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Our industry knowledge is your greatest strategic advantage. While your competitors are struggling using cheap generic recruiters to staff their organizations, we will have already recruited the best to your firm.
We understand the value and importance of our industry focus. This means you will be working with someone who intuitively UNDERSTANDS your business and needs.
Comparative Methodologies
Cheap Generic Recruiter
- Job is released
- Recruiter sends 100 resumes found on job boards by keyword search
- You review and eliminate most of the resumes, tell recruiter which 10 you want.
- Recruiter attempts first contact with candidates
- 8 of the 10 are no longer available; one has no interest in this opportunity
- Interview is set up for the one available candidate
- Interviewed candidate is either not a fit, to expensive, won't relocate, doesn't accept the offer or worse, accepts the offer and THEN you uncover a criminal or other negative history.
- Meanwhile recruiter reposts job boards, repeating the above process until filled
Job Board
- Job is released, posted on Job Board
- 300's of resumes submitted
- You review, scanning by keyword and eliminate most of the resumes
- You attempt contact with the 10 you want
- You discover 8 of the 10 are no longer available and one has no interest in this opportunity
- Interview set up for the one available candidate
- Interviewed candidate is either not a fit, to expensive, won't relocate, doesn't accept the offer or worse, accepts the offer and THEN you uncover a criminal or other negative history.
- Repeating the above process until filled
SSC Methodology
- Job is released to SSC
- You Interview 1-3 Top Candidates SSC has surfaced, screened and qualified to accept the offer, all three in the salary range, will relo, and interested in your job.
- Hire the top candidate and the second best even though you didn't have a position because he/she is so good.
- Repeat the above process every time you have an opening over the next decade.
Customized Expert Component Levels (Unbundled Services)
Sometimes you don't need a full search; you just need to outsource one of the expert components of SSC's arsenal. These services can be on a cost plus or project basis for large and small projects.
Targeting/Recruiting
Getting the right people in the interviewing process is the largest challenge. Sometimes a client just needs the right people to show up at the door. For example a national retailer wanted to interview the competitive store managers in each mall in each city of presence. The task was to recruit/deliver those managers to the client store without any qualification. Screening
The screening process is the biggest "pain in the arse " of the recruiting process, but one of the most important. With hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of electronic resumes coming in from a variety of sources, only those with deep industry knowledge can review and ascertain candidates with "hidden parallel qualifications" not obvious to a first level admin reviewer or search word software. In other words, the perfect candidate to be hired might get eliminated because the right "keyword" is not on the resume.
For example in the Edoc world, the client needs a candidate expert in "Metacode". A software or admin screener would eliminate a candidate expert in DJDE projects because the keyword "Metacode" was not on the resume. Unbeknownst to the software or the lower level admin screener, DJDE is a primary expert level component Metacode. An industry expert would immediately recognize this fact and further consider a candidate. SSC's thorough screening processes can help guarantee the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater, and only those candidates with the full required background and skill set get considered.
This process can be established with a seamless electronic flow with your existing electronic systems. Interviewing
Gone are the days of hiring by instinct. By the time you make a decision to hire or not, you had better know what you are getting into. Many interviewers merely conduct chronological interviews based on the candidates resume. SSC recommends and uses Behavior Based Interviewing to uncover what the candidate really is made of. This through interview process results in recommendations to move forward with a candidate or not. The ultimate decision though is always yours to make. Backchannel/Reference Checks
We all make a pathway in our business lives. Because of our industry expertise SSC can go back on this pathway to ascertain what kind of employee a candidate really is. While we don't know everybody in the industry, chances are we know someone that knows everybody. This is SSC single strongest advantage and expertise. We use this skill in assessing the candidate's potential BEFORE we take steps to recruit the candidate. If everyone we talk to that a person has worked with in the previous three jobs thinks a candidate is an A player, you have yourself an A player.
Reference Checks have become very tricky. Even the worst employee can usually find three people to say nice things. SSC's expertise with reference checks can uncover the hidden secrets that should weigh on a decision to or not to hire. Here too we will make recommendations to move forward or not, but the ultimate decision is always yours to make.
Complete Candidate Background Check
Depending on the level of the position or level of security, SSC can provide additional Background services including Credit Checks, Driving and Criminal History Records, Public Records, Social Security or Degree Verification, testing services and more. SSC can offer you this package for all of your hires, no matter the source.
Vendor On Premises (Process Management)
Sometimes companies need additional resources to manage one or more components of a project. SSC can place one or more of our employees on your premises to help you manage the process. A quick and effective solution for most time based or short term skill based projects.
Recruiting Production Management (Consulting and Execution)
Recruiting is the single most important aspect of a company's growth and profitability. You cannot do anything if you don't have the right people to do it. And the better the employee is in a position, the more you will get out of the position.
How does your company come across to a potential employee? SSC's expertise can help a company uncover your strengths and weaknesses company wide (Secret Shopper Analysis), propose a plan to strengthen the weaknesses, or even design and produce a Recruiting Video showcasing your companies strengths for deployment in-house and/or on your company website.
Whatever the need in the recruiting arena, in whole or in part, SSC can help you get where you need to go.
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