Permanent placement
"Getting hold of the right people in the right place is the most important success factor. It's getting more and more difficult to find the right skills."Tom Johnstone, MD of ball-bearing giant SKF, one of 1,130 respondents in the IBM Global CEO Study 2008
Recruiting new employees is an incredibly important task. It is also a resource-intensive task - it takes time to find, select and assess suitable candidates.
At Poolia, we have specialised in finding and assessing candidates within our six occupational segments since 1989. Our permanent consultants search for, select and interview suitable candidates, after which the most relevant individuals are presented to the client.
For us, it is important to offer flexible solutions based on your company's specific situation. You can therefore choose between buying the full permanent placement process from beginning to end, or if preferred in sub-elements, e.g. interviews. You can also hire the candidate for a period before you decide whether to offer employment, a so-called "Temp to Perm" solution.
We look forward to welcoming you to Poolia when you need to recruit new employees!
1) Job specification based on needs analysis
The permanent placement process starts with a meeting between Poolia's permanent consultants and the client to discuss the position to be filled. The permanent consultant assesses the company's long-term needs and the expertise required for the position in question. He or she also familiarises themseves with the client company's values and culture, in order to guarantee that the candidates presented will fit in at the workplace. The client and the permanent consultant then agree on a job specification for the position.
2) Candidate search
Finding candidates can take place in different ways, depending on the kind of position to be filled and the expertise being sought. For some positions, there may be thousands of suitable candidates, while for others there may only be a dozen or so in the whole country. We know which methods produce the best results for each assignment: searches in our candidate database and in our personal networks, advertising on the Internet and in the print media, or a combination of these.
3) Managing applications
Poolia takes care of all administration that arises in connection with the permanent placement, which can be quite a major task when hundreds of people are applying for the same job. For example, all candidates may need to be sent a letter to confirm that their application has been received, we reply to questions from candidates, obtain certificates and references, and inform candidates that they have been unsuccessful once the assignment has been completed.
4) Selection and evaluation
Using the job specification as a basis, the selection process starts with interviews, various tests and (if agreed) obtaining references.
5) Presentation of candidates
The permanent consultant presents the best-qualified and most suitable candidates to the client, who then meets the candidates in person. All candidates presented are carefully tested and selected.
6) Conclusion and evaluation
Once the client and the candidate have reached an agreement and the position is filled, we like to conduct an evaluation with both the client and the candidate. The evaluations are an important element of our process of continuous improvement, and Poolia receives consistently high ratings in these evaluations.
7) Follow-up
When the new employee has been working for a while and settled into his or her new job, we contact both the client and the new employee for a review. Have expectations been fulfilled? Did the job specification correspond with the actual situation at work?
Increasing the speed of recruitment
According to Tomas, for a company of this size it is virtually essential to collaborate with a recruitment company. The difficult balance to strike involves finding the right person with the right expertise, while at the same time acting quickly enough.
"I believe that you should go with that initial gut feeling. Our partnership with Poolia means that the formal side is already taken care of. The recruiter knows exactly what kind of employee we want and has already screened out all applicants who don't have the right competence. So, when we meet candidates it's mainly a question of whether we'll be comfortable working together with the individual. We have to make a quick decision, and not spend too long deliberating," says Tomas.
In a small company like Effekt, the personal chemistry is important. Tomas Jakobsson has focused on good, thorough preparatory work together with Poolia's permanent placement consultant in order to generate the ideal candidates.
"Poolia has a good idea of what we're looking for and what we expect. We then meet a few people and see whether they fit in with the team at the workplace. But we have to make a quick decision, as otherwise it turns into a scramble for the candidates."
Tomas Jakobsson believes that Effekt has done the right thing and been successful with its recruitments.
"It would take a very long time if I was the one who had to sift through all of the applications," he says.
Extract from CV magazine. Text Gunilla Kruse, photo Johan Adelgren.
Guarantees
We understand that when our client's recruit a permanent member of staff they justifiably expect that individual to stay in employment with them for quite some time. We invest a lot of time and effort in finding you the perfect candidate and are so confident in the service we provide that we will offer a 100% guarantee across the first 13 weeks on all permanent and contract positions*.
So if you are looking to recruit staff and would like more information on our 100% rebate guarantee please call 0845 680 1000 to speak to one of our specialist consultants.
*Terms and conditions apply to our 100% rebate guarantee
