5 reasons your Company should utilize a recruiter, regardless of the market conditions:

1) YOU’RE TOO BIG! Generally speaking, the bigger the organization, more it tends to extend the process, due to logistical issues, internal policies, etc. Two examples:

Candidates don’t care how ‘family friendly’ your page about organizational happiness and all things touchy-feely is, if I'm unable to make a human connection ala request from a faceless corporate entity to their database ~ OR ~ Senior level role and to prevent aforementioned faceless entity issues from above, contact is made via a human being. Just one question: are they on the same level?  Probably not. The folks that usually get handed these assignments are usually <2-3 years experience out of college. Not the person I want talking to a potential decision maker within the organization.

This can actually be WORSE than previous example.

2) YOU’RE TOO SMALL! Generally speaking, the smaller the organization, the easier it is to expedite this process. However, it’s not atypical to miss CRITICAL steps that won’t appear during the ‘honeymoon’ stage.  BTW, do you have ANY idea how time consuming this process will be? Probably not.

Just who do YOU want advocating your organization in the market? Choose your resources wisely

3) Cost Effectiveness ~ In most cases, this is a contingency environment.  This means, the recruiting resources are deployed on the front end and it doesn't cost the company a nickel until they decide to hire someone. That sounds pretty cost effective to me.

4) They know and have access to people that you don't… (It’s not nearly as important who you know, as who knows you)

5) They can help you facilitate and/or improve your process? Not sure you need it? Answer these questions and then decide:

> Do they (Employee & Company) have defined criteria of ‘success’ in the role? Do both have a clear understanding of the benchmarks on the path to achieving said benchmarks, i.e., goals and objectives?

>  What's the road map look like? Expected obstacles?

>   Do both understand how this will be monitored and/or incentivized?

>   What are the consequences of NOT meeting these expectations?

~BECAUSE~

If you can’t define it, you can’t monitor it.

If you can’t monitor it, you can’t measure it.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.