Apologies to my blogger friends

Guys, what can i say about the site. I needed somewhere to try adSense and as there is currently very little traffic going through this site I thought it could be a really good place to try it. The whole site rather seems to be overwritten with Ads so the next step is to see how i can manage the type and quantity of ads that are placed here. I suspect managing that will be nothing like as easy as setting it up in the first place, but this is all part of the learning curve of life. In the meantime i thought i would put a copy of the mail that I sent out at the beginning of the week so you have a permanent copy of a different way to use RMP.
In conversations that I have had with you over the last couple of weeks it has become apparent that several of you are looking into the possibility of offering direct recruitment services to companies that are carrying out their own recruitment rather than using an agency. Great idea – I have looked into this a little myself and from the market research that I have carried out (posh way of saying “the conversations that I have had with companies doing their own recruitment in the south West), this is what I have found out:

Three main reasons for them not go through agencies

1. Too expensive
2. Lack of control
3. Bad experiences in the past, these being
a. Just being inundated with CVs – so the agency not really doing any work at all

b. Wasting time interviewing or worse employing the wrong people

So what I think is there might well be a niche for is a very different and certainly less expensive option. What appealed to several companies that I spoke to was a service that did all the initial candidate screening but left them in control of how many and which ones they interviewed. I was talking to one business owner who runs a nursing home and she told me that she was getting in the region of 45 CVs every time she advertises for even the most junior role, so the time involved in sorting these to decide which were appropriate for interview and therefore the internal costs was huge.

I talked with her about what sort of service would make sense and came up with something like this:

An admin service – not to recruit anyone but purely to do the initial sifting. The service would be for a fixed fee and provide a defined number of candidates accompanied with their CVs and PARI analysis, more candidates and candidate packs could be provided if required for an extra charge. This service provides the employer with only candidates that match their requirements, provides a solid reason for not seeing others (no claims for unfairness or discrimination) and obviously brings the company culture and personality requirements in as well.

I was suggesting this service being charged at circa 5% of the salary for 5 candidates and then a set price per candidate/candidate pack (PARI Analysis report and CV) thereafter, and as this is not a recruitment job, it is a straight forward admin task and should be seen and sold as such.