Flat fee or Fixed Fee recruitment models are now more widely accepted as a method of recruiting candidates the world over. A large number of corporate companies are discovering this method and the advantages that it offers over the more traditional recruitment techniques.

The company pays a recruiter that offers this type of service to full fill their recruitment needs. The major benefits companies are realising is the low cost this method has appose to the more traditional models, the reason for this is Flat fee / fixed fee recruitment packages omit the additional cost recruitment agencies charge for services such as pre screening, interview arranging and acceptance negotiations.

Al though there are additional ‘add on' services  that can be utilised as part of the flat fee / fixed fee model, the one that is most widely used is the basic advertising model . This type of fixed fee model includes advertising  to a selection of the major most candidate trafficked job boards for up to 1 month. The flat fee ‘fee' is charged before the advertising assignment starts and some recruiters offer guarantees that if a required number of CV's aren't produced or the vacancy isn't filled they will re-advertise the position.

For companies looking to get a more enhanced service there are options to have the response ‘sifted' by consultants to give companies the best selection of CV's that have been received. (please note that this type of service requires the input from a recruitment consultant and will cost considerably more than the basic fixed fee advertising service). This is the point where the internal HR department takes over to shortlist candidates from the CV's received and arrange interviews.

Flat fee recruitment / Fixed Fee recruitment is quickly gaining popularity quite simply because it is considered the most cost effective way to attract talent from the available talent pool of active jobseekers. Flat fee / Fixed Fee recruitment is a new type of recruitment method companies use to generate candidate traffic to vacancies. The best flat fee /fixed fee models include job board postings to generic, niche and geographical job boards and must include at least 3 of the major job boards. And the enhanced fixed fee / flat fee service retains the service of a recruiter to manually sift candidates filtering the wheat from the chafe.

Some Flat fee / fixed fee recruitment companies are now using advanced recruiting platforms such as recruitersite the ‘all in one job post' that has applicant tracking systems and multipost included, which makes the service even more cost effective and easier to cost out to clients.

Flat fee / fixed fee recruitment along with recruitersite is an excellent match for recruiters due to its transparent recruitment model from start to finish and is quickly becoming the preferred recruitment process by employers the world over.

Todays Recruiting Blog is Thanks to Mark Jones FIRP