Retained Recruitment Services

Are you inundated with Agencies wanting to work with you? Under pressure to get more value for money from a shrinking recruitment budget?

In the Third Sector, perhaps more than any other, matching best practice in recruitment with best value can be a tough challenge. Many organisations are getting swamped by jobseekers and suppliers competing for the attention of a small and over stretched HR department.

Charity People can help. We provide a range of RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) services from simply co-ordinating the recruitment agency liaison, recruitment advertising and communications processes to a full blown RPO offering with a highly experienced recruitment team on or off site.

Our Retained Recruitment Service is aimed at small and medium sized NFPs looking to improve on their recruitment spend and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their recruitment process.

The starting point is an audit of current and recent recruitment spend and methodologies to analyse and identify potential cost savings and efficiencies.

A dedicated Account Team will work on all vacancies, handling all internal and external candidates, develop advertising and employer brand strategies, liaise with Recruitment Consultancies on the PSL and co-ordinate the entire recruitment process for every vacancy, including all temporary staff requirements.

For more information about our retained recruitment services call us on 020 7939 7439 or email us.

The Retained Recruitment Service includes the following:

• Candidate Sourcing using the Charity People candidate register, sector specialist
• Jobs boards, social media, professional networking sites and traditional media
• Job Application management – internal and external
• Job description / person specification review and revision
• Screening and testing of candidates, using a comprehensive range of assessment techniques
• Interview co-ordination and management
• Offers of employment
• Management of recruitment consultancies via a Preferred Supplier List (PSL)
• Management Information and Process Administration
• Candidate tracking
• Consolidated invoicing
• Bespoke recruitment management technology and reporting
• Job website management and design (online)

RRS Benefits

• A significantly increased volume of direct applications direct (not via an agency)
• Cost savings – through establishing benchmarks in the audit for recruitment cost
• per head, a pricing structure is developed to achieve significant cost savings
• Access to industry leading recruitment technology solutions
• One central point of contact for all recruitment that frees up the HR team from a
• Significant amount of agency liaison and administration

Charging Structure

Generally, Charity People is incentivised to increase your number of direct hires and reduce your overall recruitment costs by reducing reliance on agencies/suppliers.

Through your dedicated Account Team, we aim to achieve this cost reduction in a number of ways, for example:

• Increasing direct hires, and reducing reliance on agencies, via direct, internal and employee referrals
• Negotiating more competitive agency rates and managing preferred supplier lists
• Reducing internal administration and the time hiring managers spend on recruitment
• Ensuring you only see pre-screened, fully interviewed and briefed candidates
• Introducing NI efficiency schemes for low paid staff
• Consolidated invoicing
• A simple monthly retained fee agreed in advance and a significantly reduced placement fee for appointments made, that means you:
• save money on your annual recruitment budget,
• save time on the processes, and
• deliver a better service to your line managers

For more information about our retained recruitment services call us on 020 7939 7439 or email us.