Let’s face it: hiring is a daunting task.

With various competing job search platforms, hundreds of possible applicants, and limited time to find the right candidate, leading an internal job search can feel like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Unless you have an in-house HR team member to lean on for support and guidance, seeking an upper management applicant to join your team is a responsibility that is guaranteed to pull energy and resources from your other projects and initiatives. 

The average time it takes to hire a new employee, according to the Society for Human Resource Management, is 36 days. Essentially, that’s over 800 hours that could be spent elsewhere. Without support - whether from an internal HR professional or expert recruiter - you are guaranteed to spend weeks seeking out, vetting, and onboarding a new hire. And, if the hiring process is rushed or incomplete, the end result may be unsatisfactory, leading to internal challenges, lackluster work, or even a quicker turnover rate. The last thing you want to do following a hiring decision is to have to go through the process again in just a few short months.

With the help of a professional recruiter, your internal hiring processes can be streamlined, increasing the overall efficiency of your search as well as cutting down on the amount of time that is required from you to actively engage with the search at hand. By relinquishing the responsibility to an expert, hiring a new upper-level executive can become an enjoyable, productive experience. Imagine that!

According to Finances Online, organizations have five top priorities when it comes to recruiting: 

1. Sourcing candidates directly

2. Building a talent pool for the future

3. Investing in tools to speed up hiring

4. Establishing a strong employee drive

5. Succession planning

Luckily, recruiters can meet these priorities while ultimately saving the company time and money that would otherwise be wasted on a new hire that wasn’t an ideal fit for the job or larger company culture. At Shaw Search Partners, our recruiting process focuses on three key components:

Hiring is an Investment

SSP operates with the understanding that hiring a new employee (particularly for an upper management position) is an investment. Companies are seeking highly qualified candidates that will grow within the organization. To ensure longevity, the expectations and goals of both the candidate and company need to align. Our goal is to find our clients candidates that will invest in their role and intend to build a legacy within the company in question.

Time is Money!

Hiring is costly - both in time and money. Shaw Search Partners invests in tactics to source candidates directly. We don’t wait for our candidates to find us - we find them! By relying on modern hiring practices as well as a vast professional network, SSP seeks candidates that would best fit a client’s open position. No time is wasted.

The Right Candidate Is Out There

At Shaw Search Partners, we believe that the perfect candidate is out there waiting for our clients. Candidates that are ultimately the wrong fit for either the position or organization will not meet our client’s longevity, output, or leadership expectations. For this reason, we invest in the interview process, conducting long and thorough interviews with behavioral-based questions to gain valuable and more complex insights. We dig beyond their immediate professional successes to discover how a candidate truly ticks. In some ways, being a recruiter is like being a matchmaker between candidates and clients. For us to meet our goal, we need to find the perfect fit for both parties. 

Hiring is never easy, but the ultimate outcome can be rewarding and, when done correctly, improve a company’s culture, increase productivity and quality of work, and positively impact overall profits. Seeking assistance in the hiring process will result in a better candidate pool and a more efficient vetting process, resulting in the best fit possible. 

Ready to learn more about working with Shaw Search Partners? Contact us today.