The Benefits of Working with Recruiters When Looking For Candidates

Your first instinct may be to go it alone when you are looking for new employees, but just as running your hotel or restaurant is your specialty, finding great new candidates is where your recruiter is the expert. Select a recruiter who focuses on your industry, and you can trust him to find the right people.

Why Use a Recruiter?

Access to Passive Candidates
 Recruiters’ bread and butter is knowing where people are working and how to reach them when you need to fill job openings. Chances are, your recruiting efforts are limited to posting an advertisement and responding to the candidates who reply. Recruiters can take a more proactive approach by reaching out to the talent network they have built over many years.

Rely on a Trusted Advisor
Building a relationship with a recruiter means you will always have someone you can bounce ideas off. A recruiter can tell you how the market looks, what compensation competitors are offering, what skill sets have led to success for others in your industry. Your experience is limited to your own business, but your recruiter will know what strategies are working for others.

Spend Less Time on Unsuitable Candidates
Recruiting can be a crapshoot. You may advertise an opening for an executive chef for a fine dining establishment and get a hundred resumes from people with fast-food experience or who really like cooking at home.  Somewhere in that stack of resumes you may find three resumes worth reading. Why waste your time when a recruiter can do the legwork for you.

Recruiters Interview People All Day, Every Day
They can see through nonsense answers, ask follow-up questions for clarification, or tease out bits of information the candidate may not even think to offer that could make him a perfect fit for your facility. With a more accurate process, positions are filled faster and stay filled, so you have less turnover.

Remain Focused on Business While the Recruiter Works for You
What do you do while your recruiter is out looking for your next employee? Whatever you want! You handle all of your regular duties while the recruiter is taking care of your search efforts behind the scenes. He’ll advertise, attract, screen and interview candidates. You won’t even need to step back into the process until he has a handful of candidates he has chosen for you.

Need more ideas to improve your hiring process and avoid bad hires? Contact the hotel and restaurant recruiting experts at Horizon Hospitality. We can help you hire more effectively to find and keep the best people.

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