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Why Use a Direct Hire Recruiter?

Why Use A Direct Hire Recruiter?

Let’s not beat around the bush – The cost of hiring an employee who isn’t a match for the work “culture” can be detrimental to the bottom line. If you, like most HR employees or hiring managers, are living at this bottom line than heed these words carefully: Use a third party for direct hire.

If that’s not good enough then let’s break it down a little more: If you fail 3 times to hire a direct hire employee for a position that doesn’t require flipping burgers then your hiring manager is going to blame HR. HR is then going to blame the pay rate and the pay rate has no say in the matter. So, regardless of how little you had to do with the “hard cost” of doing business – the blame falls on you.

Wheres the uniform??? This isn't going to work out - call the unemployment attorney

Whether you are a chairman of SHRM (Society of Human Resources Management) or the Director of Direct Hire for a large corporation, medium-sized business or mom-and-pop-shop then you need to understand a very basic principle: Paying 15% of 1 year’s salary to match the perfect job with the perfect candidate is pocket change compared to the cost of paying out three-times the annual salary of an employee that doesn’t pan out.

Sometimes things don't work out for other reasons

The Problem:

The first quarter of 2012 has come to an abrupt end. Many of us in the field of Human Resources are asking ourselves “what the heck just happened.” You know us HR folk, are always underappreciated – and underpaid. The numbers are astounding. The only question you should be asking yourself is: “How am I going to capture the most talented individuals when demand is so high?”

How do you get ahold of the professional and business services sector that has exploded in the past year by 1.2 million? You either better get yourself a really good salesman or AJO Associates.

What are you doing about this?

 

Every Human Resource specialist has been in a position like this:

Hiring Manager: “Hey, Nancy (fictitious name to protect the identity of our HR person): I’m going to need you to fill a position for a direct hire.

Nancy: Sure, what do you have for me?  (Nancy gives a big fake grin)

The hiring manager drops a job description for a direct hire on a pile of unsorted job applications and unread updates on HR regulation changes.

Job Description:

1)      Must be a genius in (­Insert Field Here)

2)      Doctorate in (Insert Field Here)

3)      Fluent in: English, Spanish, Japanese, Sign Language and Pig Latin

4)      Has to be exceptional in:  Sales, Operations, Makreting and a background in engineering

(So Nancy ignores the typo and keeps reading)

5)      At least 125 years of experience in Packaging Science

6)      Must be “polished”

7)      Salary: $15,700

Nancy: (Thinking: LOL) Okay, I’ll check the database and see what I can come up with.

Hiring Manager: I appreciate ya! (Thinking: If she comes up with this one, I’m going to have to promote her).

Hey hiring manager! Nancy has a lot on her plate. Besides having to staff for the new sales training class, retention training class, Marketing Manager (this one should be easy) and Director of Account Management you just dropped this purple squirrel on her desk. Common now, give Nancy a break and call AJO & Associates.     

The Solution:

Regardless of how well established a company may or may not be, no one wants to carry the burden of a sofa on their back – even if it’s IKEA’s light weight sofa, it still takes a toll. Let’s take a glance into the day of recruiter:

8am: Calls from candidates

8:30: Calls hiring managers

9am: Come into work

10am: Geez, is anyone going to ask me how my day is going?

11am: Job Fair announcement

12:00-12:05: Lunch

12:03 – 3:45: (Damn, lunch got interrupted again) Interviews

3:35 – 3:38: Break!

I’ll take a break when I die – or have a mental breakdown

3:38 – 5:00: interviews

 

5:00: Going home… Oh, nope…

5:00 – undetermined: Looking for a Packing Engineer with 125 years of experience , polished, with a Doctorate that speaks pig Latin (Ugh, this is going to be a long night)

In the world of Human Resources the direct hire is always a gamble. Even with advent of the “recruiter.” What you, as a direct hire management needs to do is call AJO Associates.

Not Just Lip Service

5 Suspects in the Slaying of Your Local Newspaper

David Fernandez | Modern Marketing : Newspapers

To all 60 people who read my last article before I decided to scrap it, thanks for the support. I decided that I was a little too harsh on the Florida Times Union because the reality is: All newspapers suck. It’s not an organizational flaw – it’s a byproduct of the technology available to us today.

