The advantages of outsourcing the recruitment of local staff to a third-party company

[Woody Campbell]

Modern business requires specialised, professional staff, with high levels of responsibility and particular expertise in certain fields. It demands access to ongoing professional development that deepens employees' knowledge, as most people today live in a very fast-changing environment. For this reason, when it comes to finding the right people for the right job it is crucial to go through each individual phase of the hiring process, such as planning, recruitment and the selection of employees.

The recruitment phase consists of the implementation of certain methods and strategies used by a company to find applicants for employment. This means searching for potential employees using internal and external sources, screening and shortlisting the received applications on the basis of the candidates' eligibility and suitability and having potential employees evaluated by professional recruiters.

The methods and strategies to be used must be valid and appropriate in order to ensure an effective recruitment process. Consequently, there are certain resources that are necessary for carrying out this process. The most important thing is to delegate the task to competent HR and recruitment professionals, who will be able to evaluate whether a candidate has the right skills and credentials to succeed in the job. They must also know where to look for the right candidates for job vacancies and understand how to attract both suitable and unsuitable candidates.

This means that recruiters should be able to understand the market and therefore know what an appropriate candidate looks like. For this reason, the best choice for an international company is to hire local professionals who are familiar with the market and can easily identify the right candidates for the vacancies it is offering.

Local recruitment companies usually have background knowledge of the range of local employees available. Operating as separate business entities, third-party companies free up the client company's managers, chief executives and other employees from having to carry out additional work at the expense of their regular roles and daily responsibilities. As the best results come from focusing on one thing with full capacity, it is likely that a professional third-party company will attract the best talent more successfully than the company's senior employees.

Now that outsourcing has become one option on a larger menu of hiring strategies, some companies use it to gain time and ensure a more responsive approach to customer needs. Local external service providers can be a great help to in-house staff, mainly because of the time saved on managing and implementing the recruitment process.

Local recruitment companies can provide more engaging and convenient recruitment processes by following up with the candidates, understanding the position sought and accelerating the hiring procedures. Because of their existing background knowledge, there is no need to educate or provide specific training for staff in order to prepare them for such a responsible task — one with long-term consequences for the company. Local recruiters are also likely to avoid the common pitfalls of the recruitment process.

Local recruiters can easily find a common language with potential candidates in the local labour market, find an easy way to reach out to and engage with them and help the company stay in touch and follow up with them by keeping them updated throughout the recruitment process. This will make the recruitment process more effective, methodical and organised — in other words, smooth and personalised in terms of the approaches used — resulting in the selection of employees who will make the most of their jobs in the future.