4 Reasons To Change Your Perception On Resourcers
There’s a common career path in recruitment. Whether an apprentice, graduate or career-changer, new staff often start out as resourcers. The resourcers role is varied including candidate sourcing, interviewing, candidate management, CRM database maintenance and general administration and QA compliance.
As any recruitment consultant knows, they are only as good as the candidates they can supply. Resourcing is a professional, highly skilled job, and should be seen as a career in itself, and not automatically as a stepping stone to becoming a recruitment consultant. Changing this perception can transform your company, making it much more effective and better placed to take on and overcome its competition. Here are our three reasons why your resourcers are crucial to your recruiting team, and should be treated as such.
They’re not reliant on commission
Some resourcers may be on a small percentage of successful placements, but by and large, they are not largely reliant on commission as recruitment consultants are. There can be times where even the most experienced consultant can get excited when a high paying placement is about to be made, and their judgement can be clouded by the money that they’re going to make. Resourcers can often provide a clear, unbiased view and prevent mistakes being made.
They’re better than your candidate management system
Your resourcer is probably in charge of your candidate management system, but in the fast paced world of recruitment, your resourcer will probably be able to come up with a quick list of suitable candidates off the top of their head. Good, long-term resourcers have an encyclopaedic knowledge of their candidates, and when that difficult to fill job comes in, they should be your first point of call. This experience can be crucial. If the resourcers role is filled by a succession of would-be consultants, you lose this valuable resource.
They let consultants get on with what they are best at
In some companies, there is far too much crossover between the roles of consultant and resourcer. If there is not a settled, experienced and trusted resourcer in place, you can often find that a lack of trust between consultant and resourcer can develop.
As we said earlier, consultants are as good as their candidates, and if they don’t have a deep trust for the resourcer, can end up refusing to utilise them. This in turn places extra pressure on the consultant and takes them away from what they do best.
A good resourcer can be the foundation of a successful recruitment consultancy, and someone who each and every consultant can rely on.
Till next time,
Cheryl