Insight RECRUITMENT
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO USE A CASINO RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT ?
UKCasinoChecker’s Paul Sculpher asks a rhetorical question as he and Steve Jackson launch a new recruitment service
Why would you want to use a recruitment consultant? Well, that’s a pretty pertinent question for me to ask myself at the moment, given that I’ve just gone into business with Steven Jackson, a well known gaming recruitment specialist in the UK, to form Gaming Recruitment Solutions.
I’m fairly new to the recruitment side of things, although I’ve been involved in the gaming industry for 20 years or more, and I’ve used recruitment services before – in fact Steven, in his previous employment, as the last guy I used. Already in our new venture, we’ve come across some people who simply don’t see the point of paying someone to find their management when they feel they can do it themselves.
While I must say I (obviously) don’t agree with this point of view – I was more than happy to bring in help when I was outside the recruitment sector – the benefits are worth underlining. It’s fair to say that I thought the recruitment consultant’s job was pretty straightforward – use your network to get tasked with filling vacancies, and then use your extended network to find people who can fit the bill, put them forward, and Bingo! Send out your commission invoice.
Not surprisingly, the reality is quite a bit more complex. In practice, your personal network is nowhere near wide enough, more or less whoever you are, to get close to a decent selection of people for any given role. The extended network, combined with careful research, will get you part of the way to being able to present a good range of candidates to the client, and the more senior the role, often the more this relies on pretty deep-dive research to get the right calibre of people, particularly in roles where the client wants to interview people from outside the industry in question to provide a new perspective. We are critically also in a position to talk to people who aren’t strictly seeking new employment, with discretion, of course, assured.
Sourcing a suitable range of candidates to present is by no means the end of the story. At GRS we
It’s often said that people love
their friends, but they wouldn’t want them running their
business, and if a prospective employer only looks within
their own network there’s a danger of doing exactly this.
wouldn’t dream of sending a CV out to a client without speaking to the candidate first – something our big-chain recruitment competitors most certainly cannot claim – and at this stage we will often determine people aren’t suitable for the role, either by determining they don’t fit the profile in some way, or by our own intuition. Our reputation is critical, so we don’t want to waste anyone’s time. From there we’ll re-format the CV (it makes it easier for clients to weigh CVs against each other if the formatting is similar for all) and send them out. That’s a lot easier than employers screening through huge quantities of CVs, many of which are totally unsuitable, or have unrealistic expectations of the job.
From here there’s still plenty of work to do, as there are interviews to arrange and prepare for, and it’s not unknown of course for us to have to
start again, research from scratch, and send another batch of CVs through – all part of the service. We only get paid if we find the right person for the job, and if the person turns out to be a poor fit after all this and multiple interviews, we’ll provide a replacement free of charge.
There’s also the issue of just using your own network – it’s often said that people love their friends, but they wouldn’t want them running their business, and if a prospective employer only looks within their own network there’s a danger of doing exactly this.
Doesn’t that sound like enough input, from a prospective employer’s point of view, to bring in professional specialists and swerve all the hard work? We do our job, so that you can get on with yours.
Steven Jackson and Paul Sculpher have launched their recruitment consultancy, Gaming Recruitment Solutions –
ww.grs-recruit.com – and are placing people throughout the offline and online gaming industry, as well as for suppliers and other affiliated industry stakeholders.
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