Some services are priceless. When you have a medical emergency that impacts you or a family member, the price of the service becomes secondary to the results. For less critical health issues you may shop around for the low cost provider, but when it deals with life and death issues, the focus is on results.
So when it comes to recruiting services, why do some employers focus on cost rather than on results? The health of an organization is dependent on its employees. The ability to attract and retain key personnel is a life and death issue for most businesses. Every false start, bad hire, and premature loss of a key employee has a direct and measurable impact on the bottom line (health) of an organization.
Here’s how NPA member firms are delivering positive, measurable results.
- Speed. Every day a key position remains open has a direct cost to your business. With the use of a 350 member network, NPA recruiters can find the best candidates faster than recruiters working without a supporting network and more efficiently than in-house staff working alone to complete searches.
- Knowledge and expertise. NPA recruiters are professionals. They work the markets and niches you are tapping into on a daily basis. They have access to the high-quality candidates that are not on the job boards. Passive candidates are often the top performers most sought after by hiring organizations.
- Confidentiality. Many key position searches are most successfully completed in a private environment. Public postings and advertising create internal stress and tip off competitors to organization direction and strategy.
- Negotiation. NPA recruiters are able to act as effective intermediaries and bring in candidates “pre-sold” on key issues still open to negotiation. This allows employers to interact positively with key employees and avoid having to take an adversarial position while negotiating compensation and benefit packages.
- Global reach. NPA members have experts on six continents waiting to support international searches. Employers who are hiring in a country for the first time cannot match the local knowledge and reach of NPA members.
Add up the opportunity costs associated with an open position. You will see how important the right people in the right positions are to the health of a business. Do the search once, get it right, find a great long-term employeeyou are paying for results and you get what you pay for.