Step by Step guide to your Recruitment Business
Becoming a recruiter is always challenging because it is two-fold the efforts.
1) Sales - Find clients looking for candidates.
2) Sourcing - Provide clients with candidates.
Some basic considerations:
Attitude: Need a positive attitude and it is a very target based process. Need to be friendly to all
job seekers and clients.
Attention to details: Get a full understanding of the job requirements. Need to understand key points of the role, like, maximum and minimum experience, sponsorship considerations, primary and secondary skills, relocations etc.
Network: Start creating a good network in various offline and online mediums.
Let’s start with the recruitment business.
1) Get yourself registered.
If you are an independent recruiter and wants to start with your business, the first of all start with business registration. Your name also depends on your online presence. If you already have a business entity, then go to step 2.
Try getting a business name which is closer to your business niche and see if any matching website domain name is also available. Go to either GoDaddy
or any domain registering a website and search for available names and then you can come up with a good business name.
Try to include keywords like recruitment, staffing, consulting which can specify your business.
2) Get a website for your business.
If you already have a professional website, then go to step 3.
Based on your business name, buy a domain from any known website domain providers like
www.namecheap.com or
www.godaddy.com . Once you have bought the domain
, then try to get a professional website for your business.
You can get it done by affordable designers.
3) Set up basic infrastructure, tax, and insurance.
For tax and insurance, you can connect with local agencies. We need basic infrastructure,
like a phone number or skype with which you can make many calls. Check for the providers with these details.
4) Search for tasks.
Now you have your basic setup done, we need to start for tasks.
Register yourself in recruitment marketplace and start searching for initial gigs.
Try in below sites:
After registration, try to work on a few jobs from few of these sites which matches your niche or expertise.
There may be some spams, or fake jobs in these marketplaces to attract user logins but try to have a positive attitude and you can get your first client from here.
Try to promote these job requirements and get candidates for these.
5) Get membership from Jobisite
Jobisite offers membership for recruiters which is free to try for one month and then very minimal charges. Using this service, you can get access to full premium job ads posting and resume access. It is known to be popular among startup recruiters and very beneficial for them. Try registering in www.jobisite.com and then go to : https://www.jobisite.com/employeePremium.htm
6) Promote job requirements
If you have good budget, then you can register in various paid job boards, otherwise, we can use below job boards which allows free option also.
Start with just few and post job vacancies and try to get candidates from here.
7) Go Soacially
Create Facebook and Linkedin pages and twitter account where in you can promote your job roles. Create google plus and some wordpress blogs.
Register in https://ifttt.com/ and connect your social accounts here and create recipes to automate your content.For example ,connect your facebook page with twitter , so whenever you tweet, it posts in facebook also.
Create whatsapp groups with other vendors and recruiters. You can find them in linkedin posts in most of the recruiter groups.
Create email groups with other vendors and recruiters. You can find them in linkedin posts in most of the recruiter groups.
You can again use ifttt to automate everything.
8) Find job seekers online.
Posting to job boards is referred to as passive technique. One can start searching for candidates online also.
The list may be irrelevant many a times as it doesn't have job seekers who are actively looking but a good one to create your network.
Some sites allows to search resume online
Some more sites for free resume
9) Find Resume
Below are search strings to be used in google. Just change the job title with keywords like "Customer service", "Nurse", "web developer".
Pick one by one keyword and try the below string one by one.. Go for 20-30 links .. you will find email address and then contact him. You can use gmail/yahoo email for sending email.
10) Inbound traffic for jobs: Promote your online presence/Online Marketing
a) Write blogs/useful topics related to hiring/technology frequently
Content length: A good blog has around 700-800 words length
Create catchy headlines
You can use online sites for generating good titles
You can put a subject related to career. Like cover letters, resume, interview, jobs, education, employment, technology etc
Select any good title.
Google some content for that blog/topics and research on that.
b) Submit to business directories
As part of online presence, we can submit our website to various directories online.
Seodirectoryonline.org
Usawebsitesdirectory.com
Seoseek.net
Linkroo.com
Allstatesusadirectory.com
Hydeparkbooks.com
Freedirectorysubmit.com
Alistdirectory.com
1abc.org
Gmawebdirectory.com
Galyeannursery.com
Digitaleveuk.org
Deeplinksdirectory.co
Dondir.com
Contenteurope.com
Callyourcountry.com
11) Shortlist Candidates
Now we have received many candidates, the process will be to shortlist them. Try Zoho or any free tool for candidate management. You can call them to get an initial check of their skills. This also can be outsourced or you can find a few gigs where people are offering these services.
There are many websites which allow creating online question papers and can help in initial skill check round. One can also speed up initial check with using google forms for getting resumes where users get shortlisted based on experience, skills, conditions.
