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Human resources are the most useful asset of every organisation. The effective working of any corporation depends to a large extent on the employees appointed at different management levels. The employees have the capacity to get your company to reach new heights of success.

If you are short of resources and looking for the best candidate, be it a hardware technician, researcher, business analyst, sales representative, software developer, or any network administrator, the most effective and fastest way is to contact a recruitment agency that can help you find the desired candidate. These agencies provide recruitment solutions to all major industries such as government, banking, corporate, outsourcing, consulting, finance among many others. The major challenge is to find a reliable placement agency that has expertise to provide effective job solutions in a cost-effective manner.

Some important questions to ask while selecting a placement agency are:

How do they charge?
Placement agencies often charge in one of two ways; a percentage fee or a retainer. The percentage fee is based on the starting salary of the candidate (vary from 8-25 per cent) and is normally payable when the candidate starts working with the company. This is the most common way of charging as one doesn’t have to pay anything to the agency, if they are not able to find any suitable candidate. While retainer fee is agreed at the outset; with a percentage being payable upfront and the rest due when the candidate starts their job.

What is the procedure followed by them for CV selection?
It is necessary to know the selection method followed by these recruitment agencies. Ask the agency how they handle the applications, if they speak to each applicant or not. Also ask them how many CVs they expect to provide you with.

How do they handle applicant referencing?
Reference checks is a prerequisite when hiring any new employee but it can be time consuming. Therefore, before selecting any human resource consultant,human resource consultant, it is worth finding out if they handle references for you. Identity confirmation and speaking to ex-employers on your behalf provide more confidence in the candidates that are supplied.

Have they placed candidates in related roles earlier?
You need to be confident that the agency understands your role and the sort of applications you are looking for. Therefore, it is important to ask whether they have placed candidates in a similar role before. Further, it is better to ask the consultancy to provide examples and if possible, customer testimonials. This will help to ensure that you will get the right candidate according to the job profile.

What happens when employee leaves the organisation?
This is more disheartening when any new employee leaves the organisation after you have paid his hiring fee to a human resource consultant. Most agencies will offer some form of rebate of their fee, if a candidate leaves within a defined time period (usually 12 weeks, in line with a probationary period). The rebate is basically depended upon how long the candidate has been employed.

Quality Recruitment
When it comes to recruiting high quality candidates, ABC consultants (one of the leading placement service provider) offer tailor-made recruitment solutions for your company. They provide complete recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services - from sourcing to technology to recruitment marketing.

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