Top Tips For Finding Candidates In Recruitment agency Jobs

So you're a recruitment consultant, you have a good vacancy with a good client.  You have established a decent relationship.  To begin with you check on your database of candidates looking for this type of job a few months back but you've drawn a blank.  I'm sure you've been in a situation like this before, you think this is going to pass you by.  In reality however, if there is somebody out there and you don't find them, somebody else will.  If somebody else does, they will make a fee out of it and you won't.

If you have a mental block, then you need to clear your mind of any assumptions or judgments that you have made and go back to a process.  In my experience in times like these, it's usually somebody who is already on the database that gets hired.  It could be somebody that I have missed out, or for some reason just didn't contact.  In recent memory I have never not heard of somebody who has been hired, or that I couldn't have found by other means.  To avoid this happening to you, you need to build a process and follow it to find available contacts.

Here are some top tips

- Look up anybody that you have placed in the area before.  Give them a call and try to gain referrals, it's likely they will know somebody who may be interested.

- To broaden your candidate pool, have a look to see who was available around two or three years ago.  People tend to work in cycles, they may well be looking again.

- Get a free trial on a jobs board with a CV search facility.  It's a bit of a long shot, but with so many jobs boards around and the fact that you only need to get lucky once to make a fee should justify spending a little bit of time doing this. Always search in Google for newer boards and keep an up to date database of them.

- Phone the people that you have previously placed, regardless of location.  Explain that you have a vacancy and ask if they know of anybody who may be interested.  They will be more than likely to help out and you could be surprised at who they know!

- Consider teaming up with another agency and share the fee.  After all 50% of a fee is better than 0% of a fee.  If you can build a small network with other agencies, you can really improve the amount of placements that you make.  You will be providing a better service to your clients as you will be filling their vacancies more often and the amount of work to placement ratios that are successful should level out.  If you are making more placements than some agencies on your network, consider removing them from it!

For all of these tips, when speaking to somebody always ask them if they know anybody who could be suitable. If done religiously you will find that it should produce extra candidates on a frequent basis.  A first hand character reference should also be accepted, if somebody is said to be good, then give them a shot!
None of these activities are 100% effective if done by themselves.  However if you do they all routinely and methodically, your results should improve.

Good luck.