Undertake all of the tasks that a recruitment agency does, including sourcing and screening candidates and working with the company’s managers to select candidates for interview.
The client generally elect to engage a contract recruiter who can work on site, so that they can obtain an insider’s view of the company’s corporate culture. Our recruitment consultants are very proactive, able to cultivate and build relationships with different people and can more easily interact with management and staff, meet and greet candidates and undertake initial assessments, and deliver better, and more consistent, service in real time on how the process is progressing.
” Whether the job is intended to last for two months or for a year, contract work is usually not long term unless it gets renewed and eventually transforms into a permanent position.”
As a result, they have more intimate knowledge of the company and indeed the position itself, candidates tend to be more suited to the role and retention rates are strong.
Here are a few examples of the various roles within contract recruiting:
- Sourcing Specialists – to generate potential candidates that can be contacted by the more experienced contract recruiter. Sourcing Specialists use a variety of resources to identify potential candidates such as trade magazines, the Internet, and cold calling companies directly to gain information on their employees. Sourcing Specialists’ main skill is the maintenance of their expansive network.
- Internet Recruiter – An Internet Recruiter searches resume databases for skill sets that match the job requirements of their clients, posts job descriptions that create awareness among job seekers and gives candidate a human interface between the ‘net and the employer.
- Contingency Recruiter – otherwise known as a headhunter – a skillful Contingency Recruiters receive payment only when they place a candidate.