimes only cost that is taken into considerations is: ‘How much the recruiter charges’ or ‘How much it costs to ...

5 Reasons Top Performers Leave Your Business

Posted on July 20, 2016June 14, 2018 by Jim Foster

And this is in order of priority. As search consultants, we are always talking to our market's Top Performers and High Achievers. Key to our role is to get people to leave their current job and move to our clients business. As such, we need a deep understanding of the motivation for a person to leave. There has to be a positive reason why a person will leave their job that's not just dangling a carrot. We have to get under the skin of the job to understand what will push them away! So h...