Ashamed of the Recruitment industry!

I think the recruitment industry is a disgrace. There are far too many recruitment companies out there charging highly expensive fees, for doing very little.

Now I remember a time when recruitment was a tough old job, you had to network to find candidates, build loyal relationships with the people you place and hope they value your services enough to refer a friend, take your business cards to the local pub and eves drop like mad in the hope that the conversation between too mates in the corner involved words to the effect of

"I am sick of my job, I need to move on”!

Fast forward a few years and it's all got a little bit easier. Job boards... Monster, Fish, Reed, to name a few.

They have done for recruitment what super sonic did for air travel... So imagine, you advertise your clients role, search the few thousand CVs on line, very shortly you have 2 0r 3 relevant candidates - send them to your clients, fingers crossed all goes well............hey presto your accounts department are invoicing 15 - 25% of the first year package to your client.... Easy money!!!

My advice to employers

1) If you use an agent – ask them to justify the fee
2) Ask them how and where the role will be advertised
3) Let me know how you get on!