Recruitment Services

Recruitment services let you hand the reins over to the real experts – but what does a tailored recruitment service include, and how do you decide what’s right for your organisation?

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What are recruitment services?

To help them attract, find and bring on new talent, organisations can outsource their recruitment needs to third-party recruitment specialists, who provide recruitment services to their client.

Recruitment outsourcing services help organisations find, interview and hire new talent. This includes anything from developing job ads, screening applicants, arranging interviews, and managing communication.

While recruitment agencies are relatively common, they’re not the only model for providing professional recruitment services.

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Who uses recruitment services?

Almost any organisation looking to bring on new talent can benefit from recruitment services, including:

SMEs and start-ups without in-house HR/recruitment who want to invest in successful business growth
Growing organisations who want to support their HR team during a busy period or expand their staff size significantly
Large or international companies who want a dedicated global recruitment partner and/or specialist sector expertise.

What’s included in recruitment services?

Between a total package recruitment solution or tailored recruitment services with flexible support, there are plenty of benefits and aspects to consider. What might work for you and your organisation from the list below?

Discussing vacancy requirements
While not every solution will include this service, recruitment consulting services and other wider-focus agencies will work with you to outline what you need.

From -discussing the ins and outs of an upcoming vacancy to deep-diving on what you’re looking for in a candidate, the smarter recruitment services always take the time to understand:
- Who you are as an organisation
- What makes you a great place to work for
- How you can present your workplace in the best light
- What’s required of the role you’re looking to fill
- Which kind of applicants you’re drawn to and why
- How you approach recruitment from a strategic standpoint.
Optimising and sharing your job advertisement
Whether you’re looking to attract candidates from nearby or anywhere in the world, recruitment outsourcing services can help you:
- Create a compelling job advertisement
- Post the job description online on all the right job boards
- Market your vacancy and get it seen by the right candidates.
Writing a job description isn’t just about listing your requirements. Businesses need to sell themselves – their benefits, their culture, and their mission – to potential candidates. Recruitment marketing services know this and can help achieve that balanced message.
Search for promising candidates

Another advantage of using a recruitment service is they’ll go out and proactively engage with potentially candidates online.

Many recruitment services companies will not only search online CV databases for promising candidates, they’ll dip into their own talent pools. For example, IRIS Networx recruitment services has a dedicated candidate database and send out recruitment newsletters to drum up interest.

While regional recruitment services will have stronger insight into regional job markets, the right nationwide recruitment services will still have the resources to get the job done.
Screening and shortlisting candidates

When you’ve outsourced recruitment services to the experts, you don’t need to worry about wading through hundreds of CVs.

Recruitment services will often conduct an initial sift of CVs, filtering out unsuitable applications and putting promising candidates forward. This saves your in-house team hours of time per vacancy, and means your hiring manager (or similar) can focus on applicants that already fulfil their basic criteria.

Plus, if you’ve found the right recruitment support services, they’ll have all the insight they need to pick out candidates who are likely to make a great cultural fit, too.
Arranging interviews

We all know that arranging an online meeting with even a small handful of colleagues can get tricky. Unsurprisingly, organising formal interviews with dozens of external candidates and various internal stakeholders can feel like a full-time job in of itself.

When you’re outsourcing the recruitment process to a professional service provider, they handle all that for you. They’ll liaise with the applicant, the in-house hiring team (or equivalent), and the interviewers to confirm a date and time.

And if anything needs to change or someone has to cancel, they’ll take action to rearrange the call or make other arrangements.
Managing communication, offers and feedback
As mentioned in the point above, professional recruitment services will manage almost all communications.

They are, essentially, functioning as a go-between for you and your candidates, which means:
- You don’t need to worry about inadvertently “ghosting” (neglecting to message) candidates during a drawn-out recruitment process
- Candidates receive a positive, professionally polished first impression of your company
- They will respond to candidates quickly and efficiently, answering questions and keeping applicants in the loop
- Experienced professionals will be on hand to have any difficult or high-stakes conversations, such as informing a candidate they’ve been unsuccessful or negotiating an offer.

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Recruitment service or recruitment agency?

What’s the difference between a recruitment service and a recruitment agency?

Technically, a recruitment agency is a type of recruitment service – it uses an agency-style model, which involves charging the client a placement fee for successfully placing a candidate in the role.

On the other hand, recruitment services like IRIS Networx don’t charge placement fees.

A recruitment service that feels like part of your team

Just because you’re putting your faith in an external recruitment service to find new talent doesn’t mean they’re functioning as a separate entity.

Recruitment service providers like IRIS Networx work as an extension of your team, supporting you with tailored recruitment services and powerful, proactive search strategies.

IRIS Networx Recruitment Services delivers agency style support without the associated costs, taking the hard work out of recruitment and uniting you with your ideal talent.

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IRIS Networx

“We engaged with IRIS Networx after we were made aware of the benefits they had delivered to St. Luke’s Hospice. The team at Networx have helped us to significantly reduce the time it takes to recruit whilst offering a slick and user friendly application experience that we believe clearly sets us apart from other charities.”