The Hiring Manager’s Guide to Choosing a Recruitment Agency

1. Identify Your Needs

To ensure that your partnership with a recruitment agency is everything you need it to be, it’s important to be clear on what you need from your new employee. This includes being realistic and clear on:

• • Desired skills

• • Culture

• • Urgency

• • Length of contract/hire (i.e permanent, temporary, etc.)

• • Budget

This will help your recruiter refine their search when they are looking for the right person for the job. Being realistic about these requirements helps build a partnership where your recruiter can also inform you on what is appropriate for the current market.

2. Evaluate Your Need For Specialisation

When you choose to partner with a recruitment agency, you expect them to be experts in the market and current talent searches. Specialisation will look different for each industry. For instance, do you require a recruitment partner with local knowledge or national reach? An agency that understands the wider Australian market will generally be more supportive when it comes to honing their search to your specific area, as they recognise market trends.

Generalist recruitment partners work differently from specialist recruitment partners. Where specific skillsets are required for hard-to-fill roles, a specialist recruiter will accurately refine their search to source the best talent. Agencies will have access to passive candidates, which expands your access to top talent that you wouldn’t find on the job boards.

3. Agency Process and Approach

To ensure that your partnership is beneficial for your hiring process, you’ll want to consider:

• • The vetting process: Does your recruitment agency just take resumes at face value, or do they perform in-depth screening and checks before recommending them to you?

• • Transparency: A recruitment agency that is honest about its search and provides you with regular updates ensures that your partnership is collaborative and useful for both parties.

• • Technology and approach: What is different about their approach? Do they use modern tools to source candidates that are tailored to your search?

4. Questions You Can Ask

To ensure that you’re making the right choice when you choose a recruitment agency, there are questions you can ask to determine whether it’s a good match. For example:

• • What is your fill rate for this specific role?

• • What is your replacement policy?

• • How will you represent my company on the market?

These will help build your confidence in the recruitment agency and your partnership moving forward, as they set clear expectations and direction for the hiring process.

How To Get Started

Building trust is important for every recruitment agency partnership. That’s why we won’t just go out to market without being clear on your expectations first. At ITG, we’ll conduct a briefing session with you first to understand your expectations, requirements and needs. This will help us refine our search and ensure that we source the best talent available on the market for you.

Our work is strengthened even further by your collaboration. So, we value feedback and discussion when it comes to the hiring process. For instance, if a candidate wasn’t the right match, tell us why. We’ll hone our search even more.

We’ll keep you updated so you’re clear on the next steps, every step of the way.

Know The Difference With ITG

Want to know how an excellent recruitment agency works? Reach out to ITG. As a real estate recruitment agency, we understand both employers’ unique requirements and candidates’ aspirations. We leverage our expertise and extensive network to deliver precisely selected candidates who are highly skilled and perfectly aligned with your organisation’s culture. You can trust us to find you ideal talent that drives success in your business and exceeds your expectations.

Start your journey with us and contact our team.