| In a time when the economy still isn't quite where | | | | Lack of Experience - As an employer you may know |
| everyone would want to be, companies who are still | | | | what you are looking for but that is rarely enough. |
| hiring may wonder why they should incur the potential | | | | Some people will say anything to get the job, especially |
| additional expense of working with a recruitment firm | | | | in times like these. They will pad their resumes, make |
| rather than going it alone on the hiring front. However, | | | | up degrees even have friends pose as references. |
| whatever the state of affairs in the world there are still | | | | Recruitment agency personnel are used to weeding |
| a number of excellent reasons that a company should | | | | these people out - they come across them all the time |
| certainly consider enlisting outside help when trying to fill | | | | - and have the time to conduct the kind of in-depth |
| vacancies: | | | | background check that really needs to be performed, |
| Lack of Time - Much of the time a company has to | | | | but the employer probably does not have time for. |
| hire quickly, to fill a void that has been unexpectedly | | | | Hiring from the Heart - In many companies, big and |
| opened up in the company, leaving others to fill in and | | | | small, if there is a vacancy that desperately needs to |
| perhaps even important tasks neglected. When hiring in | | | | be filled the boss will consider hiring a current |
| a situation like this employers tend to "settle", hiring | | | | employees mother, brother, sister, boyfriend, anyone if |
| someone who has most of the attributes they were | | | | they seem to match most of the criteria. This |
| looking for but not all. | | | | however is rarely a good idea, how are you going to |
| Recruitment firms have a pool of prescreened talent | | | | face Mars Jones, who has been with you for years, |
| and will usually only send candidates to be interviewed | | | | when young Wayne turns out not to be the man for |
| by their clients if they really are a match for the job | | | | job and has to be let go? Letting someone else locate |
| requirements, increasing the chances that an employer | | | | and screen candidates for you takes much of the |
| will find talent that is truly capable of getting the job | | | | emotion out of the situation. |
| done. | | | | |