Recruiting for a role can be stressful, especially when an opening comes out of the blue. Many companies make the mistake of posting a job advert, crossing their fingers, and hoping the ideal candidate walks through the door.
At OSA Recruitment, we work with companies to find the best fit for the team, while also helping candidates land their ideal jobs, using a proactive approach to recruitment.
What is proactive recruitment?
Proactive recruitment is the ultimate power move in the recruitment game. Instead of scrambling to fill a vacancy when it pops up, proactive recruitment allows us to build a pipeline of potential candidates who are not just qualified but absolutely perfect fits for our clients’ requirements, before the need arises.
We believe the best way to predict the future is to create it, and proactive recruitment is our secret sauce to staying one step ahead. It’s like curating a talent pool filled with the crème de la crème of professionals, who are ready to shine when the time is right.
The benefits of proactive recruitment
It takes time to find, interview and review candidates when you’re reactively trying to fill a role fast. Plus, you simply don’t have the time to thoroughly evaluate every candidate because you’re stressed and just need to fill the position as quickly as possible.
Proactive recruitment puts the most qualified candidates in front of you before you need to fill the position, meaning your time-to-hire is dramatically decreased.
By taking a proactive approach to recruiting, you have better control over your hiring process and aren’t bound to the unstable job market.
Our approach
At OSA Recruitment, we use the ‘Define, find, retain model’.
Define – we use our experience and extensive industry data to help you create an effective job description and ensure the structure of your offer is in line with the current market.
Find – in addition to our register of quality candidates, we use our unrivalled marketing and extensive network to seek out exceptional people for you.
Retain – we provide ongoing support to our clients to help them retain the best people. These include industry focused employment trends, legislation updates and relevant pay scales information.
We constantly keep our ears to the ground, scouting industry trends, and networking like there’s no tomorrow. We provide a consultative approach for both clients and candidates, offering insights and advice beyond just job placements. So whether it’s through social media monitoring, attending industry events, conducting our own research, or simply striking up conversations with professionals in our network, we leave no stone unturned in our quest for top-tier talent.
We also use Executive Search, which is the term used for approaching top-level candidates who may not be immediately identifiable in the market.
Since 2007, our Chairman Nick Graham has maintained an independent register of Non-Executive Directors with Guernsey-based individuals from diverse backgrounds. The NED Register sits comfortably alongside other successful methods of recruiting and appointing a NED.
Our proactive approach to recruitment has resulted in trusted relationships with our clients, many of whom return to us time and time again as their businesses grow and they have new positions to fill.
Building long-term relationships
Proactive recruitment isn’t just about playing matchmaker between talents and opportunities – it’s about building relationships, nurturing connections, and championing talent development every step of the way.
As a market-leading recruitment business with almost 40 years’ experience, we have forged many long-term relationships within our industry – with business owners, decision makers and HR teams. We pride ourselves on being informed on all matters relating to the Guernsey recruitment market and provide an extensive range of HR Support Services.
We invest time in developing a fundamental understanding of your business and your vision and values. That way we can identify potential candidates whose own values align with those of the business, rather than taking the scatter gun approach to CV distribution.
Our matching process therefore helps to ensure a long-term successful hire. And we’ve got an impressive track record – for every two CVs we submit to a client, one is selected for interview.
Let us proactively recruit for you
Using the approaches laid out above, we can provide our clients with better quality candidates, reduced staff turnover, time and cost savings, strategic hiring, as well as access to market insights.
And for candidates, it provides a personalised service, market visibility, and career development support.
Talk to us about how we can help you through proactive recruitment.
