Targeting Recruitment Talent

Reflecting the market is still gripped in a talent short environment with good recruiters hard to find, Norris & Partners have expanded their services to focus more on executive search and selection and retained assignments.

They have been surprised at the number of clients who have approached them requesting to engage their services on a retained basis, or to perform executive search assignments for them.

Lisa Norris shares, ìFrom my own personal experience when hiring recruitment professionals, it does not seem to be a practice that other rec to rec agencies can undertake as they tend to service too many clients. We are more than happy, even in this talent tight market, to work with clients exclusively to search for their recruitment talentî.

In a talent short market, communication is the key between the agency, client and candidate; any delay can see the relationship breakdown, especially with good candidates who have an immediate selection of career choices available to them.

ìWorking with clients who chose to retain our services, we notice the level of communication and involvement with the client and candidate is much higher, resulting in a positive outcome over a shorter period of timeî concludes Stevie Rose.