Because they give you access to your second biggest asset, your talent. If you ask any CEO today what makes their business successful, they will say their people. In aid of international recruiter’s day last week, we thought we would highlight why using a recruiter, and in particular, Oliver Parks, is a no brainer.

Talent is the greatest commodity in the world today. Your recruiter is your talent broker; they’re the specialists, they know the specialists, they have an elite network, the relationships, the inside market knowledge, and to put it bluntly, without them, you are left picking up the CVS at the bottom of the job board barrel. 

It’s 2022; it’s not just recruiting anymore. It’s public relations. 

Your talent partners are the eyes, ears and biggest advert of your business. They big your company up in one morning against your competition to more people than you could imagine. 

In the age of the great resignation and the war on talent, the rider of an open candidate with the perfect set of skills and experience can create a stalemate that does nothing but burn your valuable time. With such heavy competition, this can be detrimental. If you lose the candidate, the position sits empty (or worse, filled with mediocrity), and opportunities for growth and innovation, particularly in the tech industry, are missed.

A good recruiter already knows your business inside out. They can sell your culture better than you can. They have an invested interest in finding you exceptional people because they quite literally live on their reputation. Why wouldn’t they do everything to deliver?

We don’t just mine the gold; we have spent years harnessing the negotiation skills to get your perfect candidate over the line, manage the counteroffer and get the best deal possible. So you don’t have to.

We hold the market intelligence. 

Imagine someone gave you the key to the door that houses all the information you need to build a strong workforce. At Oliver Parks, we pre-screen candidates within our specialisms every single day; we know all the secrets, why they hate their boss, why they think they’re underpaid, why they don’t want to leave their job, and more importantly, what will it take for them to move. We attend the events so you don’t have to, we get the referrals so you don’t have to. We know exactly who sits next to who in the scale-up tech world and when they will be looking to move on. These are the secrets that you can use to your advantage when building a culture of thriving, happy and motivated individuals.

We have real-life benchmarks on the salaries you should be paying, the locations that harness the best talent, the push and pull factors that are moving with the current and the job titles that get attention. A recruiter can speak the candidate’s language (quite literally at Oliver Parks) when you can’t or and mostly, so you, don’t have to. 

Those are just a few points, working with Oliver Parks allows you an elite opportunity to scale your business with individuals who are the best at what they do. Our consultants have spent an enormous amount of time building their own individual networks. They are trusted, they are respected, and they always deliver.