subject: The Usual Procedures Involved In Direct Hire Services [print this page] Direct hire services is the need of the hour with huge competition for qualified candidates for different job positions in organizations irrespective of their size and location factors. The direct hire services usually involve identifying exceptional candidates both employed and unemployed who are unavailable through traditional sources of recruitment. The direct hire services provide an opportunity for the corporations to grow and replenish their resources internally for their future requirements.
Direct hire services of late are using the latest methodology of hiring the candidates for the organizations to get the best from the talent pool. One of the strategies being used by a reputed staffing firm involves developing a comprehensive framework to manage and streamline the process of securing a candidate for a defined position. The following strategy was developed as a method by the staffing firm for direct hire process:
1. Developing strategy: The first step involves understanding the organization in order to get fully empowered to source the right candidate for the role. The staffing firm will first interview the key members of the client organizations to thoroughly understand the position and also to understand about the organization. This includes understanding about the work culture of the organization, its market space etc. After completing this process, the staffing firm then develops the game plan for finding out the right candidate.
2. Sourcing and Executing: The next step after the strategy is defined by the team of the staffing agency involves sourcing the potential candidates from its (staffing agency) database and other extensive networks. The concerned agency then uses all staffing methods and then finds out those candidates who are the best match for the concerned job position but are open for a change. Once the pool of candidates is identified, the staffing agency then talks to each of the candidate and arranges a meeting with a select group of finalists. From those finalists and through subsequent filtering process, the list is narrowed down to the best potential candidates that best fits the job position.
3. Nomination and selection: The final list of candidates so filtered is then sent to the client organization and the process of running and scheduling the interviews go hand in hand. Finally, feedback is gathered from both the client organization and the candidates. The concerned staffing agency becomes the key interface between the client organization and candidate all the way through the process to selection.
4. Closing the deal: When the client organization selects the best candidate, the staffing agency works closely with the candidate to participate in negotiations related with salary and other aspects of employment process. The staffing agency also helps the candidate in sailing through the new employment opportunity to ensure clearing initial hiccups of the new job.
