Employers

Using a Recruiting Firm vs. Hiring an In-House Recruiter

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Henry Goldbeck, of Goldbeck Recruiting. Goldbeck Recruiting is a recruitment and executive search firm located in Vancouver, BC. As true employment consultants, they bridge industry expertise and headhunting excellence with human resource support throughout the hiring process to improve the success of a new recruit.

Since 1997, they have filled challenging positions in industries and expertise areas like sales, engineering, biotech, accounting & finance, manufacturing & operations and the non profit sector.

Each option has specific advantages and disadvantages. Which is right for your company?

Engaging a hiring process for a company of any size can be stressful. Especially for roles in specialized or highly competitive industries, or, say, pandemic economies, hiring teams and processes can encounter challenges which keep vital roles empty. For these reasons, a company’s hiring strategy is very important to the bottom lines of cost and efficiency; this is why some firms will opt to hire recruiting agencies, and others will rely on in-house recruiters. Read the rest of this entry »


Benefits of Using an Internationally Networked Recruitment Firm

by Sarah Freiburger

Our Expertise:

Our firm is backed by nearly 1,500 recruiters who are specialists in their industry, who have placed those exact candidate roles time and time again. Our network gives us the edge when learning and  understanding your company’s unique requirements and enables us to match the right specialist with your distinctive needs. Our recruiters work many sub–specialties within each specific niche, and place over 50,000 executive level candidates annually.  Read the rest of this entry »


Post Lockdown: 10 Tips for Recruitment Leaders

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Don Leon, managing partner of Donald Leon Search, who has been recruiting for over twenty years. Having worked in New York City for a small boutique search firm as well as a top ten global firm, Don has partnered closely with digital technology, data and content companies for most of his career. He is actively involved in representing and recruiting for a variety of technology-related verticals and founded his own executive search firm four years ago. Don joined NPAworldwide in 2018.

As we begin to move out of our quarantined work environments and get back to some level of normalcy, it is important to consider these 10 factors as we move forward. Read the rest of this entry »


10 Reasons Why Our Recruitment Firm Will Deliver Results

by Sarah Freiburger

Our network, NPAworldwide, offers the prestige recruitment firms that belong a number of unique characteristics that define each one as a leading specialist recruitment agency.

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The Need for Business Continuity Planning to Make It Through a Pandemic

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Art Boyle, VP of Risk Management, and Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) of People 2.0’s Global Search and Recruiting Support Division. People 2.0 is a is a global provider of employer of record, agent of record,  and back-office services for recruiting and staffing firms. People 2.0 is an NPAworldwide Endorsed Program.

“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” —Winston Churchill

Having helped organizations develop business resiliency and continuity strategies for many years, I can attest to the importance of creating a business continuity plan (BCP). A well-developed BCP can help ensure your company continues to operate near normal during times of crisis. Read the rest of this entry »


Navigating Remote Talent Acquisition

by Sarah Freiburger

It is no secret that in past years recruitment technology trends were changing how traditional HR processes were being conducted. Prior to the pandemic however, they were primarily a way to enable the final decisions in hiring rather than being the only way to decide.

While employers need to understand especially now in an ever-tightening market retention is key, adoption of technology is essential not only for current companies navigating a work from home landscape, but a hiring from home landscape also has entered the scene. Read the rest of this entry »


No Work Life Balance, The New Normal?

by Liz Carey

It truly is an unprecedented time – never before have so many companies been forced to drastically change their operations in the span of just a few weeks. Most companies, whether or not they already had work-from-home employees, had to transition to a fully remote operation.

When the world opens back up after the Covid-19 pandemic, what will the “new normal” look like? Will the work-from-home experiment continue? Many companies, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Square, have already extended remote work through the end of the year and/or indefinitely. Read the rest of this entry »


HR Best Practices in a COVID-19 Working Environment

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Ed McConnell with HUB International, discussing best practices for HR departments during the coronavirus pandemic. HUB International provides a wide range of business and personal insurance options including liability, health, life, and more.

COVID-19 has quickly become a malady of its own for human resources departments, as employers across the U.S. struggle to make sense of new HR and employment practices liability (EPL) issues.

In the wake of the pandemic which has affected more Americans than any other country to date, employee benefits (EB), pay continuation, employee medical information confidentiality, Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, layoffs, furloughs and more are a concern for just about every industry. We have provided some HR department coronavirus considerations in this new, ever-evolving world. Read the rest of this entry »


Company Culture: Hiring and Onboarding During a Pandemic

by Dave Nerz

Our recruitment network just completed a survey of our global recruiters regarding trends during these days of the COVID-19 pandemic. What we found is that there is still hiring activity out there, but much reduced from more normal times. Some of this reduction in activity allows recruiters and employers the time needed to hire, onboard, and showcase company culture in a completely new way.

So during a pandemic, the dinner meetings, lunches with prospective new hires and even the basic face-to-face meeting preceded by a solid handshake are things of the past. Good candidates and good matches for open positions are still out there, but the process to find and attract this talent needs some updating. Read the rest of this entry »


As A Small Business, Should I Hire a Recruitment Agency?

by Sarah Freiburger

These past few months have likely impacted your small business in one way or another. Many businesses experienced some level of layoffs or employee changes and as they look to find a new normal and anticipate what is to come, it might seem that hiring a recruitment agency to fill vacancies is an expense you should cut.

Smaller employers often think the following in regard to hiring:

  • You should search for candidates yourself
  • Working with recruiters is a waste of time
  • Reviewing resumes for the “right candidate” should be done by yourself as you know best who to interview, and
  • Hiring a recruiter is too expensive for a small budget.

However, the reality is when you speak with a small employer who has successfully used a recruitment agency, the comment you most often hear is that they cannot believe they had spent so much time and energy trying to find the “right candidate” even though they thought they had been saavy by using a variety of ways including placing ads on large and specialized job boards.

What many do not understand is that if you first try a recruitment agency on a contingent basis, you would only pay the recruiter if you hired candidate presented by the recruiter. BAM! All of that time and frustration spent trying to learn HOW to recruit a candidate for your company is returned to you as the professional takes over.

Our member’s clients comment that by using a recruitment agency they:

  • Filled the position faster.
  • Spent less money considering the overall cost of hiring which included the cost of their time to search for candidates.
  • Had the “right candidate” for the position delivered to them.

Bottom line: If you have not yet tried to use an independent recruitment agency, these next few months would be the time to find one that can help you come out stronger.


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