What's Your Recruitment Model?


Recruitment model impacts your business success. Are you hiring agencies with 'contingency' or a 'flat fee' or 'retainer' model? Following are some tips to consider.

Why Retainer?


Best suited when: 1. Needing a full-cycle recruitment service 2. When short of in-house recruiter or require extra help with very complex roles 3. Need high quality candidate and wanting to work very closely with recruiter 4. Prefer very few recruiters for quality-focused approach and providing exclusivity to them

When Contingency?


Best suited when: 1. Requiring additional source of candidates 2. Tight budget 3. Prefer multiple agencies 4. Time shortage & bulk resume requirement 5. Prefer quantity over quality 6. Okay to risk company image with too many recruiters 7. Hoping to get lucky for right candidates

Or Flat Rate?


Best suited when: 1. Need specific tasks only (e.g. sourcing or pre-screening or branding) 2. Multiple similar roles to fill 3. Not having your in-house recruiter or processes 4. Contingency fee is beyond budget or hard to set 5. Need recruiters for role definition and various processes