What are you actually paying for when you work with a recruitment agency?
We hear you. First glance at any recruitment agency fee has most people reeling. One large fee for one single employee. It’s not uncommon for clients to assume they’re buying a the person from us. Let us demystify that most common and most inaccurate misconception for you.
In short, you’re not paying for the person. What you’re really paying for is:
Our finessed skill in recruitment and selection
Access to candidates who aren’t actively job seeking and applying for your roles right now
So why the big fee?
Whilst the placement of a particular candidate is the activity that triggers us to invoice you, you’re not actually ‘purchasing a person’ from us – we aren’t in the business of selling humans after all. You’re paying for an end to end recruitment service. You’re saving yourself hours upon hours of interviewing the wrong people. You’ll be reviewing only candidates who are a top fit and who may not have ever applied for the role had we not approached them about it. You’re not just paying for the hire. You’re paying for all the unseen work that goes into the unsuccessful candidates who have crossed our desks in the journey.
As soon as we receive a role brief from a client, we’re pouring love into:
· Creating and launching our advertising strategy
· Reviewing and providing feedback to applicants
· Conducting a full sweep of our database and LinkedIn to ask talent who is a fit to explore the role with us
· Hosting all formats of interview inclusive of phone screening and zoom interviews
· Benchmarking and shortlisting top talent
· Managing your feedback surrounding the shortlist and coordinating all communications and coordination of interviews and outcomes
· The rejection and or negotiation and acceptance process
· Reference checking and contract support
· Plus post-placement support including monthly check-ins and facilitating our replacement guarantee on the rare occasion that a candidate is unsuccessful
Throughout all of this, we’re representing our own brand and yours in the best light possible by ensuring everything is done with pace, that feedback is given at every stage and that you are regarded as a true employer of choice by the candidates we are working with.
BUT THE SERVICE IS MORE THAN JUST THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS ITSELF. What makes our service truly exciting is the fact that we have a database full of candidates who have created profiles with us because they’re open to hearing about roles. It takes time and energy to build a pipeline of talent (another reason our fees are structured the way that they are) and your role will be presented to the best of the best job seekers in our unique database. Unemployment rates in Australia are low right now and it’s no secret that there aren’t as many quality job seekers actively applying for roles right now. In fact, only 25% of Australians are actually applying for roles. It’s our candidate database that truly makes the magic and proves our fees are all-the-more worth it. 73% of candidates in the current market are not searching or applying for roles but they are open to hearing about roles, making them passive job seekers. That’s a big number of people your advertised roles aren’t reaching. We don’t go straight to SEEK or paid advertisement and simply wait for the candidates to role in. We’re talking to candidates who aren’t looking at your roles and who you wouldn’t have access to if you weren’t one of our clients.
We are an agency who has historically posted minimal ads on SEEK and we have always kept our database tidy and specific to the AU Designer Fashion, Luxury and Beauty market. Our database of circa 5,000 passive job seekers has been curated predominantly through headhunting and through candidates creating their own profiles. Most of our candidates haven’t found us because they applied for a role we advertised. They went to the effort of creating a profile because they like what we’re about and they want US to contact THEM when a role is a good fit. Through our unique approach to marketing and our creative agency DNA, we’ve been able to curate a database full of what we consider the absolute best talent AU fashion has to offer. We know that our database is truly different to all other fashion agencies in the AU market.
So that fee you thought was a hefty cost to ‘purchase one employee’ is in fact money well spent. Our service saves you hours of trawling through resumes and interviewing the wrong people. Let our specialised team of fashion recruiters eliminate the candidates who aren’t a fit. We’ll serve you only the talent that is truly worth an interview and talent who are **arguably** twice as good as that 25% who are actively looking for roles right now.
We promise, our recruitment expertise is worth the investment.