If hiring top talent were easy, every brand could do it. So, if you want to be a brand that does hiring right, you need to leverage the best tools for recruitment. Learn the differences between recruitment agencies and job boards so you can discover exceptional talent in IT, creative, digital marketing, or sales.
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You Want to Hire Fast: Recruitment Agency vs. Job Board
Using a job board can feel a bit like putting out a cattle call for applicants. A single posting can generate streams of responses that you’ll need to weed through. Some of the applicants will be qualified. Many will not. And the extra time you spend buried in unsuitable resumes is like throwing recruitment dollars out the window on a windy day.
A recruitment agency offers a much more streamlined hiring experience. An expert recruiter will only present candidates worth your attention. The result is a highly efficient process that places the right person in the seat faster.
You Want to Hire Right: Recruitment Agency vs. Job Board
If you’re an HR manager or a startup founder, you may not always have the firsthand insights to determine if a candidate is qualified for specialized positions outside your wheelhouse. A job board simply can’t dig into a candidate’s experience to pinpoint if they embody the hard or soft skills that add value to your brand—and that can lead to costly hiring mistakes.
A specialty recruiter understands the qualities that make a candidate a potential rock star. For example, a recruiter with experience in hiring creatives can find the candidate with both artistic vision and the ability to execute that vision so it supports a strategy’s goals.
You Want to Hire Top-Shelf: Recruitment Agency vs. Job Board
Sites like Craigslist are great if you want to sell those Smurf figurines you collected in the 1980s. Not so great if you want to hire your next stand-out marketer. Employers who post on general list job boards are notorious for leaving job postings up long after the post has been filled, which frustrates job seekers, particularly top talent.
What’s more, general list job boards have minimal policing, so job seekers must wade through tons of spam job postings—another factor that drives high-quality candidates away from low-quality job boards.
A specialty recruiter delivers the network and resources to identify the exceptional candidates who avoid online job boards.
You Want to Hire First: Recruitment Agency vs Job Board
Some job listing sites aggregate postings from many different job boards. If you’re recruiting for a high-demand skillset, your company can get lost in the shuffle. Of course, you can pay for sponsored posts so your listing stands out among the herd, but that’s no guarantee you’ll catch the eye of highly qualified applicants before your competition.
When you partner with a recruiting specialist, you’re not stuck creating and paying for an ad that, maybe…hopefully…fingers crossed, the right candidate will notice. Instead, a recruiter personally reaches out to exceptional talent to make a human connection and start a conversation. An experienced recruiter is nothing less than a brand advocate, marketing your business to talent and differentiating you from the competition.
Hire Exceptional
Shyft’s team offers more than 60 collective years of expertise in the recruitment and marketing spaces. Put our network and resources to work so you can make your next exceptional hire.
