The structure of the recruitment industry is fundamentally Flawed, and both clients and job seekers are losing out. Scan the employment classifieds in any newspaper and it appears that recruitment companies have a pretty tight stranglehold on the talent on
offer. Correct? Not so.
Many organizations have long been persuaded by recruiters that engaging a recruitment firm is the only effective way to find the talent they need in a market that is suffering from a (perceived) skill shortage and shrinking labour pool. What they are failing to identify, however, are two huge pools of talent that continue to go largely unnoticed, mothers with young children and older, semi-retired workers.
It is, however, this very talk of dwindling labour and skills shortages that continues to detract the criticism away from the ‘supposed experts’ who manage the search and selection process on behalf of many leading organizations. The way in which recruitment firms currently operate hinders. More info on job recruitment can be found at : Abacus Recruitment Solutions.