How to find the best man for the job??
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This is not an advert for a job, I am just looking for advice in the future.
OK chances are I will need a new salesman soon at one of our car sales sites. Do I
1 Advertise in the Job centre ? Free
2 Use an agency to find the right person? will cost about £1500 - £2000
3 Local advertising
4 Any other sugestions
We have 4 sales people at the moment the top earner is achieving over £50k a year the lowest earner is doing £25k.
The Vacancy I will have will be in a few weeks, the last person to have this position earned over £50k. And as this is mainly commision based it describes the type of person I need. Another £25k a year earner is no good to me I need a £50k earner.
so any sugestions on recruiting would be great.
C
OK chances are I will need a new salesman soon at one of our car sales sites. Do I
1 Advertise in the Job centre ? Free
2 Use an agency to find the right person? will cost about £1500 - £2000
3 Local advertising
4 Any other sugestions
We have 4 sales people at the moment the top earner is achieving over £50k a year the lowest earner is doing £25k.
The Vacancy I will have will be in a few weeks, the last person to have this position earned over £50k. And as this is mainly commision based it describes the type of person I need. Another £25k a year earner is no good to me I need a £50k earner.
so any sugestions on recruiting would be great.
C
I don't know the ins and outs of your industry but my thoughts are, and these are fairly generic regardless of what professional role you're trying to fill:
- jobcentre is no use if you want an experienced, professional self-starter. These types will be looking for work in more specialised places, none of which are the jobcentre. You would however get loads of unqualified jobseekers idly checking the computers before signing on, seeing £25k, and thinking "I could be a car salesman"
- agency costs you but it also filters out the dross, the chancers who have to prove they've applied for 2 jobs a week to get their benefits, and the lower-end salesmen who won't have the aptitude or aspiration to be another £50k earner
- local paper will be a halfway house in that fewer timewasters will apply but you will still get a lot of unsuitable candidates - plus your field of candidates is limited to a small catchment area. At the moment a serious candidate who wants to earn £50k p.a. is likely to be prepared to consider relocation IMO, so spread the net wide as you can.
I really would go for the agency. I have a feeling the money will be worth paying. Would you rather receive 7 good applications and select 4 for interview, or 240 CVs through the door which you need to sift for wheat from chaff?
The agency will do the hard work and present you with good candidates. Must be worth a fair bit in saved time, admin, grief and the risk of one slipping through the net.
Spoken as:
a) someone who'd kill for the chance to earn £50k at the moment and is prepared to relocate for 60% of that income
b) someone who's not a fan of agents as I'm on the other end at the mo, relying on them to call when they commit to etc
Just my ramblings, hope there's something useful there.
- jobcentre is no use if you want an experienced, professional self-starter. These types will be looking for work in more specialised places, none of which are the jobcentre. You would however get loads of unqualified jobseekers idly checking the computers before signing on, seeing £25k, and thinking "I could be a car salesman"
- agency costs you but it also filters out the dross, the chancers who have to prove they've applied for 2 jobs a week to get their benefits, and the lower-end salesmen who won't have the aptitude or aspiration to be another £50k earner
- local paper will be a halfway house in that fewer timewasters will apply but you will still get a lot of unsuitable candidates - plus your field of candidates is limited to a small catchment area. At the moment a serious candidate who wants to earn £50k p.a. is likely to be prepared to consider relocation IMO, so spread the net wide as you can.
I really would go for the agency. I have a feeling the money will be worth paying. Would you rather receive 7 good applications and select 4 for interview, or 240 CVs through the door which you need to sift for wheat from chaff?
The agency will do the hard work and present you with good candidates. Must be worth a fair bit in saved time, admin, grief and the risk of one slipping through the net.
Spoken as:
a) someone who'd kill for the chance to earn £50k at the moment and is prepared to relocate for 60% of that income
b) someone who's not a fan of agents as I'm on the other end at the mo, relying on them to call when they commit to etc
Just my ramblings, hope there's something useful there.
Cheers for the input. Having recentley put a job in the job centre for an unskilled job I can certainly see that trying to find a top earner would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. I think the agency is the way to go, after all if we get the right man he will soon pay back the cost of any agency charges.
C
C
There's plenty of top earners in jobcentres at the moment, but they won't be looking on the jobcentrePlus (!) system for work, is all.
They'll be mainly looking at jobsite, monster, and any industry-specific publications / websites. That's definitely where you need to be if you want a selection of good candidates - how you get yourself on there is another matter.
If agencies do a no placement, no fee type arrangement, go to a couple of them. It never hurts to get twice the coverage for the same effort, and one agent's job description might snag some that another's might miss.
They'll be mainly looking at jobsite, monster, and any industry-specific publications / websites. That's definitely where you need to be if you want a selection of good candidates - how you get yourself on there is another matter.
If agencies do a no placement, no fee type arrangement, go to a couple of them. It never hurts to get twice the coverage for the same effort, and one agent's job description might snag some that another's might miss.
I've just done a big recruitment campaign for a new team of car sales execs. Out of Job Centres, Automotive Recruitment Agency, Magazines (trade specialist types and generic buy-in-petrol-station types), local and national press, and online (generic and automotive-specific), the best response rate and quality of candidates actually came frrom reed.co.uk... Still can't get over that one...
Definately not the Job Centre.
We have been recruiting recently down here in the South West for a new Account Executive and apparently despite the recession and higher unemployment rates we were not inundated with candidates of quality. We always use specialist recruitment companies.
We have been recruiting recently down here in the South West for a new Account Executive and apparently despite the recession and higher unemployment rates we were not inundated with candidates of quality. We always use specialist recruitment companies.
Edited by CatherineJ on Saturday 26th September 09:56
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