By the time these newspapers are loaded into the flatbed of a Ford Model-T the news is really the olds. Information is being flooded through electronic devices and recirculated before our morning cup of coffee or based on your bad habits – Bailey’s Irish Cream.

These Newspapers were so ahead of their time - they predicted the future

1)      Newspapers are Murdering the Planet:

Besides the horribly scratchy paper and runny ink, newspapers are an environmentalist’s worst nightmare. In my unjustified quest to rid planet earth of newspapers and add an anti-newspaper character to the Captain Planet cast I decided to do some hard hitting research: How many trees are used to print newspapers? I asked Google. The answer according to the infallible wiki.answers.com is: “somewhere around 1500 to 200,000,000,000,000,000” (I swear I’m not making this up). Uh, okay, so given a +/- of 199 Quadrillion I think we’ve got this narrowed down. If it’s 1,500 trees that explains this:

Hispanola Island: The left is Haiti the right is the Dominican Republic.

There are no borders drawn into this map. This a real overhead view from Google Earth. Can you figure out where the border is? I’m not saying newspapers were responsible for the earthquake in Haiti but some blame must be placed on someone and Marilyn Manson doesn’t make music about earthquakes. The massive landslides killed hundreds of people in the aftermath. The Dominican Republic barely made an evening news appearance.

If the real answer is 200 Quadrillion then this would be a more accurate depiction:

"The shade under this building is so lovely"

2)      Apple IPads and IPhones are Mass-Murderers

The IPad and IPhone killed: Newspapers, commercial-run radio, commercial-run TV, laptop sales, desktop sales, educational toys, all over-priced software on cd’s, writable cd’s,  dumb phones, home phones, Lord Voldemort and is a person of interest in the murders of 2Pac and Notorious BIG.

Apple Introduces the new IMurder App

Accessing information is easier than ever. If the term “any news?” originated from newspapers we may have to recoin the term “any INews?”

3)      Jon Bon Jovi’s Death Murders Newspapers

The news of Jon Bon Jovi’s death was distributed electronically to millions before Bon Jovi woke up that morning. The problem here is that Bon Jovi isn’t dead. As a matter of fact he has less wrinkles then I do and his band was born the same year I was. I thought Bon Jovi was dead for three weeks before I was humiliated by coworkers. The moral to this story: Don’t go buy the discography of a musician before that body is in the ground. Now, I’m stuck with lifetime collections of Eminem, Bon Jovi and 2Pac (who may or may not be in the Bahamas sipping Cristal and Hennessey).

Hair like this never dies

Okay, so if your brain is thinking “silly goose, what are you getting at?” Let me break it down for my tier 2 readers. Did anybody think to themselves “hey, let me check out the newspaper to see if this is true.” No, because newspapers were on the street already and wouldn’t have this breaking news for at least another 24 hours. Plus, Twitter and Facebook are the best source of accurate information and irrelevant passive aggressive quotations.

4)      Speed Murdered Newspapers

We demand information. Do you get mad at your IPhone for taking 20 seconds to load a page because this particular search feels like the most urgent search of your life? Me too but it’s better than the old days – remember Encyclopedia Britannica? So next time you’re arguing with your friends about who has the most #1 selling albums of all-time (not Bon Jovi) think about those Encyclopedia’s sitting on your parents shelf. The same ones that probably don’t have “cellphones” listed in volume 3 page 297.

1990's Bookshelf

21st Century Bookshelf

5)      I Murdered the Newspaper:

Social Media and persistent bloggers (like me) are flooding the internet with massive amounts of wasteful information. Exhibit A: if you search Yahoo! For “working through retirement” my article shows up #2. Granted, anyone working through retirement could use a good laugh and a little encouragement so you won’t get any complaints here.

People like you and I have been complaining about the dreary local news for years. Everything is depressing. An example of your local news: Someone gets murdered, schools are horrible, there’s always a chance of rain and sports account for one-hundredth of the broadcast or newspaper. The Newspapers and broadcasters didn’t listen to the people so we decided to take to the cyber-streets and deliver the news we want.

However nostalgic you may or may not be about newspapers everything is old. Don’t get me wrong, I have a certain spot in heart for Super Mario Bros 3 but would I trade in my PS3 for a Super Nintendo? Nope.  Even this article was past its prime before I hit publish.

What are Newspapers Good For?:

What Newspapers are good for

Dedicated to my faithful supporters: the one’s that even like my crappy articles.

- David Fernandez

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