1. What are Direct Hire / Flat Fee Recruitment?  Part 1

Direct hire / Flat Fee recruiting is a specific type of recruiting that is quickly growing in popularity in the UK Jobs Market. This is simply due to companies that are looking to fill open UK Jobs positions are turning to Direct Hire / Flat Fee Recruiters to proactively advertise and generate candidates for all types of positions from IT through to sales and executive. Direct hire / Flat fee recruitment companies are mostly run by recruitment industry certified professionals that can make the whole flat fee / direct hire process straight forward.  All the processes generally follow the same process, of Advertising, screening and linking candidates to clients offering the job openings.

2. The Direct Hire Flat Fee process explained.

Companies and business owners contact the direct hire / flat fee recruiters, with a brief UK Jobs spec of what kind of candidate they are looking for. The direct hire flat fee consultant will then elaborate on what they are looking for to make sure they have all the details required to compile a comprehensive job specification, the knowledge that the direct hire flat fee consultant has will then enable them to do what is called a job board optimises job spec to make sure that that the clients job opening always finds a prominent position in the search results of the job boards that the direct hire flat fee recruiter places the job onto. The response from the advert is then handled by the direct hire / flat fee company, this is when the sifting takes place, and quite simply this means the consultant will then sort the wheat from the chafe. This is where the more professional and industry savvy the direct hire flat fee recruiter is the better match the client will receive which is of course better value for money. Talking about money the major difference between this type of recruitment and traditional recruitment is that the direct hire flat fee recruitment company charge upfront for the campaign rather than when the company successfully hire the candidate, however all reputable flat fee direct hire companies will offer guarantees that if after the first round of advertising they have not been able to source the right candidate they will then re advertise the job vacancy for a second time make any required changes to the adverts and run the whole campaign again.

3. Long term partnership benefits.

Where possible if business owners and clients strike up a long term relationship with a direct hire / flat fee company there are understandably additional advantages to this kind of relationship. Like in any business relationship the more a service provider knows there clients the better and more effective the service. In the direct hire / flat fee field this simply means that getting to know the politics, desires, structure and hiring processes of the client makes each assignment easier to target and search for. This means the hiring business owner will always have a trusted company with fellow professionals  that is already aware of the needs of the business, to turn to that specializes in selecting good employees for whatever position requires filling.



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