Are your job candidates taking other offers before you get through your hiring process?

Hiring Manager Alert:  If you’ve a problem with candidates taking other positions during your interview and hiring process, it’s likely that you’ve gotten your candidates from career opportunity boards, newspaper ads, and so on…which means that it’s also likely that you’ve contacted ‘em late in the career opportunity search cycle.    

To avoid this problem, the solution is simple:  work with a recruiter.  A recruiter prescreens candidates for you, eliminating the waste of your time and productivity on a candidate who ultimately won’t be available. 

Advantages of working with a recruiter:

·         You won’t waste time reading through resumes of unqualified candidates

·         You won’t waste time on phone interviews with clueless candidates

·         You won’t waste time interviewing candidates who don’t “fit”

·         You will only interview candidates who are qualified, informed of the job and the pay scale, and interested in the career opportunity

·         You will maximize your productivity

·         You will stand out as someone who finds quality hires

I advise small companies especially to move quickly through the interviewing and hiring process – don’t take shortcuts, but do be quick. This can be a competitive advantage in the “war for talent”.  A recruiter will be an efficient resource for hiring managers to use to discover the best candidates in the shortest time possible.

Bottom line:  As in all things, if you want something done quickly and well, hire an expert.  Use a recruiter…hopefully, a headhunter who specializes in your industry.  For instance, a medical sales recruiter will know what you need for specific career opportunities in clinical sales, clinical laboratory sales, medical diagnostics revenue, pharmaceutical equipment sales, pharma device sales, DNA products revenue, imaging sales, clinical laboratory sales, hospital equipment sales, surgical supply revenue, or any specialized area of healthcare sales.  Take advantage of your recruiter’s experience, industry knowledge, and network, and reap the rewards of a career opportunity well done. 

Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally
recognized pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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