Are recruitment agencies really worth the fee?

When you’re in a senior position in any business – whether it’s yours or someone else’s – there will always be people contacting you to offer their services. Do you want someone to improve the SEO on your marketing campaigns? Is your website up to scratch? Would you like to outsource your telephone services so you’re not having to respond to calls while on the move?

Whatever you need, there’s someone out there prepared to supply it – for a fee. But how do you know which services are worth paying for?

When it comes to recruitment services, you may remember being contacted by agencies who have seen a job advert you’ve placed on your website, or on LinkedIn, and who have the absolute best candidate ready and waiting to transform your business… only to be disappointed when they fail to deliver what they promised.

The recruitment sector has unfortunately had a bad reputation in the past, with some rogue companies offering a poor service that has tainted the more professional businesses who work closely in partnership with their clients.

So, why is it worth investing your hard-earned profits in an executive search firm like SOS?

SOS is a bespoke executive headhunting agency that specialises in placing excellent candidates in the building products industry and beyond. Unlike the larger, more generic recruitment agencies, our team all have specific experience working in and around the construction sector, so we understand the quirks of the industry and exactly what type of candidates will thrive – not just survive – in the roles we help them achieve.

Engaging SOS to find your next Director, Business Development Manager or Technical Sales Engineer will save you time and money because we have an extensive, ready-made database of thousands of experienced building professionals who work across every sector of the industry.

Yes, if you’ve also been in the industry for a long time you may know some of these people as well, but we speak with them regularly and we know the type of work they’re currently doing, what they’re looking for in their next role, their salary expectations and the type of business they would be best suited to work in.

So, rather than spend your precious time calling dozens of your own contacts trying to fill the role, or endlessly uploading job adverts to all the websites you can find, instead just tell us who you’re looking for, and we’ll do all the hard work for you.

Our up-to-date contact database is filled with people we know, in many cases who we’ve worked with in the past, and we will search through our contacts and deliver you details of a select group of high-quality, tailored candidates, all of whom would be an asset to your business. Otherwise, you may still receive many job applications from advertising directly – potentially hundreds of them, in fact – but you will then have to take the time to sort through each one of them to find the gems among the crowd.

Let us scour the industry finding exactly the right fit for your business – so you don’t have to.

For more information about SOS Executive search, visit www.sosexecutivesearch.co.uk or call 07815 009 524.