subject: The Benefits of Flat Fee Recruitment [print this page] The Benefits of Flat Fee Recruitment The Benefits of Flat Fee Recruitment
Recruitment is an ever changing practice and over the last few decades has consequently become a consistently evolving standalone industry. Recruitment focussed organisations provide an incredibly useful service to businesses of all sizes, within all industries - by utilising their expertise to source candidates for vacant positions within the company's staff. As techniques develop and the power of the internet as a recruitment tool begins to exert its force to an increasingly greater extent, new schools of recruitment methodology have formed. Modern day recruitment is a much more elaborate and targeted process than simply placing an advert in the jobs section of the newspaper, similarly; choosing the best form of recruitment for your company can be a complicated undertaking given the vast differences in technique, practices and price.The core factor to look at if you are comparing the relative merits of different recruitment organisations is value. Value in terms of the best candidate at the best possible price, as opposed to simply opting for inconsistent quality and service but at the lowest possible cost. At the other end of the spectrum, laying out tens of thousands of pounds for a new director through a headhunting agency will not necessarily ensure that you get a better person for the job. In the majority of instances flat fee recruitment (also known as fixed fee recruitment) will turn out to be the most cost effective way of filling individual roles or multiple positions with the best possible candidates.Flat fee recruitment (as the name suggests) is a service which is performed for clients for an arranged fixed cost and is ideal for companies of all sizes. The pre-established set fee ensures that the recruitment process falls firmly within budget and similarly; those organisations who are looking to fill more than one role don't have to pay any extra if they chose to employ any number of candidates sourced by the fixed fee campaign. Flat fee recruiters will tend to work more closely with the client and launch fresh, carefully planned advertising campaigns through relevant job boards and online and offline versions of major publications. In contrast to many 'industry specific' recruitment agencies who build a pool of candidates within a certain sector who they then attempt to sell to companies for a percentage of the new employee's salary for their first year - flat fee recruitment organisations act 100% in the best interests of the client and generate new applications in each instance.For smaller companies or those operating on a particularly tight recruitment budget; flat fee recruitment allows them absolute budgetary control to ensure that they are not spending more than they are comfortable to do so. Whilst larger companies are also likely to enjoy this benefit, they are most probably going to be even more drawn to the idea of paying a set fee as opposed to a potentially huge sum as a percentage of a new employee's salary. Companies of all sizes and turnovers will surely enjoy the benefit of being able to allocate business resources to more pressing requirements by outsourcing their recruitment to experts rather than having to deal with it in-house.
