When Do I Recruit?

“The number one rule is never leave it too late, and don’t panic!  Planning your next hire is key to building a successful team.  Recruiting the wrong person can impact the rest of the team more than you think.  Negativity breathes negativity, and one bad apple can create another.”

So when do you recruit?  Clearly you need a business plan for growth, but having the right people foundations in place gives you confidence and reassurance to grow further.  People are everything in a business; without good people you don’t have a business.

We have some key questions here on this page to help you identify what you really need when you are thinking about hiring another person or a team.  These questions will help you to ensure you hire the right person first time, however, having expertise to search the market for you like Gotcha’s method (they are able to offer a structured proactive approach with feedback and knowledge of what’s happening in your industry) guarantees your success.

Trusting your team and letting go empowers them to develop and take on more responsibility, which in turn releases you to do what you are good at…whether this is meeting clients, focusing on the numbers, training current staff or even looking at acquisitions to improve brand awareness and scope within the market.

Standard agencies aren’t able to offer your company the time needed to proactively hunt the market, as they are targeted to how many vacancies they get in, how many company visits they have, how many interviews are arranged and how many interviews are attended.  This recruitment method is non-committal and very much a “scatter-gun” approach with the hope they get ‘the’ candidate respond to their advert and, in theory, what you could do yourself if you have the time and experience in recruitment.

So, planning is planning in advance; knowing exactly what knowledge/skills or experience gaps you need covering.  Advance thinking and engaging with the right recruiter at least two and half months before, will relieve you from the panic of overspending and getting it wrong.

Be cautious – ensure you get references from the recruiter or use a referred recruitment company because they come with recommendation; they may work differently to what you are used to, but change is good leveraging your business, risk is eliminated as you feel assured by a friend or associate, and you save money as you will be guaranteed results.