It’s all about timing

As any great comic over the centuries will tell you, the secret to great comedy is in the timing. Whether that’s Chaplin or Connolly, it’s usually the pauses and interruptions that make joke or the tall tale work.

In some respects recruitment is no different. It does not matter which side of the table you are on, the ability to hit the perfect moment is an art form, but just as the ability to tell the perfect joke needs planning and practice, so the ability to deliver the perfect candidate needs planning at the outset.

The place to start is the start date! That of course is the day that you want the candidate to start and then to work backwards through the process, ours and yours, until you reach the ideal date to start the assignment. Unfortunately experience over many years tells us that inevitably once you have mapped out that process you will find that you should have started quite a while before you actually did.

We have a number of key client relationships that work because we meet for half an hour three or four times a year, even or especially when they’re not recruiting, for a catch up with their line managers and the HR team. As a consequence, when the client does sign off an assignment we are already ahead of the game because the dialogue has enabled us to update target lists and to understand the ethos behind the recruitment.

If you would like to be one step ahead of the game and more importantly your competitors then please feel free to have an informal discussion with one of our director. www.intersearchuk.com