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We Are Experts
You have a business to run, and that is where you want to be investing your time and financial resources. While all companies have human resource needs, even your HR Department can be better utilized if they are not bogged down with scouring thousands of resumes to find one or two that might meet the needs of the company. In short, your business is what you do best and a corporate recruiter in general, and ISM in particular, can save you time and money doing what we do best…finding the right people to move your company forward.
Ultimately, the most knowledgeable people about the employment marketplace are professional recruiters. In addition to headhunting, your director of human resources and their staff must be concerned with everything from legal personnel concerns to corporate training, meaning that they cannot invest all of their time in finding the right people to develop your business. Furthermore, as “insiders” in your company, these corporate employees are privy to the internal politics, meaning they can bring their own biases to the recruiting table. By hiring a professional recruiter, you free your staff to manage tasks that are critical to the smooth execution of company business and sidestep any biases that your HR team may have when finding the right people to grow your bottom line.
We Use Lenses and Filters Like Expert Photographers
Expert photographers’ pictures stand out from those of us whose pictures are just nice. This is because expert photographers know how to use the right combination of lenses and filters to take the best shots. Effectively, they know to look deep (through a zoom lens), wide (through a wide-angle lens), and what kind of filter to use based on the circumstances in which they are taking their photos.
ISM thinks about recruiting through the lens of an expert photographer. We know how to look wide, and look beyond the standard sources to find great people. We know how to look deep, and zoom in on characteristics that are key to the position, based on our clients’ needs. Above all, we know what filter to use to put well-qualified prospects in front of our clients. In fact, our clients say that they hire candidates from ISM because they can count on our having pre-qualified candidates they interview, and they know that talking to one of our candidates will be worth their time.
We Take on the Costs of Recruiting - So You Don't Have To
Recruiting is costly. Many believe that the cost of recruiting a new hire stops at the money invested in Internet ads or similar job postings. This is a dangerously narrow perception, costly in and of itself. In fact, finding the right person can be extremely expensive, and include the following “hidden costs”:
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Salaries and benefits of the employment/recruiting staff, plus those of the line managers involved in the hiring activity (who are not productive in their normal job pursuits when they’re out recruiting)
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Travel, lodging and entertainment expenses of in-house recruiters and source development costs
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Overhead expenses including (but not limited to) telephone, office space, postage, PR literature, applicant database maintenance, website costs, reference checks and clerical costs to correspond with the hundreds of unqualified respondents and more
Even the costs outlined here represent a “best case scenario”. These costs assume that your company hires the perfect person to fill a position. These costs do not begin to account for the expense of hiring the wrong person. Recruiting is expensive because it entails numerous hidden costs and is an imperfect science of finding the perfect person for a position. ISM has the expertise and insight to find the right person and take this cost out of your hands. Let us do our job so you can do yours better.
We Are An Objective Third-Party With a Commitment to Finding You Exceptional Candidates
ISM is first and foremost committed to putting qualified candidates in front of you. We seek out the “truly exceptional” rather than the “just satisfactory” so that you can challenge yourselves to be exceptional. We stake our integrity and reputation* on this commitment.
It is in each of our best interests for us to find and qualify candidates for you. We are not in the business of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole or fill an open slot in your organizational chart. Furthermore, we have no connection with office politics that might favor a particular candidate; office politics can jeopardize the opportunity to fill the position with the candidate who will do the best job for you.
Doing our job means that we look through vast databases of candidates in traditional and non-traditional sources and call all – sometimes as many as 100 - potential candidates. We do not send you a stack of these candidates’ resumes, because it is our job to evaluate these individuals, develop a “short list” of well-qualified people that we interview and then come up with the finalists for the position. These finalists are the candidates we will send to you to interview in person. This process allows us to use a wide-angle lens followed by a zoom lens and filter, so that you will interview only the “best shots” - or prospective employees.
We Improve Your Productivity
The experts at ISM are constantly watching and responding to market place needs. We can search our database of talented professionals more quickly than a human resources professional can scan unqualified resumes, which means that we can expediently find a professional who meets your needs. This presents you with two distinct benefits. First of all, we can put the right talent in front of you faster so that you can get on with your business. Secondly, by getting the right person in place faster, you free up the time and talent of your other team members who may be trying to pick up the slack that is not in their area of expertise. When you provide an environment in which everyone can do their job, the productivity of your entire team increases. The sooner you can do this, the sooner you will see this boost in productivity, and ISM has the experience and the experts to facilitate this process for you.
We Increase Your New Hire's Speed-to-Market (Post-Hire Downtime)
We hear companies express frustration with the amount of “downtime” that new hires incur because they are not able to hit the ground running. ISM uses our large talent pool, as well as our experience screening and qualifying potential talent to minimize the “ramp-up time” it takes to get your new hires into the marketplace. While all companies may have specific corporate culture and product training to provide to new hires, we screen our candidates so that you don’t have to allocate critical time and financial resources to months of basic training and orientation. This improves your new hire’s speed-to-market and increases your company’s productivity.
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